Twelfth Night: a dozen productions of Shakespeare's romantic comedy - in pictures

Alan Stocks (Fabian), Adam Keast (Andrew Aguecheek) and Matthew Kelly (Toby Belch) in the new production at Liverpool's Everyman theatre Photograph: Stephen Vaughan

A postcard from 1901 with a portrait of Lily Brayton as Viola Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans in a production at the St James theatre in 1941, directed by Margaret Webster Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

Laurence Olivier played Sir Toby Belch in a 1937 production and then took the role of Malvolio in 1955 Photograph: John Springer Collection/CORBIS

Dorothy Tutin (Viola) and Geraldine McEwan (Olivia) in a 1960 production Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Tommy Steele in a 1969 TV production Photograph: Phillip Jackson/Rex Features

Vanessa Redgrave, in the role of Viola, with Nyree Dawn Porter and Norman Eshley at the Shaw theatre in 1972 Photograph: AP

Simon Russell Beale as Malvolio at the Donmar Warehouse in 2002 Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Derek Jacobi as Malvolio at the Wyndham's theatre in 2008 Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Richard Wilson in an RSC production in 2009 Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Amanda Drew (Olivia) and Rebecca Hall (Viola) at the National Theatre in 2011 Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Stephen Fry (Malvolio) and Mark Rylance (Olivia) in the all-male cast production at the Apollo theatre in 2012 Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian