Tim introduces myShakespeare – Get amongst it!
Today, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) have launched a new social networking platform, myShakespeare, for the London 2012 Festival, to mark the start of the World Shakespeare Festival (WSF), the biggest ever celebration of Shakespeare.
myShakespeare, which is supported by BP, is free to access and users can create their own unique searches, based on a particular moment in time, and share their personal data visualisations through Facebook and Twitter.
Tim says: “Saying Shakespeare was a good writer is like saying space is big… The Royal Shakespeare Company produced this festival to celebrate the incredibly diverse ways in which Will’s work still lives, and – most importantly – to encourage you guys to get in amongst it.”
Michael Boyd, RSC Artistic Director, says: “We hope that people will join [the] conversation, either by blogging or through Facebook and Twitter, and make myShakespeare their Shakespeare.”
Tim is the first to join the conversation, introducing the project in the video below in his own very special way. So whether Tim is the sun to you or you compare him to a summer’s day (he makes you sneeze?); whether you love to see him play the Fool or even if, for you, it is all about his Bottom… take a look at what he has to say about myShakespeare especially if you think the soul of the man is in his clothes…
Feel free to comment below on how you might “get in amongst it” and whether you find the end of the video a comedy or a tragedy…
Alas…
Really enjoyable piece. Thanks.
P.S. Loving the hair! x
Tim rocks. Every way.
TIM YOUR HAAAIIIIR! YOU HAVEN’T BACKCOMBED IT!!! YOU MAY HAVE EVEN BRUSHED IT!!!!! AAAAH!!! Still, looks hot ;) Oh, and I’m thinking you should wear those tights to one of your shows ;) xx
Shakespeare stuff is great….
but Tim in a codpiece…AWESOME!
The video is fabulous and the Bard would have loved it! Congratulations RSC – this is a great way to draw in the troops. Oh and Tim, please never change – no matter how you are presented (wild hair, straight hair, curly hair etc) your handsome, kind, intelligent face just mesmerises.
40 seconds in. Cracks me up everytime. Marry me Tim?
Loving the video Tim!
And you are still Rock n Roll in tights!
Great video Tim! Love it xx
Good little video. Made me giggle. And I do love Shakespeare, obviously, it’s hard to not appreciate him. Buutt, what’s happened to Tim’s hair? It’s so long and straight! I miss his wild hair!
Love it – Tim’s bringing the codpiece back into casual day wear!
Fantastic. And you look fabulous in tights! And I love normal you. You look great with makeup and hair or without, not without hair but you know what I mean!
Bad hair day Tim?
Just when I wondered if there was another reason to adore you. I LOVE Shakespeare almost as much as you.
Getting dressed in Elizabethan times – “darling, have you seen my codpiece?” “it’s in the wash”. Foul play? Nice vid Timmy…
His left leg was rotated internally.
Brill video – love the tights xx
The end……certainly a comedy!
Lol you always brighten up my day. Xx
I want Tim Minchin in rep at The RSC. I have said it for many years now. Matilda was a fabulous compromise – may there be more of those – but I want him in Shakespeare. Tim is the closest thing to Shakespeare I can find in this modern world. Sure he might swear more than Will, but fuck, he has the best linguistic dexterity I’ve heard since I last was at the RSC. Watching Shakespeare.
Summer in Stratford is great. The kids will love it. There’s the butterfly farm and a living farm at Mary Arden’s House.
Tim’s feeling awkward. I don’t like awkward Timmy.
he looks weird without makeup
I don’t know… Wasn’t Shakespeare pretty much just the Jerry Springer’s Real Wives of Elizabethan Shore?
I’m not convinced…
Will is able to express what most we feel but are mostly unable to put into words. certainly not cool words. I feel that way about Tim’s STORM.
Will is great because he expresses so well what we humans feel but are mostly unable to put into words. I feel that way about Tim’s STORM.
Best description of Romeo & Juliet ever.
“all my photo shoots in tights..”
Great video!
looking good in tights there tim old boy
Nice leggings Tim , Feel a new costume coming on ;)