"Daylight and champaign discovers not more: this is open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintance, I will be point-devise the very man. I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered; and in this she manifests herself to my love, and with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits of her liking. I thank my stars I am happy. I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting on. Jove and my stars be praised!"
Malvolio -- played by the inestimable Stephen Fry -- convincing himself that Olivia loves him, while Sir Toby Belch (Colin Hurley), Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Angus Wright), and Fabian (Jethro Skinner) eavesdrop, in the recent production at the Belasco Theatre on West 44th Street in New York, originally performed at the Globe in 2012..
I enjoy the annual picture. That must have been a wonderful production.
Posted by: marylou | January 06, 2014 at 06:07 AM