PATRICK STEWART's advice on "Tomorrow & Tomorrow & ..."
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Actor Patrick Stewart of MACBETH shares Ian McKellen's advice on how to deliver Shakespeare great "tale told by an idiot" soliloquy. This interview on THEATER TALK premieres on PBS/Thirteen, Friday, May 16 at 12:30 AM.
What strikes me most about Patrick Stewart in most any interview I've ever seen him do is how incredibly gracious he is in crediting his influences, and how much he still seems to consider himself almost a novice compared to his peers. Despite his own bona fide celebrity and accolades, he is constantly seeking to evolve as a student of his craft, and I respect him so much for that.
Right. That's what greatness is made of. His "Tomorrow and tomorrow" is both true and disquieting, as art is supposed to pose questions more than giving answers.
Yes, he's wonderful. He was guest lecturer in my Shakespeare class (pre-TNG), and I can assure you he is every bit as gracious and down-to-earth with a classroom of students. When the class was over, I persuaded him to autograph my Shakespeare book.
It's true that the thing that separates a great Shakespearean actor from a mediocre one is the ability to make the dialog feel like organic speech rather than a performance of lines. Even some otherwise great actors don't have that.
Patrick Stewart played "is this a dagger" as a psychopath, a serial killer, a real lunatic...thrilling! suddenly, he rendered "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" as a tired, broken man...intriguing..genial! since psychpaths are often unstable...unpredictable
For my GCSE Drama monologue, I performed the “is this a dagger” soliloquy, using Patrick Stewart’s version heavily as the inspiration. Helped me to understand the meaning better as well since Shakespeare can be tough to understand.
@@billysinge8977 Yes, definitely, artistic things can be hard to understand. I well recall an incident when, as a boy, my father took us to an art gallery. He stood in front of one particular picture, pondered for a while and then, peering at the name-plate below the picture, he said "is this a Degas I see before me?" My Mum laughed; but I never understood, until much later.
Mckellan's MacBeth is the best. we've seen and read, esp MacBeth so often, but watching his MacBeth just grabbed me, and when he says Tomorrow, and tomorrow. . . not only is he looking onto an abyss, he's grabbed us by the neck and forced us to face the abyss with him.
I love how in McKellen's the first tomorrow is just a tomorrow. Then there's a long pause (4 seconds) as the word sinks in, he sees the abyss, and then continues.
McKellen knew that If you look at the line in iambic pentameter-di-DUM-di-DUM-di-all the "ANDs" are stressed. Also, it breaks standard pentameter by (feminine) ending on an unstressed 11th syllable, which I think Shakespeare may have added to indicate a trailing off, his own form of an ellipsis (. . .).
That makes sense. Tomorrow *and*... Tomorrow *and*... Tomorrow. It renders the line as an unending, hellish torment, as if Macbeth's misfortunes will never end until he himself exits the stage.
@TaijiBum sure, back in the eighties I was a M.F.A directing student, and was interning at t theater in NYC, and became friendly with the stgae manager, and the great Patrick Stewart ( this was before star trek ofcourse) was performing and one of the bit players was very ill, and they needed a someone to go on stage and give Mr. Stewart a letter and deliver a line like " for you" to him, and they sent me out. Afterwards he was very gracious and joked about the directing student from TX NY debut
Thanks.
It's always reassuring to hear of someone you look up to in a positive light.
The man is a master of his craft indeed.
Acting is the art of becoming the living breath of the character portrayed.
Olivier, McKellen, Brando.
I have been onsatge with him before, he is a master!
What an honor , i feel honored watching him on television 😊👍
What a legend, he's the head chancellor of my university, at Huddersfield though, I too wished it was Mutant School!
It's Huddersfield mate, mutants everywhere
I need to speak this part as part of my GCSEs and Sir Patrick Stewart's advice is so helpful
Same with music.
It’s always best when recoded when it’s fresh. The more you try to “finish” it, it becomes less.
The organic emotion is what sells it, but people will know if it’s false.
If anyone has seen McKellen in Extras, they’d realise how funny the ‘as if you were saying it for the first time’ line is
There's a video here on youtube of Sir Ian at the time of his early 1980s Macbeth talking about how actors should approach Macbeth and that speech in particular
WOW! AS A PLAYWRIGHT/ LIBRETTIST AND I RECEIVE THIS MOMENT! IT HAS OPEN SO MUCH TO ME
THANK YOU! this helped me out with my scene so much aghh
Great skill and prominence in a field of art can only be presented by such men. Also the lengths in which they would go to show you. Interestingly it is as if you must give yourself up to it, and then only will it give you a way to be yourself again.
Patrick is the man.
Ian brought up an interesting point about the Tomorrow soliloquy. The last word of each line establishes the cadence and mood and informs the actor how to deliver it.
hereafter
word
tomorrow
day
time
fools
candle
player
stage
tale
fury
... nothing
He's got a nice voice
my newfound interest
i was thinking about this interview the other day thank you :)
you rule patrick
It’s a stressed syllable, so yup,
And gives you all the power. Hmmmm
@Tijnvaassen Yes, he and Tom Selleck!
This woman is playing "have my voice heard" on the hardest difficulty.
I'm curious to hear more. Would you mind sharing?
I love Denzel but I feel like he should have watched this before he filmed that soliloquy.
DOES PICARD NOT AGE?
ThymineC
Well...he is thinning on top a bit.
Very slowly. He made it so.
ThymineC
The Borg cured aging
And.
@dagorlad3
Best comment EVER on a youtube posting.
i trust you'll understand the reference to another scottish tragedy without my having to name the play
what you did there, I see it.
You mean Professor X and Magneto.
Wait, how does he have a mustache?
Amazing point that Stewart makes about making sure to portray how an actor has to yeah- sort of FOOL people into a certain mode of having them BELIEVE that you, as the actor, needs to no longer be Sir Patrick Stewart - the actor- BUT that you're completely someone ELSE in your scene dialog. Completely reminds me OF: IF you're writing different kinds of characters of different: ages, nationalities AND beliefs- they're NOT going to basically "talk like how YOU would"- they're going to have DIFFERENT: spoken word dialog, ways they're going to act AND you must depict their plausible demeanors referenced off realistically speaking- very different kinds of how you know as tastefully as possible real: bad, good, weird and interesting people have been for example from history! LOL!
Hehehehehehhehehehehehe
@dagorlad3 Seriously... the guys who played Professor X and Magneto together for like 8 fucking years are in a store, and you imagine them as Captain Picard and Gandalf?
Pretentious, moi?
Patrick Stewart doesn't understand Macbeth and doesn't know how to interpret Macbeth - his "movie" was absolutely idiotic - one of the worst readings of Macbeth soliloquys in Film History .. He completely mis-reads the "Tomorrow" monologue and doesn't understand why Macbeth says "Tomorrow. And Tomorrow. And Tomorrow." He doesn't get the feeling, the emotion, behind each Tomorrow, and it negatively affects the rest of the Monologue -- Stewart's 'Macbeth' is a waste of time - Watch Brad Hartliep's performance of Macbeth instead. He's one of the few Shakespearean-Trained actors who truly understands the motives of Macbeth and accurately breaks down the character's faults, for one of the best performances you will ever experience ..
This comment is so fucking funny.
@dagorlad3 Seriously... the guys who played Professor X and Magneto together for like 8 fucking years are in a store, and you imagine them as Captain Picard and Gandalf?
I'm over 30, that's why.