Mark Rylance Legacy?
Mark Rylance Legacy?
broadwayman17
Broadway Star Joined: 10/27/07
#1Mark Rylance Legacy?
Posted: 10/20/13 at 7:33pmReading over the Twelfth Night and Richard III preview threads and seeing all the raves for Rylance's work and thinking about his impressive stats so far (5 roles over 3 seasons with 2 lead actor Tony Awards) I was curious where people would rate him currently in regards to his legacy as an actor on Broadway
Yes, but sometimes people have a third deeper layer thats the same as the first. Like pie. Dr. Horrible
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#2Mark Rylance Legacy?
Posted: 10/20/13 at 7:54pm
Schtick and tics.
You just described every post you've ever made on this board.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#3Mark Rylance Legacy?
Posted: 10/20/13 at 10:31pm
What kind of "legacy" can he have in such a short time? There can't be any true assessment of any 'legacy' this close to his work.
I suspect we will see much more of him, but I'm not sure he will be talked about for all of time.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#4Mark Rylance Legacy?
Posted: 10/20/13 at 10:47pmhe has a 3 decade long history in england and over there is already considered the next Olivier, to say he has no legacy after such a short period shows how little you are familiar with his actual career
#6Mark Rylance Legacy?
Posted: 10/21/13 at 11:36amHis career also includes a decade-long stint as the original Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe, a tremendous theatre company he clearly played an instrumental role in shaping and refining.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#7Mark Rylance Legacy?
Posted: 10/21/13 at 2:06pm
Excuse me...YOU said his legacy on Broadway, not to the theatrical world.
A legacy refers to what's left behind after one's DEATH, so it's STILL to early to know.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#8Mark Rylance Legacy?
Posted: 10/21/13 at 3:55pmHe helped create the "original practices" at Shakespeare's Globe in London and was instrumental in bringing Lecoq's theater of physical performance and clowning into mainstream performance in the UK. My guess is that neither of those things will mean much to American audiences who will see him primarily as a great or not great actor.
#9Mark Rylance Legacy?
Posted: 10/21/13 at 8:33pmRylance is like cilantro - people tend to love or hate him. I love him, but like cilantro, I wouldn't put him in everything. The first time I saw him was in La Bete - when he blew onstage with that endless monologue, I was bowled over. My mouth was literally hanging open by the end of it. I'm sure he'll keep on getting Tonys, and giving increasingly eccentric Tony acceptance speeches.
