Twelfth night, or, What you will
(DVD)

Originally broadcast on television in 1988.

Special features: Timeline of William Shakespeare's life and plays ; Inside an Illyrian winter : an interview with director Kenneth Branagh.

Design, Bunny Christie ; costume supervisor, Susan Coates ; music composed & conducted by Pat Doyle ; "Come away death" adapted from Paul McCartney's "Once upon a long ago" ; casting executive, Elizabeth Sadler ; costume designer, Lyn Harvey ; make-up designer, Angela Seyfang ; graphic designer, Ruth Bribram ; videotape editor, Richard Halladey ; designer, Robert Ide.

Frances Barber (Viola), Tim Barker (Sea captain, Antonio), Christopher Ravenscroft (Orsino), Christopher Hollis (Curio, Sebastian), Julian Gartside (Valentine), James Saxon (Sir Toby Belch), Abigail McKern (Maria), James Simmons (Sir Andrew Aguecheek), Anton Lesser (Feste), Caroline Langrishe (Olivia), Richard Briers (Malvolia), Shaun Prendergast (Fabian).

After a shipwreck, twin siblings Viola and Sebastian wash up on the shores of Illyria. Viola, disguised as a man named Cesario, takes up service with the Duke Orsino, who is madly in love with the Lady Olivia. But Olivia is in mourning over her brother's death, so Orsino sends Cesario over as an emissary of love, except that Olivia falls for Viola!

DVD format; region 1; Dolby Digital stereo.