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Fuck yeah!
Right up ’em!
Thanks for sharing.
Shakespeare and Ian McKellan. National treasures. ‘Brought tears to my eyes!
The way he strode toward the audience as if he was a teenager!! And I thought that Shylock’s soliloquy (‘Do I need bleed?’) hit home hard. Phew!
He is brilliant. Staggering ability.
I saw him with Helen Mirren in Strindberg’s The Dance of Death, on Broadway late 2001. Both astonishing performances, the thing I recall most strongly about McKellen was his huge and intense physical presence.
I loved him and Jacobi in Vicious as well. I’ll get my coat 🙂
Listened. As I heard, my heart hurt.
Indeed
Self reason, and self right!
Whether would you go?
Your mountainous inhumanity…
It’s so quotable, but really I’d see the likes of Farage and Badenoch forced to face this head on and in full.
Sometimes I wonder whether these rabble rousers have ever read a play or book with a moral message as anything other than an instruction manual.
Thank you – the link wouldn’t work for me, just in case, it’s here:
https://youtu.be/wXq58BbhCO4?si=aLbPWmFj8DiSvQbQ
Thganks
Wonderful. Can anyone tell me which play? Thanks
I should not be lazy. Now found this ‘On May 1, 1517 — now referred to as Evil May Day — riots broke out in London as a response to an influx of immigrant workers. Eighty years later, a play was written that includes some of these events. The play, called Sir Thomas More, wasn’t published or performed at the time, quite possibly because it was censored. This speech from the play is delivered to the rampaging crowd by Thomas More, who was sheriff of London at the time. Thomas More asks the rioters to imagine themselves in the shoes of the immigrants they’re attacking. The manuscript shown in the video is an original version of the speech and was very likely written by William Shakespeare.’
So may not be Shakespeare at all, but it will do.
Accepted.
I did some quick research and found the play, that I had never heard of.
Goosebumps.
How times don’t change, or would that be people, the good, the bad & the gullible?
I always loved my Shakespeare at school, particularly the Scottish play, so it is wonderful to see a master of his craft delivering such powerful and relevant prose today.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you – I have watched it, and listened, and it is indeed ‘words for the modern day’. In 2019 Sir Ian McKellen, for his 80th birthday, toured 80 theatres where he had never played. He included Buxton Opera House in the tour. He had a huge stage presence and notably huge hands – he threw, from the stage, a handful of (wrapped!) sweets into the audience – one landed on me in the front row of the dress circle! In the 2nd part of the show he invited the audience to call out the names of Shakespeare plays and without hesitation quoted from each. Interesting that (@Sue H) he made his first professional appearance in 1961 at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, as Roper in A Man for All Seasons by Thomas More.