Their loss, and Geoffrey Rush would have to wait a little longer to become an international name. Off air time: 1’58”16 (excluding Roadshow logo)Ĭonsidering that the film was a record of a much seen stage play, and was released at a time when there were other performances of Twelfth Night happening on Australian stages, it was perhaps unsurprising that the Film Victoria report on Australian box office records only $201,302 returns at the turnstile, equivalent to $404,617 in A$ 2099.ĭavid Stratton in The Avocado Plantation mourns that the film “deserved to be better marketed than it was”, but it was always unlikely that the international marketplace would be interested in a cheerfully Australian version of Shakespeare’s play. Running time: 117 minutes (Murray’s Australian Film) 120 mins (David Stratton’s The Avocado Plantation, Cinema Papers) Rating: G (television) Murray’s Australian Film lists the rating as PG. Video release: Murray’s Australian Film lists no commercial tape release - however the film was released on tape for schools via the AFI, and this could at one time be accessed through the Australian library system Theatrical release: the film was released in Sydney at GUO’s Pitt Centre, on 21st May 1987, other states at later times.
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Anyone who would like to have some of this expensive sand FREE for their garden or seed-raising mix, should ring the production secretary…” So 10BA financing helped the gardeners of Sydney.Īccording to the Herald, 15th May, 1987 it was a three week shoot. It’s possible to establish that filming finished shortly afterwards in August 1985 because of a note in the Sydney Morning Herald on 18th August 1985 advising that 18 tonnes of white propagating sand, “used this weekend for the film Twelfth Night in Balmain… now has to be cleared away. Locations: the film was shot entirely in the Bijou Theatre, Balmainįilmed: According to Cinema Papers, September 1985, shooting began on the 5th August 1987. $600,000 (newspaper reports) Murray’s Australian Film puts the budget at $590,000 Cinema Papers’ September 1985 production survey provides the impossibly precise figure of $591,400 Made with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission (the AFC invested in the non-deductibles under 10BA).īudget: c. Production company: no head production presentation credit on VHS or television release copies tail credit copyrights to Twelfth Night Pty. (This synopsis is derived from the Folger site, here, which provides a copy of the play, much more documentation, and many of Shakespeare's other plays). Malvolio, blaming Olivia and others for his humiliation, vows revenge. When, finally, Sebastian and Viola appear together, the puzzles around the mistaken identities are solved: Cesario is revealed as Viola, Orsino asks for Viola’s hand, Sebastian will wed Olivia, and Viola will marry Count Orsino. Olivia, meanwhile, mistakes Sebastian for Cesario and declares her love. When Viola, as Cesario, is challenged to a duel, Antonio mistakes her for Sebastian, comes to her aid, and is arrested. In the meantime, Sebastian has been rescued by a sea captain, Antonio.
Malvolio is tricked into making a fool of himself, and he is locked in a dungeon as a lunatic. A confrontation between Olivia's steward, Malvolio, and the partying Toby and his cohort leads to a revenge plot against Malvolio.
Viola, in the meantime, has fallen in love with Orsino.Īt the estate of Lady Olivia, Sir Toby Belch, Olivia’s kinsman, has brought in Sir Andrew Aguecheek to be her suitor. Viola goes into service with Count Orsino of Illyria, disguised as a young man, "Cesario." Orsino sends Cesario to woo the Lady Olivia on his behalf, but Olivia falls in love with Cesario. Twelfth Night - an allusion to the night of festivity preceding the Christian celebration of the Epiphany - combines love, confusion, mistaken identities, and joyful discovery.Īfter the twins Sebastian and Viola survive a shipwreck, neither knows that the other is alive. (Note: this is a short synopsis of Shakespeare's play - for a synopsis of the way the film presents the play, with character details and spoilers, see the bottom of this site's 'about the movie' section).
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