"Shakespeare: The Animated Tales"
Twelfth Night (1992)

Director:

Mariya Muat

Writers:

Leon Garfield (screenplay) and
William Shakespeare (play)

TV Series:

"Shakespeare: The Animated Tales" (1992)

Original Air Date:

14 December 1992 (Season 1, Episode 6)

Genre:

Animation

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Historical | Remake | Shakespeare's Twelfth Night | Shakespeare | William Shakespeare

Cast

Rosemary Leach	...	Narrator (voice)
Fiona Shaw	...	Viola (voice)
Roger Allam	...	Duke Orsino (voice)
Suzanne Burden	...	Olivia (voice)
Gerald James	...	Malvolio (voice)
William Rushton	...	Toby Belch (voice)
Stephen Tompkinson	...	Sir Andrew (voice)
Alice Arnold	...	Maria (voice)
Stefan Bednarczyk	...	Feste (voice)
Hugh Grant	...	Sebastian (voice)

Series Cast

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Joss Ackland	...	Julius Caesar (voice)
David Acton	...	Prince Malcolm (voice)
Alun Armstrong	...	Caliban (voice)
John Baddeley	...	Lennox (voice)
Phillip Bond	...	Othello Narrator / Sir James Tyrell (voice)
Patrick Brennan	...	Banquo / Henry of Richmond / 2nd Murderer (voice)
Jim Carter	...	Mark Anthony (voice)
Brendan Charleson	...	Tybalt / 1st Murderer / Messenger (voice)
Brian Cox	...	Macbeth, Thane of Glamis (voice)
Jonathan Cullen	...	Benvolio Montague (voice)
Terry Dauncey	...	Brabantio (voice)
Nicholas Farrell	...	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (voice)
Philip Franks	...	Lt. Michael Cassio (voice)
Garard Green	...	Friar Lawrence (voice)
James Greene	...	(voice)
James Grout	...	Sir William Catesby / Bishop of Ely (voice)
Peter Guinness	...	Antonio (voice)
Greg Hicks	...	Mercutio (voice)
Bernard Hill	...	Nick Bottom (voice)
Spike Hood	...	Prince Edward of Wales (voice)
Martin Jarvis	...	(voice)
Ric Jerrom	...	(voice)
Charles Kay	...	Capulet (voice)
Michael Kitchen	...	Hamlet Narrator / Polixenes (voice)
Anton Lesser	...	Leontes (voice)
Simon Ludders	...	Roderigo (voice)
Michael Maloney	...	George, Duke of Clarence / Duke of Norfolk (voice)
Daniel Massey	...	Oberon, King of the Night (voice)
Alec McCowen	...	Macbeth Narrator / Richard III Narrator (voice)
Colin McFarlane	...	Othello, Moor of Venice (voice)
Gerard McSorley	...	Iago, Othello's Ancient (voice)
Clive Merrison	...	Macduff (voice)
John Moffatt	...	(voice)
Hywel Nelson	...	Richard, Duke of York (voice)
Andrew Olcott	...	Laertes (voice)
Laurence Payne	...	King Duncan of Scotland (voice)
Richard Pearce	...	Prince Donalbain (voice)
Sion Probert	...	(voice)
Hugh Quarshie	...	Caius Cassius (voice)
Linus Roache	...	Romeo Montague (voice)
Ivor Roberts	...	Lodovico (voice)
Antony Sher	...	Leontes / Richard III (voice)
John Shrapnel	...	Claudius / Hamlet's Father (voice)
Jonathan Tafler	...	(voice)
Dorien Thomas	...	Horatio (voice)
Stephen Thorne	...	Stephano / Lord William Hastings / Cardinal (voice)
John Warner	...	Polonius (voice)
Timothy West	...	(voice)
Tom Wilkinson	...	Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham (voice)

Country:

Russia | UK

Company:

Soyuzmultfilm

Movie Connections:

Version of Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996)

A perfect adaptation of Shakespeare's most perfect play.

Quite simply one of the best ever Shakespearean adaptations, because it achieves the near-impossible balance of comedy and melancholy that makes 'Twelfth Night' the favourite Shakespeare play of the discerning. More than either, 'Twelth night' makes tangible a feeling of longing, the exquisitely fine puppetry, the richly detailed mise-en-scene, the haunting Elizabethan pastiche score, all frame characters alone and desiring unrequited. this courtly anguish is satisfyingly countered by the cruel, physical humour of Toby and Aguecheeks' world, but even here, Malvolio's mirroring humiliation returns us to sadness.