Twelfth Night Act 2 Scene 4 | Text Detectives Key Scene | Royal Shakespeare Company

Exploring Viola and Orsino's second scene together in Act 2 Scene 4 of Twelfth Night, with Dinita Gohil and Nicholas Bishop who played Viola and Orsino in the 2017 production and Director Christopher Luscombe.

[@gavinrichardson6758]

Thank you for these segments. I'm teaching the play and these are helpful. I would have liked to have heard the actors discuss sharing a kiss in this scene. In other productions (e.g., Trevor Nunn's), Cesario and Orsino almost cross this line but do not. What is gained or lost by the kiss? Is that "giving the game away"? Is it prompting Orsino to re-evaluate his sexual orientation (what Emma Smith terms "gay panic")? I wish I could have seen this production. The clips I've seen are pretty great.

[@BNidoking]

there is a recording of the performance! it is really good!

[@pd6871]

@@BNidoking Where?

[@melimistaken]

where @@BNidoking

[@hannahjsatterlee]

But they kiss in the actual production. Didn’t that take away the danger and the stakes?

[@abdulrahmanmakinde2174]

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