I love David Suchet and this is completely brilliant!

David Suchet has a rather erotic voice...I love it ...Quite something hear him reciting Shakespeare..... And I love his Poirot acting.....Everything he manages rather perfect...

A masterclass in expressing the sonnets. Brilliant!

What a treat. I saw DS in the RSC production of Troilus & Cressida and its stayed in the memory. TN - an absolute genius in interpreting Shakespeare. Thanks for posting such a gift for us.

suchet is like, wow...i don't understand a word of shakespeare, until someone like him reads it...inflection is everything

what a treasure! Thank you for sharing it with us :o)

David Suchet has the patience of a saint.

It's so weird to see Suchet in something other than a Savile Row suit and with a mustache. He played a wonderful Poirot.

Love David Suchet!

I wish they'd do something similar to this again. May be with Rupert Goold and a few of our current prominent Shakespearean actors (Adiran Lester; Kenneth Branagh; David Tennant; Mariah Gale; Maggie Smith, etc). There's an old video of Peter O'Toole, Orson Welles at a roundtable discussing Shakespeare, it's so insightful. Would love to see that done again as well.

Tone of voice and meaning, facial expressions, body language and analysis of characters...

We watched this in my Shakespeare Acting Class. This is fucking brilliant.

Even this early on, David is a master

This is fascinating. Both the acting and directing were sublime.

Brilliant, very insightful.

I just love this!

Thank you so much!

Simply amazing

evoke much ? My goodness! love it 😍

Yes, many thanks! David Suchet is now playing "The Last Confession" at the Royal Alex in Toronto, Ontario and I'm going to try to get there for it.

WOW, WOW, WOW. I love this!

Soo many details and subtleties to pay attention to. I think I d SIMPLY forget my lines.. ;)

THANK YOU!

It's funny because David Suchet DOES play a university lecturer who's a bit suss in 1992, in 'Oleanna' by David Mamet. And looks like he'd do a good job.

I loved everything except the pauses in the early versions. Glad most of them were gone by the end. But I wouldn’t expect less. This sonnet seems like one of the more obvious to deliver, but no less satisfying.

".. That was great David.. but now I want you to imagine that you're an ice-cream seller who has lost all passion for his cornets.. Then we'll move on to Hamlet on roller-skates.."

Amazing!!!

Beautiful

I wish I WAS a university professor!

@rodwendilain Tout à fait d'accord avec vous.Moi aussi j'ADORE David Suchet

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It's difficult to listen to such things now without immediately hearing Stephen Fry's and Hugh Laurie's parodies of them in "A Bit of Fry and Laurie"..... mark it for me, lovelet....mark it 😂

Double entente c'est magnifique

Liked him as Poirot

very fond of that ...

Hard to believe that’s Poirot. What an actor.

@John Carpenter That's just not true. Shakespeare's plays aren't card houses that topple down from the slightest mistake. Certainly, the best performances are true to the pentameter, but minor errors in an actor's speech will never bring the whole thing crumbling into ruin.

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Are there more videos like this?

😊 вкуснятина!!!!!!!

Is that Patrick Stewart sitting in a chair beyond where the two are speaking together between about <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="120">2:00</a> - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="180">3:00</a>?

So strange to see DS so young

The last reading feels better BUT I don't think the ending couplet would be written as measured, civilized resignation, acceptance, but furious/angry, spiting? frustration. The impossible question of whether S-speare wrote from his personal experience just lies out in the void....lol. It feels real but the best art always does.

who else watching in Shakespeare RN

1979. Ten Years before the man would be...King? Okay, Poirot.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="92">1:32</a> she is smitten

This is such crap. A perfect example of the way in which 'directors' try to make themselves important, even essential to the process of acting. It's ridiculous. In the first instance, Suchet gives a beautiful, natural, unmediated reading of the text. It rings with clarity, with truth. It comes from his instinct, effectively from his heart, and from many years of experience with 'verse'. He knows how to let the text speak for itself, simply by speaking it. In this way, the text 'reveals' itself to him as he speaks it. And what he says is unique, for one time only, never fixed, eternally alive. And then, Trev gets all clever, imposing his narrative speculations on the spontaneous reading of the text, and the result is a confused actor, congested, blocked, and playing externally, 'out there', rather than intimately, 'in here'. The verse will reach across the gap and find the audience. You don't need a superimposed dramatic context.The actor should simply 'allow' the verse to do the work. Worst of all, there is a shameless pretence that this process somehow 'releases ' the text, 'frees' the actor. But it's bollox. You don't free an actor by imposing upon him from outside. Too much 'clever Trevor'.

EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION!

David Suchet ❤️ I wonder if he is part French.

Therefore I lie (in bed) with her / and she with me... [an older man and young wife] and in our faults, our lies, (false) we flattered be...

Huh, older Oxford Don as the voice of the Sonnets!? I don't get that at all.... Remember S-speare was the ONLY Tudor literary light that DIDN"T go to university.

Oh for fuck's sake it was better the first time round !!

@adamjenson4500 Your comparision is flawed- You chose the hardest musical profession I can play guitar. I would be able to replace most guitarist in most rock bands. I wouldn't be able to replace Vai or Satriani etc I can talk. I would be able to replace Keanu Reeves. I wouldn't be able to replace Jacobi or Sher etc A highly trained and skilled actor is the same as a highly trained and skilled musician.

Man what vocal richness and depth! I didn't know. I hear the sonnets very differently from the slow, measured, stentorian readings. I hear them as very fast, edgy, winching. As would be a frustrated, neurotic, manipulative young man....

Wow! What a waste Poirot was for David Suchet?

I'm not really convinced by Trevor Nunn's direction. It all struck me as tedious and over analyzed and striving to insert a supposed double meaning where none truly existed. The net result was a bit arch and coy for my taste. So much better if he had just told David Suchet to give it a bit more oomph, let the actor act.

Where the hell are all the Shakespeare productions starring David Suchet?? Why is that giant talent wasting himself on almost nothing by Hercule Poirot??? It's so tragic.