Coviello, an out of work comic actor, has got a job as servant and tour guide to the famous  English poet William Shakespeare, who is holidaying in Italy. Pushing a cart laden with luggage and Shakespeare’s holiday souvenirs, Coviello has an hour or two to spare as he waits for his master in the market place. After preparing himself a bowl of spaghetti, Coviello takes the manuscript for Shakespeare’s new play and begins to read. Before long people gather round and Coviello decides to entertain them by playing all the characters of Twelfth Night himself! But his performance is interrupted by a series of comic mishaps. Coviello’s troubles are only just beginning...

Coviello puts the finishing touches to his master's manuscript

"I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered"

Set in Italy in 1601, this show has a colourful style reflecting the popular Italian theatrical form of Commedia dell’Arte.

Adapted  by Matthew Pegg
Ages 7 plus
Running time 60 - 80 minutes

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