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	MARK RYLANCE
		Rylance has such vocal virtuosity that at times he seems to be toying with the text.
		Mark Rylance's stammering, fluttery Olivia is exquisite: gliding across the stage, head in the clouds, she flinches at real, sullied life - uncle Toby drunk, Malvolio capering - and is left utterly breathless by her encounter with Viola/Cesario.
		Rylance's minute attention to detail renders Olivia's struggles to woo this mysterious boy, and her abashed amazement when Viola's identity is revealed, superbly comic and almost unbearably poignant.
	members.aol.com /actorsite/citz/mrindex.htm (1058 words)

	Mark Rylance as Hamlet
		Rylance's riveting tremulo Hamlet is a performance which is often exquisite and affecting in its seesaw of misery and rage and sense of futility.
		Mark Rylance, who plays the Prince, is clearly an actor with a future, but on this occasion, veering between tremulous weakness and mad pranks, he isn't really given a chance.
		Mark Rylance's Hamlet in Ron Daniel's RSC production at the Barbican, the man who instructs his actors not to be coarse, bares his bottom to Polonius.
	members.aol.com /xtralinks/mrhamlet.htm (1873 words)

	Shakespeare Fellowship Discussion Boards: Mark Rylance in The Tempest
		The actors (Mark Rylance, Alex Hasell and Edward Hogg) certainly have to work hard and use all their resources of versatility to embody the differing characters without the visual aid of separate costumes.
		Re: Mark Rylance in The Tempest [Re: ligonkc]
		Rylance stills the house, as only he can, in the abjuring-of-magic speech, when he movingly lets go of the rope, which is throughout an image of both restraint and freedom.
	www.shakespearefellowship.org /ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/27229/Main/27229 (1097 words)

	Stage Preview: Shakespearean company brings an original 'Twelfth Night' to Pittsburgh
		As he talks, Rylance suddenly imagines doing "King Lear" in the very same Banqueting Hall in Whitehall where Charles I heard it as a boy and was later tried: "The warnings Shakespeare was giving those leaders, to beware of separating themselves from the people, were not heeded," he exclaims, starting off on a fresh tack.
		Rylance's wife, Claire van Kampen, the company's master of theater music, says, "I just don't believe it was young boys." Boys of 14 or 15 already have deep voices, she notes, so if voice were the chief concern, they would have had to use children, who could hardly play such complex roles.
		Rylance believes Shakespeare's phrase, "the two hours' traffic of the stage" is literal, though he assumes "two hours" could mean "less than three." Even so, that would take a speed difficult for modern ears.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20031102globe1102fnp2.asp (2356 words)

	MPR: Guthrie hosts an 'original' Twelfth Night
		Minneapolis, Minn. — Mark Rylance sits in a Guthrie Theater office to explain "original practices." The idea came up after a multi-million dollar replica of the Globe was built in London.
		Rylance points out that the only place for an Elizabethan to have heard something as loud as, say, a garbage truck, was on a battlefield.
		Rylance says his company has found that this is somewhat of a lost art, but they are working on getting it right.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2003/11/05_kerre_shakespeare (946 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| What I want next for the Globe
		Rylance's quiet and earnest manner hid, we now know, a dynamism and vision to match his mentor's.
		Rylance, 44, has famously done all-male, all-female, modern-dress, original-practices and, by the end of the 2004 season starting next month, original-pronunciation productions.
		When Rylance does depart his beloved Globe, it's probable that his name will again be linked with artistic directorships of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, as it was when both posts were recently vacant.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/04/20/btry20.xml (1079 words)

	at_web1201_globe.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Mark Rylance is iconoclastic and original in both his areas of expertise—and an intelligent and imaginative man of the theatre.
		Mark was in the middle of the "Old Men" sketch, and he stopped the rehearsal because he didn’t know what was going on or where the focus was.
		Mark sees it, in its essence (or he keeps harping on it), as a plea or treatise or thematic material to a homeopathic view of the theatre as a healing method.
	www.tcg.org /am_theatre/at_articles/AT_Volume_18/December01/at_web1201_globe.html (5295 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Rylance, about to get clamped into the corset that strongly defines his hilariously reined-in, touching and geisha-like Olivia, padded over to have a word.
		Clenched into his corset, Rylance sweeps round the stage with the kinetic constipation (at once terribly funny and touching) of a Japanese actor in kabuki.
		He rides the audience with consummate equestrian skill ("It's like being a jockey – but of course a horse race is essentially about the horse") and he syncopates the iambic pentameter with the fertile variety with which Picasso poured forth different paintings of the same subject.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /theatre/interviews/article200542.ece (2001 words)

	Angels and Insects [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		Rylance is a perfect hero to root for, with his impeccable manners and soothing Scottish tones.
		A young naturalist, William Adamson (Mark Rylance), returns from ten years in the Amazon collecting rare specimens, only to see all but one butterfly lost in a shipwreck.
		It is also marvelously acted by all with virtuoso performances by Mark Rylance and Kristin Scott Thomas.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/B00005UJYD/Angels_&_Insects.html (1385 words)

	Shakespeare Magazine ~ The Opening of the Globe
		The new London theatre's opening will be marked with a two-week "Festival of Firsts," highlighted by a June 12th "Triumphes and Mirth' performance for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
		Rylance was pleased with the diversity of the audience.
		Despite the many problems and challenges involved in bringing the new Globe into being, Rylance is thrilled to be part of a venture so significant.
	www.shakespearemag.com /spring97/globe.asp (1066 words)

	JS Online: Actor steps into another woman's shoes
		As the sun streamed into The Globe restaurant, Rylance warmed to his theme: "It's right to consider a piece of art within the context of the time in which it was made.
		In 1999, Rylance played Cleopatra in an all-male "Antony and Cleopatra" at The Globe in a performance that was a dry run for his white-faced, delicate Olivia.
		It was after finishing school in Milwaukee that Rylance returned to Britain to go to drama school, in the process changing his surname from Waters to Rylance - there was already a Mark Waters in Equity, the actors' union.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/oct03/179794.asp (761 words)

	markrylance
		So Mark was trying to lay low with me on this as he was the leading candidate for director of the Globe Theatre at the time.
		Mark would make some interesting observations on the authorship but I had to go through the universe of wisdom, alchemy, kabalah, the Tree of Life before getting his statement.
		The next time I saw Mark would be in 1997 at the Globe in the lobby, he was in between Saturday matinee performances and obliging his fans who were waiting for autographs.
	www.sirbacon.org /markrylance.htm (4167 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Mark Rylance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Better known for his work on the English stage than for his onscreen roles, Mark Rylance made a name for himself on the American art house circuit in 2001 with his performance in Patrice Chéreau's controversial melodrama Intimacy.
		For his portrayal of Jay, a self-destructive bartender engaged in a torrid affair with a married woman, Rylance was required to strip off both his clothes and his emotional inhibitions.
		Rylance first made a notable impression on audiences on both sides of the Atlantic in 1995 -- the same year he became the Globe's director -- when he portrayed an explorer/scientist who marries into an insidiously dysfunctional family in Philip Haas' Angels and Insects.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/55069/bio.jhtml (411 words)

	Julius Caesar on stage at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - ticket buying and theater guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Directed by Mark Rylance, this production will be played in recreated clothing of the period, exploring original playing practices with an all male cast and live music played on early instruments.
		"...Director Mark Rylance and his merry band of (mostly) men celebrate the 400th anniversary of the original Globe with a boisterous revival of the Roman play which figured in that first 1599 season.
		Rylance's production follows the practice of having the Romans dressed in contemporary Elizabethan garb (ruffs et al) with antique adjustments, like the togas that are tied over this attire in the assassination scene.
	www.albemarle-london.com /g-caesar.html (1092 words)

	village voice > film > Intimacy's Mark Rylance by Jessica Winter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Mark Rylance unwittingly auditioned for the lead role in Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy—as a bartender who leaves his wife and sons for a dank flat and weekly anonymous sex with a married woman—by playing the Queen of the Nile.
		Rylance's tenure as the Globe's first artistic director has been no less unpredictable—at the time of his appointment in 1995, he was in rehearsals as actor and director for the infamous Hare Krishna Macbeth, in which the robed, besandaled actors spoke their lines with American accents and Lady Macbeth peed during the sleepwalking scene.
		Right now, Rylance is preparing an all-male Twelfth Night to mark the 400th anniversary of its first recorded performance, and in March he brings the Globe's pomo staging of Cymbeline—seven actors in matching pajamas juggling multiple roles—to BAM.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0143/winter.php (729 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| What now for the Globe without Mark Rylance?
		Rylance himself would probably be horrified to be dubbed the Donald Wolfit of Southwark.
		I was dismayed last year to see Richard II treated as a star vehicle in which Rylance returned to the bad old tradition of playing the king as a winsome dandy waving a lace kerchief: no hint of the political complexity of a play in which Bolingbroke is every bit as crucial as the king.
		Undeniably, Rylance has made it a popular space where audiences are prepared to put up with the inclement weather, bossy ushers and physical discomfort for the sake of a star performer.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1308392,00.html (899 words)

	London Shakespeares Globe Theatre guide and information on plays and events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Rylance brilliantly captures a noble, delicate mind on the very brink of collapse.
		Rylance is one of nature's Hamlets: swift, alert, humorous and capable of combining whimsical dottiness with a troubled inner life.
		When his prince diffidently wishes that his "too, too solid flesh would melt", his sagging, fl-clad body is actually facing the back of the stage; when he says he can inwardly see his father, he turns his pale face to Horatio and quietly sobs; and he is as audible as he is emotionally truthful...
	www.albemarle-london.com /g-hamlet.html (971 words)

	Well Furlong - Reviews of the 2005 Season
		Mark Rylance seems to be jumping around the stage facing left and right, trying to play both sides of a series of duologues!
		Mark Rylance took over the role until a replacement could be found, but the Globe stalwart and fine actor John McEnery has now assumed the role for the rest of the season..
		Juliet Rylance in her first season at the Globe was a charming Perdita.
	wellfurlong.co.uk /theatre/globe05.htm (2891 words)

	TIME.com: A Real Role Model -- Aug. 23, 1999 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		But Rylance insists he is not playing Cleopatra just because it was standard practice for men to play women 400 years ago.
		Alongside his talents as an actor, Rylance is known for his unorthodox beliefs about the true provenance of Shakespeare's plays (Bacon, anyone?) and his interest in their use of symbols derived from alchemy and the Jewish mystical tradition of the Cabala.
		Rylance's decision this year to direct for the first time (he chose Julius Caesar, and a period setting) and to play Cleopatra signals a readiness to take more personal risks now that the pressures of the launch have eased.
	time.com /time/magazine/intl/article/0,9171,1107990823-30628-1,00.html (854 words)

	Shakespeare Fellowship Discussion Boards: Mark Rylance to quit Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Peter Dawkins, an adviser to the Globe who is helping to lead a series of conferences there on the plays of its 2004 season, wrote the book, and Mark Rylance, the actor and director, who is artistic director of the Globe and leads its authorship exploration, wrote the introduction.
		Citing Bacon's "insistence that we look accurately at nature not just stay in an Aristotelian kind of philosophical world of learning as was being taught to him when he was at Cambridge," as well as what Bacon wrote about poetry, his love of Julius Caesar and his love for fables, Mr.
		Rylance is the trust's chairman, and he and Mr.
	www.shakespearefellowship.org /ubbthreads/showthreaded.php/Number/18342 (1106 words)

	Rylance leaves the Globe \| London Theatre Guide
		Shakespeare’s Globe’s Artistic Director Mark Rylance has announced he will step down from his post in December 2005 at the end of his tenth year at the Bankside venue.
		Rylance was appointed to the post in 1995 and opened the venue in the title role of Henry V in June 1997.
		Rylance’s tenure has also seen construction start on the Inigo Jones Theatre, an early 17th style playhouse based on designs by one of England’s most famous renaissance architects.
	www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /news/display/cm/contentId/81884 (285 words)

	Well Furlong - New Globe Playhouse - 1999 Season
		For this season the director of the Globe, Mark Rylance had replaced the modern concept of producer, with co-direction by a Master of Verse and a Master of Play.
		When I heard that this was to be produced, I said that I hoped Mark Rylance had found a strong enough actor to play the queen.
		I think that hope was fulfilled for the most part; even though Rylance impersonated a woman very well indeed and was a beguiling, exasperating, fickle, "serpent of the Nile", one was always aware of his gender.
	wellfurlong.co.uk /theatre/globe99.htm (1247 words)

	The Globe Season - Richard II,
		Mark Rylance, whose regime has been in place since the Globe's inception, takes the part of Richard II, a perfect role for his sensitive and delicate interpretative skills.
		Rylance is of course a true star and tends to dwarf those around him.
		Rylance's Richard, the shallow courtier, visits his dying uncle Gaunt (John McEnery) but stands a way off, holding a handkerchief to his face, self interest registering higher than his concern for his dying relative.
	www.curtainup.com /globe-richard.html (682 words)

	The British Theatre Guide: Rylance to Leave Globe
		Mark Rylance as Vincentio in Measure for Measure at the Globe.
		In a personal letter to colleagues and friends he wrote, "Never has an actor had such an opportunity as you entrusted to me when I was asked to help bring your dream of a working Globe Theatre through its birth into its childhood.
		No further comment will be made by Shakespeare’s Globe until the announcement of Mark Rylance’s successor in 2005.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /news/rylanceleaves.htm (276 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Measure for Measure
		But only a great actor can be spectacular in a sketchy role, and Mark Rylance, in "Measure for Measure," proves once again that he's a great actor.
		However, in Rylance's hands, the character is a comic gem, stumbling, mumbling and offering rambling homilies as he realizes he's in over his head and gropes to find solutions.
		Rylance recently ended his 10-year tenure as Globe artistic director.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117928832?categoryid=1265 (800 words)

	JS Online: 'Intimacy' reveals emotions born of desperation
		Former Milwaukeean Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox give shockingly uninhibited performances as ships that pass in the night.
		Rylance is British but grew up in Mequon and Whitefish Bay and attended University School where his parents taught.
		Former Milwaukeean Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox give shockingly uninhibited performances as ships that pass in the night involved in an affair.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/movies/dec01/5094.asp?format=print (429 words)

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