What You Will

Deviser & Performer (Viola) | 2018
Venture Shakespeare (Asheville, NC)

What You Will is a new theatre piece inspired by Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Created by the 2018 Venture Shakespeare Young Company over the course of 4 weeks, this work seeks to infuse personal accounts from the performers into a personal, sincere, yet comedic, retelling of this classic story. With guidance from mentors at Venture Shakespeare, What You Will signifies my first experience with collaborative devising and my introduction to new theatre as a performer.

3 performers dressed in variations of white fabric tops and denim bottoms. 1 performer stands with a guitar and 1 performer drags a small model ship on a cloth across the floor. Fox sits in front with a ukulele in a kiddie pool full of sand.

Close-up of Fox playing a ukulele while sitting on a stool that has been knocked over and placed in a kiddie pool full of sand.

2 performers and Fox sit around a kiddie pool in a semi-circle. Inside the kiddie pool another performer is crouched down, peeking out nervously with a metal bucket on their head.

2 performers create a trust fall tableau - facing each other, one performer leans forward while the other performer supports their weight while in a lunge stance.

3 performers stretch out a white sheet in the air in the background. Fox guides a small model ship in front.

3 performers and Fox stand side by side in a straight line facing forward, each holding a metal bucket.

Cast & Creative Team

Director Kirstin Daniel

Dramaturgy Karen Harker

Costume Tyler Ogburn

Sebastian Shane Clemmer & Max Schenk

Viola Samantha Fox & Makenzy Mull

Photography by Tyler Ogburn.

​What You Will

What You Will