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Article: Twelfth Night. (Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York City, NY)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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* Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York City * Written by William Shakespeare * Directed by Nicholas Hytner * Starring Helen Hunt, Paul Rudd, Kyra Sedgwick, Philip Bosco, and David Patrick Kelly
Director Nicholas Hytner has said in interviews that his production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night continues the theme of unrequited love he explored in his film The Object of My Affection. What he was shyer about saying was that the production also investigates the stone slipperiness of sexual identity that figured heavily in the film, which was based on Stephen McCauley's comic novel about a gay man and his female roommate. In any case Hytner has ...