Twelfth Night (1969) - Sir Ralph Richardson, part 10 of 10

[festmeable]

hey guys if you search wallaby17171 feste, you can check out my final song in twelfth night. I loved playing feste the jester in my high school shakespeare company and i just want you too check it out.

[nicelydone31]

how now art thou mad??? lol!!!! hahahahaha!

[figueroa661]

A great interpretation of SHakespeare. The plays are so much more enjoyable when acted than on the page alone!

Thanks for posting

[tangoseven70]

This is my favorite version on YouTube of Feste's last song. I love the contrast between the speaker in the song and the singer's relative youth. I think the performance really carries off a surprisingly bittersweet ending.

[joyleng]

@tangoseven70

Indeed! I am pleasantly surprised at this rendition.

Best ever! :)

[GreatGrumbledook]

This version of Twelfth Night (or what you will) is like a good old wine: The label may be withered a bit but the content of the bottle is far better than any of the ones with new labels; by far the best version I have ever seen; though the idea of having an actress play both Viola and Sebastian is a bit odd: There should be twin actor and actress couples around to perform such a task; and yes: Twelfth Night is one of my favourite Shakespeare comedies, though there is almost nothing comical!

[joyleng]

@GreatGrumbledook

I know what you mean.

You see, in those times, Plato's definition of comedy is anything that does not qualify as a tragedy.

Adding humour to a play was an early modern invention.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@joyleng: I afraid not: Since Aristophanes lived at the days of Plato and his plays are known as the Elder Comedy and they are defiantly a lot funny and political too; so there is no escape. Besides: Socrates (since Plato is his mere scribbler) was an outspoken detractor of all acting and representing art, stating that such artists only draw shadow images of the things, which have no connection with the divine ideas or their earthly incarnations; so you could ask an abstainer as well about wine!

[Countrygirltori24]

Thank you for posting this. It helped me follow the play. I don't like reading Shakespeare, but I do enjoy his plays. I enjoy seeing it performed as it should be and not just reading the words on paper.

[joyleng]

@Countrygirltori24

Concur with you completely though if you can, read the play again after watching the play.

The words will come alive for you and it will be a pleasurable experience of a different sort.

Enjoy! :)

[Royford2]

"BYTHELORDMADAM!" - too funny.

I felt the production really touched on most of the play's potential for comedy. Best I've seen yet.

Great side commentary!

[way2musical]

I LOVE Feste.

I'm auditioning to play him in my school's production.

Any suggestions? (Character quirks, etc.)

[misspinaberry]

Feste is AWESOME. Im playing her (they are changing the part to a girl) in a production of this next month. I would suggest to have a good voice (which Im thinking that youre musical because of youre name lol) and when you audition, try to overdo it cause the more you overdo it, the better Feste is. Also- background on the character- Feste knows that Viola is Sebastian because she is the smartest in the whole play. Feste is SO fun to play. Message me if you have anymore questions!!!

[PolyphonicSeduction]

I really aprecciate this being uploaded. Great performance and nearly word for word.

great performance.

[rusalichka]

thank you so much for this...it helped me read the play because it was so close to the actual text...i realized that the movie "she's the man" got its idea from this play lol, same names

[WhiteRoses4Ever]

Poor Malivio. I can't believe that's Obiwan from Star Wars. He's so funny.

[princeminski47]

@WhiteRoses4Ever I find your lack of couth disturbing.

[Kanaris44]

Thank you so much for uploading this!

[Concetta20]

I love Tommy Steele!

[SilentStep]

Thank you so very much for uploading this! I never would have seen it otherwise, and I'm always extremely glad to find another production of Twelfth Night. This is one of the better ones I've seen.

[Sgtfluffball]

Kill me

[drcoxcentral]

i think it is a shame that Alec Guinness is only remembered as Obi - Wan because he did a lot of great memorable on film, TV, and stage.

[Royford2]

I think he's lucky to be remembered at all. The rest of the actors are now virtually unknown. Tis a shame.

[drcoxcentral]

True, True.