Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe)

[@Ashamedofmyself]

Malvoli-oh kills me every time. Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry are so good in this.

[@iloveshakespeare8377]

I've seen this about a dozen times yet the "How now Malvoli-oh!" line always makes me laugh! :-)

[@janetsjewellery]

I watched this clip loads before I bought the DVD and finally understood how it fit in.

[@shubhbratsarkar4642]

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[@oliviawestfall2002]

SAME

[@josephinerimmer6888]

Oh! Me too!

[@user26223]

@@shubhbratsarkar4642 No you watch this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYi6pmNrjr6VhKs

[@steerpike66]

'He's coming' Madam gets a fantastic laugh. Paul Chahidi just gets every ounce of fun out of it.

[@DarkDuke13]

The wolf whistle at 0:53 is so underrated 😂

[@HowardDando]

I was fortunate to see this all-male authentic Elizabethan production; considered by many as the best production of ‘Twelfth Night.’ At first, it was a surprise that the audience was seated on the stage, but more of a surprise that Mark Rylance had learned from the stage manager that I had brought a class of acting students; and minutes before the show, Mr. Rylance (in full Olivia costume) found me to shake my hand and said “Thank you! If it was not for a theatre teacher, I would never have become an actor.” A two-time Academy Award actor, three-time Tony award winner, Golden Globe winner, and many British awards showed a 'class act' to take his time and step out of character to express his appreciation for theatre teachers.

[@neerajamb]

One of the best plays I’d ever seen! Mark Rylance has the best timing.

[@bottomhead2518]

That production of Twelfth Night.... I can't believe how many laughs those actors and director found in the lines. And they really use the lines to get the laughs, not cheap, manufactured jokes. The Globe nailed that one.

[@rexmundi2237]

"Malvoli - oh!" the stuff great productions are made on.

[@vglegorreta]

Everyone in this scene was nominated for a Tony.

[@rachfatcat]

Brilliant production, I defy even the most Shakespeare-resistant person not to laugh out loud at parts of this. The whole cast is excellent.

[@TamimLB]

not funny

[@lizrivers4422]

I saw this. It was the girst time I'd seen the brilliant Mark Rylance act. How the Hell he floated about the stage I'll never know!!

[@homesweethomeproductions9571]

I got to see this live and it is one of my favorite memories of all time. Pure luck. Stopped by the ticket booth just as 2 tickets were opening up. Had no idea what I was in for. It was an incredible performance. No one like Mark Ryalance to make a Shakespeare play feel like a living breathing thing.

[@Alieaz]

Rylance and Fry. This is just the best thing ever!

[@nataliavolkova2122]

We watched this video with my ten-years-old students. They were impressed and liked it very much. "How now Malvoli-oh!" Actors are genious!

[@taikob0y]

The best Shakespeare I have ever seen!

[@trinadubya3406]

As wonderful an actor as Mark Rylance is, he looks like he's on the verge of giggles at 1:59.

[@gabrieli1612]

The best thing ever done at the Globe, a superlative production.

[@javvie55]

Absolutely fantastic on Broadway. They are all just amazing!

[@carolnyc1]

The best experience I've ever had in a theatre. I feel lucky to live in NYC!

[@elisaedinia4595]

carolnyc ....but is this not in London?🤔🥀

[@MissMiffed]

eli saedinia this production did transfer to NYC after its run at the globe.

[@tomshea8382]

@@MissMiffed The set was different though, right? More flat proscenium?

[@whiterabbit7147]

0:53 Did- Did someone just whistle at Malvolio!? 🤣🤣🤣

[@StelViri]

How wonderful ❤ Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry OMG plus I'm sure an amazing entire cast ❤

[@helterskelterxo]

Mark Rylance is amazing.

[@fuadsflkas]

what a wonderful performance my Mark Rylance...

[@loopchangeloop696]

I just love this production. It is fabulous in every way!!!

[@tedmounsteven621]

Such great talent: author, director, and actors!

[@victoriamoreno4325]

I love this rendition for this play ❤️

[@yvonneowens8548]

I love this production! How wonderful to have it available to show to my ninth-graders to show how Shakespeare was done during his lifetime!

[@DarthWill3]

I love that Stephen Fry!

[@Liz86000]

Who doesn't ? He's amazing !

[@breezingby2611]

I feel bad for all the actresses who’ve played Olivia Mark Rylance, someone whose not even the same gender as the role has blown them all out of the water

[@rancorious247]

It takes a man to be best girl.

[@grace-ti8cs]

That's how it was back when Wil was around🙂

[@user-nq7eg9in8g]

have you seen them all?

[@bato4531]

Lol

[@beauvyner1254]

let's not compare.

[@jes3836]

Chahidi is a treasure!

[@tomshea8382]

He's the best thing in the show

[@rcarnes3]

Incredibly good

[@jes3836]

How now Malvoli...oh! Never fails to crack me up.

[@SkyFortStudios]

Saw Richard the iii tonight and Twelfth Night two weeks ago. I feel lucky to be a New Yorker.

[@bosiewilder4945]

Brilliant. Shakespeare in full bloom. Hilarious!

[@zephyr755]

Rylance's keynote for his wondrous performance must have been "panic" - jittery and quavery throughout.

[@noemy969]

I'm obsessed. My professor gave us this play as an assignment and I can't stop thinking about this, love it!

[@thanostheclub]

Having watched and rewatched this production far too many times, I can safely say that I shan't tire of it. I don't even like the play! They're all brilliant, but Paul Chahidi especially so!

[@bunnygarden215]

Hv this production dvd. Its BRILLIANT ❤

[@KCQUANN]

i Love Fry' laugh

[@melimistaken]

I just adore this play, we watched it in class but only my English teacher and I were laughing

[@ItinerantIntrovert]

we really need to bring back "How now, man?"

[@emmettgraves4925]

also when he put his leg up on the table I died.

[@54jabberwocky]

priceless, I ordered the dvd and he is mine all mine😃

[@Zainabtriesit]

Where'd you order it from?

[@rexmundi2237]

This production makes me wonder to what extent Elizabethan audiences suspended disbelief about boys playing, um, female parts. Was there as strong an element of vaudevillian titillation and camp humour a la Black Adder and Monty Python for 16th century theatre goers as there is for the audience at this production of Twelfth Night? Were there cries of "show us ya cod piece' from the groundlings, or was it more like Japanese Kabuki and Noh theatre? I think humour played a much bigger part in Shakespearian plays than the dreary old Victorians and po-faced West End theatre companies in the 1940's and 50's realised , even in the tragedies. They probably roared with laughter when Gloucester had his eyes put out in King Lear - whether Shakespeare and Co intended it or not.

[@moonfish3638]

Rex Mundi I’m crazy late so you may not read this, but while part of it was suspension of disbelief, a lot of male Actors who played women were pre pubescent boys with higher voices and softer features. Once you aged your chances of being cast in a roll of a woman was slim, unless there were no younger boys and then I think what you said happened in its entirety!

[@drkyre]

When I saw this in NY, we were advised to come early, and had the pleasure of watching the actors prepare and get into character -- especially Mark Rylance as the Countess. Within ten minutes, one could see clearly that the Countess and Maria were both women... played by men, but unquestionably in their body language, speech, and mannerisms. It was a marvelous balance of belief.

[@stevecharters8965]

There is some evidence that adolescence was prolonged in the Elizabethan era (till about the age of 18) so the boy actors, highly trained and skilled as they were, may well have had the understanding, sensitivity and nuance to portray women convincingly without recourse to the broad strokes of the pantomime dame. And they didn't have close-ups in those days - the performances were viewed by candlelight if indoors, and if in daylight at a theatre like the Globe, then viewed at some distance, the groundlings craning upwards to see. Regarding suspended disbelief, refer to Midsummer Night's Dreams for the mechanicals' concerns about the audience being terrified of the lion or thinking that Pyramus is really dead.

[@aoifemcandless-davis226]

A lot of eunuchs played female characters too, and there's a complex nuanced history of eunuchs that has an interesting relationship to what we understand today as trans women (not the same thing, for sure, but there's a historical relationship). Personally, I think it's reductive to just say they were all played by "boys." In some ways, eunuchs were more or less their own gender

[@ryanoshea2748]

Quite an interesting topic this one! Clothing was often deemed to carry gendered attributes and there were many anxieties in the period around cross-dressing on and off stage ('Hic-Mulier' and 'Haec Vir' were two notable pamphlets). Farthingales (accessories which holds out the shape of skirts, such as Mark Rylance's) and bodices were commonly worn by actors and would generally conceal most of the body, while the faces would also be painted to mask close facial details. This lead to some puritans arguing that cross-dressing could inspire homosexual love from audiences (rampant homophobia back then)! A play which would have been hilariously confusing to the period's audiences would be Middleton and Dekker's 'The Roaring Girl', which features a female character (played by a male actor), who cross-dresses as a man, creating a Monty-Python-esque scenario of a man dressing as a woman dressing as a man! To an extent, some of the plays of the period played with the (rather modern) idea that gender can be performed through clothing, dress, and manner. I think (obviously cant prove) it is likely that clothing would have been seen as a believable sign of character back then, allowing for more of a suspension of disbelief around the differences between the actors' identities and those of their roles.

[@mauroboros8566]

I would've paid good money to see this cast live

[@victoriamoreno4325]

This is the best play ever! XD

[@yorukkizigeziyor]

💗💕 Very Beautiful 💕💗

[@kerstinlandgren2393]

Just seen Twelfth Night, a totally splendid performance at Fyrisbiografen in Uppsala, Sweden. Fantastic!

[@mirandas2013]

Thanks for sharing this

[@jimenahuenchupan6026]

Que maravilloso que exista algo asi en el mundo ,poder ver teatro de esa epoca con muy buenos actores.

[@SohamHalderJourno]

Magic.

[@cannyexplorer5357]

Wish Sky Arts would show these wonderful performances again as we are not able to order them due to the shutdown. We need laughter during these terrible times.

[@stevie8763]

Why cant you order them ?. Amazon , ebay etc all have them in stock on DVD, available to order and deliver during shutdown

[@HawkinaBox]

LMAO That laugh from Malvolio

[@MsSteelphoenix]

I absolutely die of laughter every damn time.

[@omerozmen1779]

Perfect

[@redsands1001]

Read an article last year lamenting mark Rylance becoming kinda typecast in movies. He's great as the slightly bemused soft spoken guy with various levels of competence but they were said he wasn't allowed to be as funny as he is on stage

[@EmmaIadanza]

I need to learn this scene... I can't do it as good as him though

[@steerpike66]

Just ordered the DVD. C'mon, c'mon!!

[@jean3754]

Saw them at the Belasco, NYC …hilarious.

[@imirrelevant513]

God, I adore Stephen Fry

[@DemakaseWarning]

0:55

[@giagem404]

Oh God. This is a COMEDY 😃😂😭

[@SilviaViolin]

😂😂😂 that’s hilarious!

[@greentombdive]

Good one - thanks - subbed.

[@KnighT4636]

I went to see this!!!!

[@Xiaolongbaokid16]

Malvoli----oh?!

[@cindchan]

Is this not available in the US?? NOOOOO!! *curls up in a ball and sobs*

[@cindchan]

***** Yea, verily, I know! 'Tis mine now!

[@annreed7935]

Buy the DVD. The best £20 I ever spent. Its available on amazon.

[@cindyfranklin6677]

I know. I actually own it now. And I agree, money well spent! ^_^

[@drtmuir]

2:25 Colonel Melchett!!!

[@johnmarx3919]

Colonel??? No, he is the very model of a modern Major General!

[@MusicMagic0007]

I'm doing this as a play, I'm practicing it today and all weekend I've been looking it up😂, I'm playing Olivia and it's weird since one of my bff's is playing Orsino

[@M65942M]

NYC is hopping! The RSC on our shores! Over at the MET, Fiona Shaw is directing some of the operas this season. I wish my company had a New York office so I could get a short transfer.

[@mIsanthropius]

just want to see it because of JOHNNY FLYNN :)

[@ronnie2764]

Guybrush Threepwood we have the same taste then ;)

[@emmettgraves4925]

Relatable.

[@wasabinoodle6189]

I regret the night I didn't download this performance when both halves of the whole thing was up. I didn't even get to see the second part after omission :(.

[@saimai4630]

Wasabi Noodle look it up again! just finished it today!

[@lias5188]

It’s now on their website to buy or rent!

[@jeffreyenglish1815]

That’s the guy from Dont Look Up!

[@Dabbledoodibbledoop]

doing this for school

[@charlietheanteater3918]

Is that Steven Fry?

[@rationalsceptic7634]

Charlie Theanteater Indeed the 6ft 5 Mr Fry!

[@greciatoledo3507]

Alguien sabe donde puedo conseguir está maravillosa obra? En traducción al español porfis 🙏

[@OctavinaPlayer]

Is this the same production where Sir Mark Rylance won his third Tony Award?

[@tomshea8382]

It is; this is the Globe Theatre production, which was moved to NYC later with almost (I think) the same all-male cast, played on a true proscenium set which is different than this thrust stage.

[@fmiglio437]

molto apprezzato

[@iiinlustris4220]

Does anyone know where I can find the full performance? Xx 💛

[@jessecason-sait8400]

What act and scene is this because i need act 3 scene 5 and act 3 scene 4 for my homework

[@cadearoo1782]

Does anyone know where the full video of this is? I saw this back in 7th grade and can't find it!

[@markorollo.]

Im asking this as a Shakespeare novice (but trying to 'get it') so forgive me, is the funny part as it was meant to be said or is it sort of artistic license?

[@broadwaymelody33]

I fucking can’t with this 😂

[@1968KWT]

0:17; 0:56

[@rishitamisra719]

which exact scene is this??

[@LeungJamie-y8u]

Act 3 scene 4

[@Beargirl1359]

An all male cast, keep it classy

[@gabrielwighton1884]

What act and scene is this?

[@poppythomas4169]

Act 3 scene 4

[@natwikbuk1]

Колоритно!

[@ayumen1121]

💣

[@mikazmedia2357]

it is nie to meet u.

[@CarnotaurusEnjoyer]

this has convinced me malvolio has 1 braincell

[@littlegirlbiglife9833]

Out scab!

[@TerranceMcCloud]

where/how do we watch the full productions?

[@opusarte]

You can order the product through here. The retailer links are on the side of the page www.opusarte.com/details/OA1111D#.U2EZxfldURc

[@laurenroels2493]

+opusarte Is there an online download option?

[@mikeiseastman]

+opusarte Any options for North America??

[@nataliacecyliarojas6219]

The Globe itself allows for streaming, five pounds for a show (the same price as a ticket in the pit)

[@annreed7935]

DVD available on Amazon.

[@amenemhati1840]

😂

[@Feelsrite]

Illegal in Tennessee 😡😤

[@danawinsor1380]

I don't know, are we sure that the men playing female parts were over-the-top drag queens? Perhaps in comedy, but what about tragedy? I always imagined that there were boys or young men who mastered the ability of appearing and speaking in a female manner.

[@JohnSmith-zq9mo]

I think what Elizabethean comments we do have on performances suggest people took it seriously. Eg, people were sympathetic to Desdemona's or Juliet's plight, not laughing at some at campiness.

[@tomshea8382]

If you think Rylance and Chahidi are over-the-top drag queens, then I'm afraid you've never seen a real over-the-top drag queen.

[@mdavison6174]

vicar!!!!!!!!!!

[@gedq]

Mark Ryland plays Olivia, and Stephen Fry plays Stephen Fry. Larks.

[@elvirasiringo]

Elvira Siringo, L’ULTIMA EREDE DI SHAKESPEARE, Piemme editore kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2axopSEhsyIpLM