Alan Rickman in "Play" by Samuel Beckett (part 1)

[YouSuckHaveANiceDay]

My brain just exploded. What is this about?

[beakuganninja]

I love that Alan Rickman seems to have hiccups every so often XD

[shatteredmirror606]

Absolutely incredible. Alan Rickman is a beast - and I mean that in a good way.

[Timthethespian89]

I want to get this....but I don't.

[ScarletMai]

intense!

[Mishielaa]

Juliet Stevenson is very good. Alan as well. :D

[hobs2525]

6:43

[pliskin100]

This is the most pretentious thing I have ever seen.

[DCNY31279]

One can take it as either hell or purgatory.

[rontomcol]

"Personally, I always prefer Lipton's" 5.15 hahaha!!!

[b1aflatoxin]

If you like this, then CLICK THUMBS UP.

Great make-up, sets, background and sound.

Great acting, directing and editing.

Great idea for a short.

Great writer.

THX

[Keeleycide]

I remember this being on daytime tv when I was a little younger. I was really ill and decied to take a day off and I turned this on. It was so wonderfully bizare that I could not switch it over. I kept telling everyone about it and all they did was frown :P "Alan Rickman was in an urn... mumbling!"... "yerrr right Keeley" :P

[ScrubbleShuckleX]

@Keeleycide I had the same experience. I remember seeing this on television years ago when I was younger and it almost traumatized me. It is so strange and I have been looking for this video for so long. It has been in the back of my head since I was younger and I would think about it sometimes but always forgetting about it and never searching for it until tonight. All I knew from when I was younger was that Alan Rickman was in it and I remembered this video I first saw the Harry Potter movies

[PhoenixLament87]

@ScrubbleShuckleX That is exactly my experience. I remember catching it late at night on PBS a few years back. Freaked me out, but I couldn't change the channel! Of course, it's brilliant writing.

[Keeleycide]

They have such wonderful voices, very well spoken and so clear! I'm from Yorkshire and would love to speak like that! Thats it! I'm moving and refuse to speak with this stuuuuupid accent :P

[posh915]

woww... you reallyy can understand what they are saying

the complete second time you listen to it...

i love thiss.. : ]

[BlueAsianDragon]

could someone tell me what is the point of this'? why the director wanted to make this?

[bobsmedly]

Brilliant. Pure Brilliance.

[DawnaCC]

The 2 actresses are Kristin Scott Thomas on the left and on the right Alans friend, and one of our best stage actresses, the wonderful Juliet Stevenson

[anbmjj]

I love Alan Rickman but who are those other actresses? Their performances seemed just as stirring/amazing as Alan's. Anyone know?

[YettiYogiBear]

Every time I rewatch this, it becomes more clearer, and their lines actually seem to become slower and more coherent each time.

[TheLimbo89]

fantastico!

[MadyRickman]

sono contenta che ti piaccia! anche secondo me è fantastico!

[MrSeanMDickinson]

vase stage right looks like a female jim carrey! This seems directed by david fincher

[cyrax023]

5:15

lol

[budda1968]

wow, that is fantastic, my son showed me this as he's studying drama, incredible performance and great writing, Alan Rickman is a star, plays a fantastic baddy

[RavenclawStudent]

So which one is his wife and which one is his mistress? Thank you so much for uploading!

[AkkarinHighlord]

Beckett, the master of the theatre of the absurd

[xwillnotbetelevisedx]

Thanks a million times for uploading this!

[jkcrystal2]

wow that was weird and what is this about made i asked if that ok with u ?

ALan rickman is cool and great too heheh

[M3LL090]

dont understand what the whole point ... anyone can explain please!

[MrNobleSavagery]

Beckett is essentially holding a mirror up to humanity and saying, "look how emasculated you have become".

[273jat273]

Incredible

[AboveTheTrees]

i like it a lot (wonderful play and acting work) but in my opinion the subjetive use of the camera is quite anti-Beckett

[Folkmann]

You have a point. But if you read the original script Beckett writes in the ..uumm.. aarh I've forgotten the word, but not the text, but explanation of what's happening he actually wrote that a spot should change from face to face. So this is kinda the film-way

[problemchimp2]

fantastic

[seabury]

this seems so challenging, to memorize all these lines and speak so fast and still make it flow and be relatively understandable. They sound just like I do in my head!! Wonderful actors.

[P3R51ANPR1D3]

if anyone can rewrite/ or make a subtiltle of what they were saying, because im a hearing inpaired, and my speakers sucks. So if you can send a link or explain, or type their lines... i would very much appreciate it.

thanks

[Ninaantenor]

@P3R51ANPR1D3 , good idea!!!! I am from Brasil and I have a lot of difficulties to undantend.

[SemiramisAudron]

@Ninaantenor Google "Play Samuel Beckett" there should be a scribd.com link

[buggld]

this is really amazing im rather still young now so i had to watch it a few to times to understand but it really is brilliant

[HDok]

Beckett is really amazing, especially played by great actors.

[insanelysa]

I deeply admire this!

The work they must've gone through to know the lines, the makeup, inspiration...

This is AMAZING!

It almost seems...like it's real. As if this IS how we'll end up. if we're cremated that is. It intrigues me...how we talk to ourselves so fast and understand completely, but when actually said...is almost head-aching.

[domokell89]

Its not as hard as you think it is. I did it as one of my senior pieces, the hardest part is saying it quick while maintaining the punctuation, grate play no pun intended

[artsgirl07]

we watched this in one of my English classes last semester -- very bizarre, but cool. I like the camera angles.

[emmypf]

We watched this in drama today. We're studying absurd theatre. Watching this everyone was like (wtf??!!) :|

[CoinOperatedHate]

We studied this play in creative writing. They're stories are all related. The man cheated on his wife. They basically killed one another or committed suicide. The reason why in the beginning they show them talking all together is because they are dead in earns and they basically spend the rest of their after life telling their story completely unaware of everyone and everything else.

[mucjka]

well, that`s excatly inside our minds... we talk to ourselves even much faster, all the time... Also, I like the scenography... hehe, gives a scarry note :)

[ishotawarhol]

amazing.

[PicturePictures]

That's. just. scary.

*shivers*

[kmv1775]

Where can I find this - off of Youtube?

[MadyRickman]

I download this on emule.

[zeromenace]

i understand whats going on... but it hurts my head to listen to such quick talking..

i havent read up on this play....but not making much sense of it..

[lihanljz]

Wow, they speak so quikly!!