TWELFTH NIGHT

Released by Renaissance Films in 1996, DVD, colour, cert U, feature length 128 minutes, condition very good

Adapted by director Trevor Nunn from William Shakespeare's play, Twelfth Night stars Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E Grant, Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley, Mel Smith, Imelda Staunton, Toby Stephens and Imogen Stubbs.

The most haunting of comedies, Twelfth Night tells the story of identical twins, Viola and Sebastian, shipwrecked off the coast of mysterious Illyria, both believing the other is dead. Viola dresses in her brother's clothes for protection in a strange land. Sebastian, now identical in appearance to the 'boy' Viola, is soon mistaken for his sister, and so the misunderstandings begin...