Shakespeare's Timon of Athens: start of play (1981 TV)

William Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", Act 1, scene one (Arden edition), line 1 to line 225 (225: Apemantus' "Then thou liest. Look in thy last work,/where thu hast feign'd him a worthy fellow")

Stanley Wells, writes in "Shakespeare Quarterly" about these Johnathan Miller productionsSt:

If production styles have not on the whole been especially illuminating or penetrating, they have nevertheless had their originalities and even their
brilliancies...Still, more of a director's success was Jonathan Miller's handling of the first part of "Timon of Athens", a difficult because partially
unrealized play. Dr. Miller's skillfully filled in the crevices of the text, setting the opening scene at a lavish reception which made an appropriate
background to Jonathan Pryce's portrayal of Timon's touchingly obsessive generosity. A realistic, and voraciously devoured, banquet reinforced the
recurrent imagery of food and eating which is an essential part of Shakespeare's exploration of false and true values; and the masque was an admirable,
genuinely and relevantly educational piece of period reconstruction. This seemed to me to be the kind of directorial brilliance which serves the play,
realization rather than self-assertive interpretation.

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[jiminyjim]

the problem is, Lytton333, the poet and the painter are supposed to be pretentious and conceited in the play. It could be that you've mistaken intentionally ostentatious characters for overacting.

[jesoby]

Men shut their doors against a setting sun - great line from this play.

[Lytton333]

For the first two players, fortune doth gabble here like a turkey-bird..

Less 'acting' needed methinks..

[flubberduky]

my name is timon!!!!

[beretcat]

Will there be more posted from the play?

[firebreathone]

Thank you very much!