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Featuring Helena Bonham-Carter, Toby Stephens and Ben Kingsley, Trevor Nunn\'s brings us his adaptation of William Shakespeare\'s classic comedy. A plot packed full of both comic and tragic mistaken identities begins after a ship carrying identical twins is wrecked off the coast of the fictional land of Illyria. Viola (Imogen Stubbs) is convinced her brother Sebastian (Steven Mackintosh) is dead. Soon Viola learns that she isnear the home of a young countess who is also in mourning. Accordingly, Olivia has sworn to have no contact with men for seven years, and in particular she is rejecting the amorous advances of the young Duke Orsino. Desperate to know how to survive, and to keep the spirit of her twin brother alive, Viola decides to disguise herself as a boy. She transforms herself into \"Cesario,\" enters into the house of Orsino and is soon sent to woo Olivia on the Duke\'s behalf.
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