Stylish and surprisingly sexy, in the style of a Pierre et Gilles photograph or a Jean Paul Gaultier perfume ad, Owen Horsley’s production leans heavily into the themes of sexual and gender confusion in Shakespeare’s play. His staging is witty and seductive, only marred by an almost willful lack of pace.
Here, Raphael Bushay’s bluff and uncomfortable Count Orsino, white-uniformed as an officer and a gentleman, goes to woo the lady Olivia (Anna Francolini) not at her house but at the smoky, nautical-themed, midcentury-modern gay club that bears her name, where she is patron and doyenne.
