Description
Twelfth Night (or what you will) by Wm. Shakespeare performed by The National Theatre Live
(2017)
Run Time 2 hrs 39 mins for the play in two files at interval
Subtitles in English or Russian French Polish and
Japanese selectable from your VLC or other player for the
play and also featurette presented by Kirsty Lang.
IMDb tt6845890
Summary from NTLive
Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to
survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind
of mistaken identity and unrequited love. The nearby households of Olivia and
Orsino are overrun with passion.
Cast and Creatives
Directed for the stage by Simon Godwin
Directed for the screen by Robin Lough
Viola Tamara Lawrance
Sebastian Daniel Ezra
Orsino Oliver Chris
Curio Emmanuel Kojo
Valentine Brad Morrison
Sir Toby Belch Tim McMullan
Maria Nicky Wardly
Captain and Priest James Wallace
Sir Andrew Aguecheek Daniel Rigby
Antonio Adam Best
Feste Doon Mackichan
Olivia Phoebe Fox
Malvolia Tamsin Grieg
Fabia Imogen Doel
complete cast list in the credit roll
My Notes
A few months earlier there was a version of this Twelfth Night as a fundraiser during
the worldwide theatre shut down of the virus pandemic. This is a different and earlier
capture done by another user which I note in the NFO. The recode was made to a much smaller
size for easy download for more users. The featurette was not part of the streaming
fundraiser showing. The featurette has some interviews but I would read those after
viewing.
The setting for this Twelfth Night is contemporary but it does not detract
from the story. Indeed with Tamsin Grieg as Malvolia they have given a new
twist to the role playing in the play.
And a note on Tim McMullan here playing the dissolute Toby Belch. One of my first view of
the Globe Theatre was As You Like It (in this collection) with McMullan as Jacques giving
the best reading of Shakespeare's "Seven Ages Of Man" speech I've ever heard.
Down a couple pages in this profile you can find Shakespeare's Globe on Screen Twelfth
Night. In that production Mark Rylance plays Olivia to a standing-with-no-elbow-room
audience
of the only Globe DVD performance using "original practices." As you can see the role
playing
in the NTLive show has a certain kind of mirror effect with the original practices version
at
the Globe.
For this upload I have added some sample subtitles and a How to file for you to add
additional subtitles in a preferred language. The English and Russian are original to
this Twelfth Night when captured and are available within VLC.
Notes written November 26th, 2017
New notes written November 5th, 2020
General
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