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Olivia was played by Gwen Cherrell, with Claire Bloom as Viola, John Neville as Orsino, Richard Burton as Sir Toby Belch and Michael Hordern as Malvolio. James Bailey designed the costumes and also the Palladian-inspired architectural setting which was used for all six plays presented in the first season of the Five Year Plan, between September 1953 and May 1954.  For <i>Twelfth Night</i> he adapted his permanent set to suggest an Italian garden. The Elizabethan costumes were based on the miniatures of Isaac Oliver and Nicholas Hilliard. Gerard Fay, writing in the <i>Manchester Guardian</i> (8 January 1954) said that Gwen Cherrell's Olivia 'lives up to the descriptions of her beauty and is dressed superbly'.\n\nJames Bailey's romantic and atmospheric style, influenced by the work of Oliver Messel, made him a much sort-after designer for opera and ballet. His first commission after graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art was to design <i>Giselle</i> at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1946.  He created settings and costumes for Shakespeare productions, notably a 'Victorian' <i>Hamlet</i> at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1948 and <i>As You Like It</i> for Katharine Hepburn in New York in 1950. 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