VIDEO: Sir Patrick Stewart and Sebastian Arcelus Read Shakespeare's Sonnets on Twitter
By: Stephi Wild Mar. 24, 2020
Sir Patrick Stewart is continuing his #ASonnetADay series on Twitter with Sonnet 2. Watch the latest installation below!
Sonnet 2. This is one of my favorites. #ASonnetADay pic.twitter.com/aQBzrsETKv
- Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) March 23, 2020
Watch Stewart's first two videos, of Sonnet 16 and Sonnet 1, here.
Sebastian Arcelus has also taken up reading Shakespeare on Twitter. Watch his rendition of Sonnet 105 below!
When @_MichaelGaston asks you to read a sonnet, you #readasonnet. #105 pic.twitter.com/tHH8nLMeiX
- Sebastian Arcelus (@SebArcelus) March 24, 2020
Patrick Stewart is a three-time Olivier Award winner and a Tony Award nominee for his distinguished stage work, and has received multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award nominations for his work across television and film.
For his celebrated stage work, Stewart won his first of three Olivier Awards for his performance in Antony and Cleopatra in 1979, which also marked the start of his unprecedented run with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). He went on to appear in over sixty RSC productions, including his Olivier-winning turn as 'Claudius' in Hamlet.
Stewart's other Broadway and West End appearances include Macbeth (Tony nomination); repertory productions of Pinter's No Man's Land and Beckett's Waiting for Godot opposite Ian McKellen; The Caretaker; A Life in the Theatre; The Master Builder; THE RIDE Down Mt. Morgan; The Merchant of Venice; Twelfth Night; and The Tempest. He won an Olivier, Drama Desk and What's OnStage Award for his acclaimed and oft-performed adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which Stewart created as a solo show and in which he portrays over 40 characters.
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