Mark Rylance
- Synopsis
- Television interview with actor and first artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Mark Rylance, about his life and career, especially his relationship with Shakespeare and his controversial ideas about Shakespeare’s authorship.
Rylance speaks of how his father helped him appreciate Shakespeare by regarding the plays as stories to be told. He comments on his aversion to director-led Shakespeare during his time at the RSC in the 1980s where actors had little or no interpretative input. On the authorship question Rylance says he is ready to step away having lost faith with Shakespeare academia whose recent responses to the issue [triggered by the release of ANONYMOUS] he finds ‘shameful’ and ‘repressive’. He feels that even Stratfordians would find there are many benefits to be gained from ‘doubting’. He is critical of the critics who he feels made no effort to understand what he was trying to achieve and explore with his all-male casting of plays at the Globe. Finally he reflects on what he might have done had he not become an actor and makes a persuasive case for the opportunities for contemplation and observance to be found in the socially useful job of street cleaning. - Series
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- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Television
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- gender representation; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Authorship; All-male casts; Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Credits
- Director
- Anya Saunders
- Producer
- Anya Saunders
- Contributor
- Mark Lawson; Mark Rylance
Production Company
- Name
BBC Productions
Archive
- Name
BFI National Archive
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/searching-access-collections/research-viewing-services External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7436 0165
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
- Name
BoB
- bob@learningonscreen.ac.uk
- Web
- https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 3743 2345
- Address
- Learning on Screen - the British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council
330 Holborn Gate
1st Floor, Suite 120
London
WC1V 7QH - Notes
- Formerly a service from BUFVC, British Universities Film & Video Council
- Name
Learning on Screen Off-Air Recording Back-up Service
- services@bufvc.ac.uk
- Web
- http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/offair External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7393 1514
- Fax
- 020 7393 1555
- Address
- For Learning on Screen Members only
77 Wells Street
London
W1T 3QJ
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