An Appalachian Twelfth Night

A Gem of A Cast Recording from the Critically Acclaimed Production

     

“It's a toe-tapping, laugh-spreading good time!” -LA Times Critic's Choice "The best adaptation of 12th Night I've ever seen!" - Julio Martinez (Variety) “Foot-stomping showstopper. Couldn't be better!” - Backstage West “Lusty original folk tunes. Devastating straightforwardness” - CurtainUp.com Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Nominee for Best Musical Direction Original Cast recording of the hit play with original arrangements by music maestro, Rob Kendt. Robert L. Williams' original adaptation stunned and delighted Los Angeles audiences aligning rich, traditional mountain music with the poetry of Shakespearean verse. Setting Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in an isolated coal-mining town in the thirties, it incorporates an Appalachian Band "Rev. Karl and the Pikeville Pickers" drawing from the traditional folk music handed down from the Elizabethan Ancestors of the mountain dwellers.