Twelfth Night: A Feast of Fools
The Lord of Misrule, Shakespeare, and Merriment to End the Holiday Season
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Join us for a last blast of celebration in honor of the end of the twelve days of Christmas!
Long before New Year’s Eve became a thing, Twelfth Night once echoed with a splendid upside-down revelry that challenged any strait-laced ideas of power, identity, and what constitutes good behavior. We will join together and co-create an evening worth of such illustrious (or, more accurately, irreverent) lineage. We will laugh January into submission in a Renaissance-inspired romp. And yes, you can most absolutely come dressed as a fool!
- Join us for the day/evening for Afternoon Revels. A Reveling Feast & Pig Roast & Festivities or…
- Stay the night: The Full Revel – Afternoon Revels, Cocktails, Feast & Festivities and an Overnight Stay
Advance Reservations Required.
Reserve Now!The Schedule
1 to 4 PM: Afternoon Revels. We will play together as we prepare for the evening. There will be frolicking, capering, and gamboling…
- Foolish Revels: Learn about the rich and revolutionary history of Twelfth Night celebrations so we can revel deeply together.
- The Spillian Reveler’s Shakespeare Company: All the world’s a stage, and now’s your chance to become a player in our stage reading of a brilliantly fast and furious short version of Shakespeare’s iconic comedy, Twelfth Night! We will gather in the afternoon to bring some semblance of order to chaos and prepare to trod the boards and chew all available scenery in the evening. The perfect way to do theater! No memorizing of lines and anything goes…
- The Bar will of course be open to invite your inner jester to come and play. And there will be Spillian snacks, so the jester doesn’t get completely out of line. Yet.
5 PM: Cocktails and the Crowning of the Lord of Misrule
In addition to our regular bar offerings, we’ll be evoking Renaissance renaissance flavors of the season: hippocras, a spiced wine flavored like cinnamon and ginger; a house-infused version of mulberry gin; and aqua vitae – the water of life – brandy. And we’ll present the King’s Cake, complete with a bean inside to crown our Lord of Misrule for the evening.
6 PM: A Twelfth Night Feast from Chef Christian Van Etten
Chef Christian has gone full out with flavors for carnivores and vegivores…and he’s roasting a pig!
Salad Course
Red Currant, Pear, Arugula, Dilled-Almond Salad with Local Maple Vinaigrette
For the Carnivores
A Pig Roast, Bedecked with Bay and Rosemary
Rainbow Carrots and Roasted Fall Root Vegetables
Butternut Sage Risotto alla Milanese
For the Vegivores
Our Famous Mushroom Wellington with Plum Reduction
Rainbow Carrots and Roasted Fall Root Vegetables
Butternut Sage Risotto alla Milanese
Dessert
House Made Pumpkin Tiramisu
7 PM: Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare & the Spillian Revelers Shakespeare Company
We will speak the speeches trippingly as we split the ears of the groundlings, and our sides with laughing at our foolish selves as we bring the adventures of Viola, Sebastian, Sir Toby Belch, and all of their loves and tormenters to life. Adapted and directed by Cat Yudain and Ian Potter, theater artists from NYC and marriers at Spillian last summer!
Cat Yudain
Cat is thrilled to be back at Spillian with Ian! Cat is a NYC-based Actor, Model, and Fight Director. Some stage credits include RIPT Theater Company’s 4-Actor Hamlet, Psittacus Productions and Lincoln Center’s Romeo and Juliet, and Masterfool and FoxWolf’s site-specific A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth. Cat works as a camera operator and creative consultant for REMstatic production company, and recently worked with Scrappack Productions on their films Just One More Thing (Director) and Sight (Stunt Coordinator). Other credits include Edinburgh Fringe, The International Tennessee Williams Festival, Rochester Fringe, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, etc. Cat is the Artistic Director of RAWHIDE Theatre Company, founder of Foxhole Films, member of draMAStic dance works,Ian Potter
Ian is ecstatic to return to the magical location of Spilian after getting married here this past August! A working artist living in NYC, Ian spends most of his time painting large scale, photorealistic, murals on the sides of buildings all over NYC for Colossal Media Group. In his glimpses of free time he is also deeply involved in the NYC Theatre and Film scene with such past productions as:The Soldier in Fortnight at Tripler, King Arthur in the staged reading of The Cursed Beast, First Seargent/Seyton in the staged reading (Soon to be Feature Film) of Macbeth, Mordant in The Three Musketeers, Constantine in The Aurora Project among many more. Ian looks forward to bringing his prior Shakespearean Training to Spillian’s revel this January to help create a fun and foppish journey through the tale of Twelfth Night! Ian would like to thank Leigh, Mark and the Spillian staff for continuing our creative relationship beyond our beautiful wedding. As always, he would like to thank his beautiful wife and co-director Cat for the most important partnership in life.Pricing
The Afternoon Revels, Feast & Evening Festivities: $75 per person
Join us for the crowning, cocktails, dinner, and the evening festivities. Afternoon revels begin at 1 PM, Cocktails begin at 5 PM, dinner at 7 PM. Additional cash bar, tax, and gratuities not included. Please join us for the afternoon revels, staging our magnificently nonsensical short of Twelfth Night!
The Full Twelfth Night Revel: All of the Offerings Plus an Overnight Stay:$365 per couple
Make it a getaway! The Full Twelfth Night Revel includes all activities and supplies for the afternoon, dinner and the evening festivities. plus an overnight stay for two with a breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning. Cash bar, tax, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at Noon on Saturday, check out at 11 AM on Sunday.
