Twelfth Night or What Have You has always had an androgynous air about it. Aside from the fact that the leading role disguises herself as a man in order to join the court of Count Orsino, Shakespeare’s subtitle, “or What Have You,” implies that you could make the title whatever you want it to be. After all, the original title came about as a way to commemorate The Feast of the Epiphany which takes place on the Twelfth Night of December. Many scholars believe that was the original reason the play was written: as entertainment for the Twelfth Night of December feast, but that doesn’t really have anything to do with the events within the play. In following years, many companies would rename the play, “Malvolio” and others to “Olivia” or “Feste” but in all cases, they tended to rename the play after the character that they believed had the arc that was most in line with their staging’s theme. If one wanted to make fun of the landed gentry of the time, “Malvolio” would probably be a good title due to how foolishly Malvolio acts over the course of the play; going from a higher-up in Olivia’s court to a mad man in confined in her dungeon. If one wanted to focus on themes of overcoming depression and finding joy, “Olivia” would be a fantastic choice because of her arc from mourning matriarch to joyfully married. More often than not, the show has been renamed, “Viola” mostly because she is the lead of the play, but also because the play hinges on her. Nothing happens without Viola and her disguise. Indeed, Olivia doesn’t fall in love and get married and neither does Orsino. Sir Andrew isn’t revealed to be a coward, Sebastian isn’t reunited with his sister. Everything hinges upon Viola. But still, there is an air of trickery pervading the whole show, which is why some theatres in the past renamed the show, “Feste” after the character who most embodies the archetype of trickery. For us at the collective, if we were to rename the show, it would probably be, “Ilyria Transforms,” or something along those lines as we have tried not to focus on one character but on all of the characters and how they change- from a woman in mourning to a happily married wife, from ship-wrecked twin to… happily married…. From ego-inflated right hand man to more accepting man of the people- in our minds, the show is about how, in a way, the masks we put on are not unmalleable. Humans are fickle. We change, and learn and grow.