Tuesday, April 25, 2017

SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY: TEN BEST MALE SUPPORTING PERFORMANCES

Happy birthday to William Shakespeare... born 453 years ago (and died 401 years ago).

Eight years ago I compiled four Top Ten lists of my favourite Shakespeare performances - lead & supporting male and lead & supporting female.

Eight years is a long time in theatre-going so to celebrate the greatest playwright ever, here is my updated list of favourite actors in key supporting roles; these are the ones that all new interpretations are judged against:

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (in alphabetical order):

 MICHAEL BRYANT (Polonius - 1989)

RON COOK (Lear's Fool - 2010)

FINBAR LYNCH (Edmund - 1997)

DEREK NEWARK (Bottom - 1983)

ADRIAN SCARBOROUGH (Lear's Fool - 2014)

 JACK SHEPHERD (Puck - 1983)

ANTONY SHER (Lear's Fool - 1983)

STANLEY TOWNSEND (Kent - 2014)

PETER WIGHT (Polonius - 2017)

CLIVE WOOD (Edmund - 1983)

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