End of play jig

[@edward311]

I saw this stunning production at the Globe and witnessed history. Mark Rylance is a genius. His performance moved me to tears and made me laugh out loud. He found nuances I never thought were in this play. . His performance in Twelfth Night and Jerusalem were masterclasses. He is joyous to watch and that beguiling cheeky smile is to die for.............

[@saradecapua3264]

Watch the joy in his expression during the jig has forced me to watch this clip numerous times. Fantastic.

[@PhilipConnolly-lb9vw]

Doesn't make him a genius though. Now that William Shakespeare, he might be called a genius. Especially if he did write the plays.

[@edward311]

@@PhilipConnolly-lb9vw Of course William Shakespeare was the genius....but Mark Rylance added his touch of genius in his interpretation of the role. Shakespeare was not the only genius the world has known in the arts....Fosse, Bausch, Sondheim.etc etc.

[@PhilipConnolly-lb9vw]

@@edward311 Indeed, but I'm not sure actors liike sportesmentare can ever be geniuses. Very good at what they do. Genius is more than that.

[@edward311]

@@PhilipConnolly-lb9vw Whatever....

[@lyngilbert5684]

Dear Hearts: I just found this. Where have I been????? Isolated from caregiving work with clients having to be constantly tested for COVID. But to see this joy...brings tears of joy. I have got to find out how to see this entire production. IT is stunning. Thank you for sharing this....All Love

[@saradecapua3264]

This post is exactly what we all need. Beautiful music, great dancing and seeing pure joy on Mark's face.

[@rexmundi2237]

Very polite way of saying "the show's over folks, go home".

[@bustedfender]

“Oi Oi, that’s yer lot” would have resounded around Southwark for the same purposes in the 1940s. Arthur Askey’s Bottom was fantastic in a Dream at the time.

[@terencebennison6275]

Returned to this after not watching it for a while, it always cheers me up, especially in these dark covid days!

[@saradecapua3264]

I have been returning to this often. It does buoy the spirit.

[@jamesalexander8435]

Brilliant. what a release of energy for the cast and audience after such a masterpiece

[@maggiebodek]

My daily dose of genius. I watch this clip every day. I am sad because I missed the magic on Broadway, but happy that it was filmed. They are all wonderful, but the gift of Mark Rylance is absolutely beyond anything we could ever have imagined. I think it is pure genius wrapped in undeniable humility.

[@bustedfender]

🤫 me too…

[@bustedfender]

This is a shot of joy I could certainly do with in a world suddenly gone delusional and corrupt all at the same time.

[@Badtastemamma]

Oh man!! Mark Rylance so dedicated , so exuberant absolutely irrisistable!

[@belindakittel4913]

I think I'm developing a crush....

[@Badtastemamma]

watch my music video of Mark 'Mark Rylance 2' you'll love it!!

[@Londonfogey]

I was privileged to see this performance. The end of the play is very sad - just look at the expressions on the faces of the audience, that is how we were all feeling - so when the dance started everyone was glad to end on a high note!

[@suebursztynski2530]

Which play is it?

[@alexandermillar1202]

what a gorgeous way to end a sad tale

[@abisaijorgevegaperez5289]

Recently saw Mark Rylance in Netflix's Dont Look Up, his smile and calmness of voice are always on point, this guy is a legend

[@suebursztynski2530]

This is amazing! Mark Rylance can dance as well as act? And so joyously...

[@thomassimmons1950]

What JOY!!!

[@theahaberman8189]

Oh gosh I love this!!! Look at Mark Rylance during the second curtain call! He just can't contain himself!

[@gaildoughty6799]

Mark Rylance is the Actor of His Generation.

[@FlowersInHisHair]

Pure joy

[@badjemima]

I saw this four days before my daughter was born, two weeks overdue. It still makes me so happy to remember how much I loved it. It will always remind me of that happiness and anticipation.

[@saradecapua3264]

She wouldn't have been overdue if you danced along.

[@josephinerimmer6888]

Just amazing!

[@saradecapua3264]

Dang, I'm exhausted. What a great performance.

[@inessamaria2428]

Outstanding

[@cherishangus2877]

We are doing this song for an event! This is amazing😆

[@siralexandersequeira3rdcou12]

The renaissance music goes so well with a performance so historically accurate

[@sianwarwick633]

Nobody slinks off for a swift half or a tot with this to look forward to

[@JollyGraham]

Just watched Mark Rylance in Wolf Hall. The difference between that performance and this can’t be much greater yet he is incredible in both.

[@cannyexplorer5357]

This one is missing from my collection, must find it if still available.

[@selja26]

Mark is so bouncy haha. Always the best dancer!

[@rolandscales9380]

This is what a Shakespeare performance should be about: a great afternoon or evening out, not some stilted, well-meaning exercise performed by dismal geezers wearing combat fatigues in half-light or declaiming in their pyjamas while wobbling on a trapeze.

[@Lytton333]

That did make me laugh. You are right of course, it's all become a predictable arms race for directorial notoriety. They've become terrified of splendour and declamation in case they don't score brownie points from the peers who are also hamstrung on pretentious postmodern posturing - Macbeth on roller skates and Twelfth Night set in a care home. God it's all so tiresome and psychobabbly sententious.

[@rolandscales9380]

@@Lytton333 Amen, amen! As for declamation... Hoffman's film of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1999), the one that tries to be fin de siècle Italian with all the bicycles... It has an undeniable visual charm, but I really wasn't impressed by the way the dialogue was treated, with too many TV-style muttering talking heads, and this does Shakespeare's language no favours. I have this version of the play on DVD, and I set the disc to French dialogue. Big improvement! The Comédie Française-style enunciation and delivery actually suited the film better than Hoffman's English version. As for casting Puck, I wouldn't have assigned the role to Stanley Tucci. He wasn't sinister or mercurial enough. I'd have lifted the creepy singer from Visconti's "Death in Venice" and shoehorned him into the role.

[@theostapel]

Dismal geezers and their attire are probably feeling great and love for the theatre also. Everyone plays ....

[@breningirl]

Wow! Rylance is so nimble.

[@unclegargameldgargameld4888]

Wolf Hall should have ended with a jig like this with the cast members from both series

[@partjames]

Thank you for posting this. The end of play jig is such an interesting part of Elizabethan Theater. The song they dance to is fantastic! Do you know the composer and name of the piece?

[@MaluchkaKorotkova]

The song is called La Bataille and it was written by Tielman Susato.

[@Badtastemamma]

not to mention this is performed after a 2+Hour drama performance!

[@rolandscales9380]

@@MaluchkaKorotkova Published by Tielman Susato. It's not known for sure whether he composed it.

[@rexmundi2237]

Wonder if the Globe would ever consider staging a play by Bertholt Brecht, Mother Courage for example; or is it strictly Shakespeare and his contemporaries?

[@taylordiclemente5163]

A nitpick: that was a bit of a rude interruption of Mille Regretz! They could have held on to that beautiful final cadence a bit longer. Nice battaglia though.

[@wickedfan7681]

Anyone have the whole boot?

[@oskivariete]

A consultation is this the end of the work? just like Shakespeare's company did

[@mjarail]

Weren't those slide trumpets in the wind band?

[@oskivariete]

is related to harlequinades ?, thanks

[@justanothergoogler6436]

Who choreographed this?

[@florence1562]

Siân Williams

[@MegaJw99]

Mark Rylance, Mark Likes-a-dance more like!

[@marybertke6890]

This is fun, but I'm stuck on one point. Jigs are 6/8. This is 4/4. They're dancing it to a march.

[@saradecapua3264]

Either way, this was pure delight.

[@malcolmmcdonald9991]

Actually, it's the Battle Pavan (or Pavane de la Guerre) of which there were several contemporaneous versions.

[@hankroberts2902]

I want to see the US White House do this.

[@bkbj8282]

What’s the reason for calling this “RICHARD II” in the end credits. I must be missing something in reference or naming… this was Richard the third. Can someone clue me in?

[@michalys2]

This was Richard II. Richard III is a different play.