Check out the Beatles performing a Shakespearean skit on a 1964 British television program. The audience seemed to be having as much fun as the Fab Four were! Where else can you see John dressed up as a woman, playing Paul's love interest? Hilarious! Don't miss it!
"'Ello, 'ello, 'ello! Eyes can you see, how can it be! What dreadful doe is here. Thy mantle good, all covered in blood! Oh, dainty duck, oh dear."
It's Bowdler with a sense of humor!
I think they were part of the skit, because the whole thing was on TV. They wouldn't have gone to see The Beatles live if they didn't even like them. Plus in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the actors in the beginning are supposed to be terrible, and everyone hates their play, so the audience here is also acting.
Thank you! It's that my mother tongue isn't English and I can't get everything they say... in this skit I understand too little -.-
Well, they are always making mistakes!!! Ahahaah Like "Ok, what's the problem? I don't care"! That's why I Love them =P
It does look that way.. especially when George starts motioning to that thing on the floor, and Paul starts saying different lines. I think I remember an interview with the Beatles about this skit, and George(?) says that they practiced it so much but still made mistakes.
OMG! I love it when John 'accidentally' hit's Paul in the nose, and then the cute awkward face that Paulie makes when John says "my love, my love" LMAO XD
Having performed in 'A Midsummer Night's dream' several times, I'd like to point out that an interesting misconception about the scene is that the Beatles are doing a parody of Shakespeare. Outside of some permissible ad libs, The Beatles are actually doing the scene the way Shakespeare wrote it. Even the guys who are heckling the Fabs during the sequence are supposed to heckle them.
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