MIRACLE Theatre, Cornwall’s most prolific touring theatre company, returns to Dorset for its summer 2025 open air tour, with a new production of one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, Twelfth Night, coming to Ibberton village hall on Thursday 31st July, Kimmeridge Bay on Friday 1st August and Higher Orchard at Sandford Orcas on Saturday 2nd, all at 7pm.

As regular audiences will expect, Miracle brings a fresh, bold and accessible approach to this familiar story of twins Sebastian and Viola, who are separated from one another by sea and storm. Shipwrecked and without her brother for the first time, Viola finds herself washed up in Illyria, a playground for the hedonistic and lovesick elite. What unravels next sends the story spinning into a tangle of unrequited love, mistaken identities, hilarious awkwardness, cruelty and mischief – including the famous mocking of the hypocritical, arrogant Malvolio brought low by the antics of feisty maid Maria and drunken Sir Toby Belch.

Twelfth Night director Sally Crooks says: “Twelfth Night is a kind of party that revels in high-spirited feasting and misrule that never fails to entertain. A delicious fusion of tomfoolery, cruelty, confusion and longing that is seriously funny. I’m thrilled to be working with this outrageously talented team of actors and makers to serve up a version that’s as lively, mischievous, and stirring as the play deserves.”

This joyous and chaotic tale, where love knows no boundaries, features a talented cast of actors, including long-time collaborators Daniel Richards, Sophie Dear and Benjamin Dyson, alongside Miracle newcomers Pip Cook and Jowan Jacobs – who is playing Malvolio, a role originally played by his father in the 2002 production.

When Miracle played on home ground at Cornwall’s famous Minack Theatre, on the cliffs above the Atlantic Ocean, the local edition of online magazine Muddy Stilettoes said: “A real family crowd pleaser ,,, a great, contemporary introduction to live performance Shakespeare that everyone, from your kids to your granny will enjoy. My nine-year old declared it the ‘best play’ he’s seen. My teen thought it hilarious.”