What if heaven and hell were separated by a dancefloor?

Shakespeare's wildest comedy comes to life this October in a production that dares to ask where the sacred ends and the sinful begins.Twelfth Night — reimagined. The nave of a church. The pulse of a nightclub. Two worlds that have no business existing side by side, pressed together until something gives. Viola washes ashore into a world at war with itself. Orsino drowns his longing in bass and candlelight. Malvolio's rigid piety crumbles under the weight of his own desire. And somewhere between the altar and the strobe light, love makes fools of everyone.

This is Shakespeare for now — timeless language, urgent questions. What do we worship? What do we shame? And who gets to decide what counts as sin?

The King of Shakespeare returns once more as Arron Evans invites you to become part of the very pulse of the production where the Bard’s work will flow through you like music and every corner of the Theatre is teeming with life and magic in our boldest re-imagining of Shakespeare yet.

Come and join us for auditions

When - 29th July 2026

Where - Vision Arts. Cartlett, Haverfordwest

Time - 7:30pm - 10:00pm

CHARACTERS:

VIOLA
Playing age: 20–28 | Gender: Female
A survivor who reinvents herself to stay afloat. She moves between both worlds with an instinct for adaptation — never quite belonging to either, but understood by everyone she meets.

ORSINO
Playing age: 28–38 | Gender: Male
The nightclub's brooding figurehead — all atmosphere and longing, addicted to the feeling of desire more than its object. He mistakes intensity for love and commands a room without truly connecting with anyone in it.

OLIVIA
Playing age: 25–35 | Gender: Female
A woman of the church, rooted in grief and ritual, who finds herself undone by an unexpected attraction. Her faith has kept her controlled — but control, it turns out, was only ever one good distraction away from collapse.

SEBASTIAN
Playing age: 20–28 | Gender: Male
Viola's twin brother — her mirror and her opposite. Where she is cautious, he is instinctive. He arrives into this world as an outsider and is immediately claimed by it.

MALVOLIO
Playing age: 35–55 | Gender: Male (or any)
The church's self-appointed guardian of propriety, whose contempt for sin masks a profound hunger for status and desire. His downfall is the production's darkest comedy — and its most uncomfortable truth.

MARIA
Playing age: 25–40 | Gender: Female
Sharp, irreverent, and several steps ahead of everyone else in the room. She engineers Malvolio's humiliation with the precision of someone who has been underestimated her entire life.

SIR TOBY BELCH
Playing age: 38–55 | Gender: Male
A creature of the nightclub in every sense — loud, chaotic, and unexpectedly tender underneath the excess. He uses revelry to avoid reckoning, and he's very good at it.

SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK
Playing age: 25–45 | Gender: Male
Toby's willing accomplice and accidental fool — a man who has mistaken the company of louder people for friendship. More pathos than he appears, if you look closely enough.

FESTE
Playing age: 25–45 | Gender: Any
The production's wild card — equally at home in the church and the club, belonging fully to neither. He moves through both worlds as observer and provocateur, speaking truth in the language of performance.

ANTONIO
Playing age: 30–45 | Gender: Male
A man defined by his devotion to Sebastian — fierce, loyal, and reckless because of it. In a world obsessed with sin, his love is the most openly declared and the most dangerously exposed.

FABIAN
Playing age: 25–40 | Gender: Any
A background presence who steps forward at key moments — part of the nightclub's inner circle, complicit in the mischief and quietly enjoying every second of it.

VALENTINE & CURIO
Playing age: 20–35 | Gender: Any
Orsino's attendants — satellites in his orbit, existing to serve his emotional world. Can be doubled or played as a duo with a strong physical dynamic.

THE SEA CAPTAIN

Playing age: 35–55 | Gender: Male (or any)

The first person Viola encounters after the wreck — a steady, grounded presence caught between two worlds he didn't choose. He belongs to neither the church nor the club, and that outsider clarity makes him the most honest voice in the opening of the play.

All ages are only a playing age guide and for the most part the director is open to discuss gender and age changes at audition.