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In 1990, the Mabou Mines theatre group worked to perform an abridged version of King Lear directed by Lee Breuer featuring gender-reversed roles and set in 1950s America. The film follows the director Lee...
Feature film set in 1950s America. An unconventional teacher inspires his pupils, one of whom (Neil Perry) is seen as Puck in a school production a A Midsummer Night’s Dream, parts of which are shown...
A production of The Taming of the Shrew, with a heavily cut text, set in the 1950s.
A video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 1998 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Daniel Fish and set in a Catskills holiday resort in the 1950s. David Sabin is Falstaff.
Podcast. Austin Tichenor talks to Henry Godinez about his new production of Shakespeare’s play for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, set in 1950s Cuba.
Video recording of Lee Breuer’s production of King Lear set in the American South in the 1950s, with the gender roles of the major characters reversed: Lear is a woman with three sons. Videotaped for TOFT...
A video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2001 production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Douglas C. Wager and videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor. Paul Whitthorne is Proteus...
Bernard Kops radio play distills elements freely adapted from Shakespeare’s tragedy into ‘A Sad Comedy with some Songs’ (subtitle). Kop’s one-act play is set in the 1950s lower-middle-class Jewish...
Steven Spielberg’s period film adaptation, set in the 1950s, of the stage musical by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins that was inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and...
The life of Shakespeare including scenes of his birthplace, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and landmarks of Elizabethan London. Narrated by John Snagge.
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