Twelfth Night review – Mathew Horne oozes arrogance as a brilliantly buttoned-up Malvolio
Crucible, Sheffield The yellow stockings are as funny as ever – yet a haunting, folky live score casts a dream-like uncertainty over Shakespeare’s tangled romance You can picture Mathew Horne ’s Malvolio as a guest on an early 1970s BBC Two arts show.
With his buttoned-up collar, tight black suit and supercilious delivery, he oozes self-satisfaction.
Trusting in his superior taste, he has the pose to prove it: stiff, studied and haughty.
His fall from grace, tricked into dressing up as a yellow-stockinged morris dancer, is as funny as it ever is in Shakespeare’s comedy.
It is the comeuppance of the arriviste.
Brought down to size, he is no less indignant for it.
In a smart, unyielding performance, he goes from pompous to bruised – and ever unrepentant.
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