TWELFTH NIGHT
National Theatre at Home, 7:00 p.m. ET
SPECIAL PREMIERE: For a month now, England’s National Theatre has presented, on its website and on its own YouTube channel, weekly special treats for people shut in by the pandemic. (In the U.K., of course, but we also get to share in the benefits here in the U.S.) Every Thursday at midnight, National Theatre At Home presents, for seven days, a televised stage production from its archives. And since we’re five hours behind London in terms of time zones, we get access to the same TV treat, here on the East Coast of the U,S., starting each Thursday at 7 p.m. ET. And tonight’s a real treat indeed: Twelfth Night, the Shakespeare comedy that, in this production, stars Tamsin Greig, who was so consistently funny, yet endearing, as the screenwriting wife in Showtime’s sitcom Episodes. Here, she takes on the role of Malvolio – adapted, in this production, with a gender switch that has her portraying Malvolia. Phoebe Cox (pictured with Greig) is featured as Olivia – a role that is not, incidentally, rewritten as Olivio.