Mark Rylance: Opening scene of The Tempest

[m.h.]

Sir Mark Rylance, one of the best actors of our generation. What a fantastic clip. ❤

[jamessupplee]

Love the way he sets up the play as a situation where it's all open and has not happened yet. Very inviting!

[lilyroselily]

I saw Mark Rylance playing Ariel 42 years ago! The whole play was amazing. I was sitting in the 'cheap' seats right on the stage.

[deste]

Wonderful man, what a fantastic event.

[adamglasser-ts]

Moving … wonderful as ever, Mark Rylance thank you

[monicacall]

Sir Mark’s reading of “The Tempest” is stunning. I did this play several times with 10-12 year old students, and the students loved the story and loved the language. Their interpretations of the characters and the story were fresh and always changing. Frankly, I don’t care who really wrote these plays. What I care about is the fact that these beautiful plays are ours to love, learn from and to enjoy.

[karmaneh]

A true artist, thank you for sharing.

[jamesbottomley]

Whoever wrote this had a great power of mind and huge knowledge of what works for an audience, actors and a story.

[kingman.mp]

Can you imagine the impact of this manner of delivery and understanding of the text in schools?

[hughbarton]

I have "acted", more or less, for about 40 years. In that tumblehome history, and had the great good fortune to do about 25 of his plays.
You non-actors? Ever seen a play by Kit Marlowe produced? Nope.Hmm....
Any other contemporary work? Didn't stand the passage of time.
This guy was special. Can I explain his volatile, searching mind?
I cannot.

[thelexsoto]

he's rocking Shakespeare's hair style. modern bard

[apokalupsishistoria]

3:36 If Rylance wants a synchronicity within a synchronicity, July 26 is Jung’s birthday.

[thecitizenjoan]

Reading Shakespeare on your own < Reading Shakespeare while listening to Mark Rylance read it

[wordsrawesome]

Does anyone know what edition of collected works he's reading from? It looks beautiful

[ThomasSimmons-ux]

Talent doesn't equate to common sense. Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare... fugghedaboudit

[lyndabarron]

This authorship business is wearing a bit thin. It doesn't have anything to do with promoting that film in which two particular actors are featued, by any chance?

[ThomasSimmons-ux]

Kier Stammer wrote As You Like It... Perhaps Lizzo. Feels me?

[KieranRobinson-zzug]

Interesting he didn't say from daddy and mommy. Is he her stepfather

[petervonberg]

The real author of Shakespeare was Lord Greystoke.

[MAKOBITE]

Hard to believe anyone could doubt that Shakespeare was the author of his plays. It's just so stupid. And yet there are Rylance and Jacobi, among them. So many contemporaries attest to his being a great playwright and actor, owner of the theatre with Burbage, his whole life in Stratford documented, what is there to question? So ridiculous.