Reader Reviews
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End)
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 | Brilliant! - no other words can describe it. Funny, clever and addictive.. and if you're not a fan of the play - see it purely for Mark Rylance, everyone is saying how good he is, and it's all true. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 01 Sep 02 |
| Hilarious!! the best play I've ever seen. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 28 Aug 02 |
| Forget the RSC, which has murdered every Shakespeare play it has got its updating hands on in recent years. If you want the real McCoy, hie thee to the Globe. Rylance infuses Olivia with both a squeaking aristocratic dignity and an underlying panic. "Yes - er..well, you m-m-m-ight do much", she gaspingly intones as Michael Brown's Viola ardently woos her as Cesario. Malvolio's letter scene is capped by a hilarious encore: "Yet here's a postscript", he rushes on with, having already existed (not in the original, but in its spirit). This is full of laughs, magic, perturbation, mockery, cruelty and romance. How the lawyers at its first Middle Temple performance (Christmas 1602, I think) must have roared. Rylance's company has hit the nail on the head with this one. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 08 Aug 02 |
| This production of competition winners does not disappoint. There is some rich comedy in the form of a sexy absurd play and an Irish graveyard duologue from one of the winners; the audience positively lap it up. The first winner, a knowing Picasso trying to seduce a housewife in heaven is over long and the social drama Holding On isn't long enough despite fine performances. Such comments are not to decry this production though; worth a visit to the Hen and Chicken. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 28 May 02 |
| I saw this production at the Middle Temple and was exceptionally impressed by its clarity and freshness. Its greatest strength is Mark Rylance's astonishing Olivia - he breathes new life into this part showing again and again what a remarkable actor he is. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 26 May 02 |
