#Shakespeare actor

[bodhrancomedy]

In King Lear (III:vii) there is a man who is such a minor character that Shakespeare has not given him even a name: he is merely 'First Servant'. All the characters around him – Regan, Cornwall, and Edmund – have fine, long term plans. They think they know how the story is going to end, and they are quite wrong. The servant has no such delusions. He has no notion how the play is going to go. But he understands the present scene. He sees an abomination (the blinding of old Gloucester) taking place. He will not stand it. His sword is out and pointed as his master’s breast in a moment: then Regan stabs him dead from behind. That is his whole part: eight lines all told. But if it were real life and not a play, that is the part it would be best to have acted.

- CS Lewis on King Lear.

[gauntletqueen]

@thestuffedalligator I made you a soundpost hope you like it!

[aq2003]

for the love of fucking god hello .

[atwellfilm]

Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston in rehearsals for the play 'Much Ado About Nothing'.

[olemisekunst]

Does Tom Hiddleston know his lines? 🎭

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

From behind the scenes of the Hamlet production at the RSC (2025).

[silverdoe]

I still cannot believe this man hasn't earned all the praise and awards a performance of this level merits

[ihearttseliot]

Shedding Falstaff

Hair/Grooming by Luke Davies

[ingravinoveritas]

Beautiful photos of David with Sir Patrick Stewart in rehearsals for Hamlet.

[hamletthedane]

Obtained a (digital) edition of Hamlet that - for some reason - decided to illustrate Horatio and Hamlet’s scenes using art lifted from Mark Twain’s first edition of The Prince and The Pauper. And frankly it’s incredible:

I mean they’re not wrong for this choice, but it was definitely a choice

[bodhrancomedy]

I forgot that I have 12 years of having to analyse Shakespeare’s language, so here is Puck’s speech about the backstory to Midsummer Night’s Dream spoken as modern gossip.

(This was way harder to perform than the Shakespeare version. Also Titania is 100% in the right here. The Prince is the half-orphaned son of one of her friends and followers whom she promised to look after if something happened)

[bardace]

I like how he’s holding the poisoned goblet like it’s a bug he caught in animal crossing

[atwellfilm]

Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston play guessing Shakespeare's plays based on emojis 🎭

[ineffablelifetoallmetatrons]

gulp

[baltimoresciencefictionsociety]