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Long-lost twins Sebastian (Nate Santana) and Viola (Rebecca Hurd) reunite at last in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s abridged production of Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Night, adapted and directed by Kirsten Kelly, presented for the public on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. now through April 9, 2016 in CST’s Courtyard Theater. Photo by Chuck Osgood.

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The company brings new meaning to the phrase, “if music be the food of love, play on” in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s abridged production of Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Night, adapted and directed by Kirsten Kelly, presented for the public on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. now through April 9, 2016 in CST’s Courtyard Theater. Photo by Chuck Osgood.

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Viola (Rebecca Hurd) rebuffs Olivia’s (Krystel Lucas, at right) romantic advances for Cesario in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s abridged production of Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Night, adapted and directed by Kirsten Kelly, presented for the public on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. now through April 9, 2016 in CST’s Courtyard Theater. Photo by Chuck Osgood.

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Disguised as a young page named “Cesario,” Viola (Rebecca Hurd) becomes the close confidant of the lovesick Duke Orsino (Neal Moeller) in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s abridged production of .Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Night, adapted and directed by Kirsten Kelly, presented for the public on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. now through April 9, 2016 in CST’s Courtyard Theater. Photo by Chuck Osgood.

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Malvolio (La Shawn Banks) is ecstatic to receive what he believes to be a love letter from Olivia—though it is actually a plot for revenge hatched by Maria (Lydia Berger Gray), Sir Toby Belch (Ronald Conner) and Sir Andrew (Dominic Conti) in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s abridged production of Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Night, adapted and directed by Kirsten Kelly, presented for the public on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. now through April 9, 2016 in CST’s Courtyard Theater. Photo by Chuck Osgood.

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Malvolio (La Shawn Banks), decked out in garters and yellow stockings, offers himself to his bewildered mistress Olivia (Krystel Lucas) in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s abridged production of Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Night, adapted and directed by Kirsten Kelly, presented for the public on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. now through April 9, 2016 in CST’s Courtyard Theater. Photo by Chuck Osgood.

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La Shawn Banks as Malvolio in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's newly abridged production of Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Night, adapted and directed by Kirsten Kelly, part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago with public performances on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. March 5–April 9, 2016. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

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