In a British touring show of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" that I saw in Toledo, Ohio, in the late 1990s, the stage was empty but for a table and several chairs, and the six actors wore hats to distinguish the roles they played. One brilliantactress, whose name I don't know, played the estranged twins Viola and Sebastian in the same clothes but different hats. When the two are finally reunited at the end of the play, she faced the audience, hatless, and turned her head from one side to the other to distinguish the characters, and the audience learned that she had been speaking the roles differently throughout the performance. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 14 April 2025)
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