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News item (mute). Guests attending a party for the first night of Love’s Labour Lost at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford on 3rd July 1956. The play was directed by Peter Hall, his first...
Newsfilm. "A new season started at the Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, presenting a sequence of six of Shakespeare’s plays. People queued for over 30 hours for gallery seats for the opening...
Film of the rebuilding of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, comprising: views of exterior of theatre, entrance hall and box office, 1932 ceremony of laying foundation stone, 2 July 1929 work in progress...
Radio drama. The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company’s production of Cymbeline directed for stage by Peter Hall and adapted and produced for radio by Victor Menzies. Peggy Ashcroft is Imogen and Richard...
Radio recording of Peter Hall’s stage production of the play at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Adapted and produced for broadcasting by Peter Dews, starring Dorothy Tutin as...
A version made for American television, but not transmitted, of Peter Hall’s 1959 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Charles Laughton as Bottom and Vanessa Redgrave as Helena.
A televised recording (although never transmitted) for NBC of Peter Hall’s 1959 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The production is prefaced by a short Prologue...
Radio programme. Shakespeare Birthday speeches are relayed from The Conference Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon. Ernest Pollock Lord Hanworth, Master of the Rolls since 1923, proposes ‘The Immortal Memory’...
Live sound recording of Coriolanus directed by Peter Hall for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre with Laurence Olivier in the title role. Recorded by Hal Rogers.
Last episode in a three-part radio series exploring the story of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. In the final programme, presenter James Naughtie focuses on the role of the theatre...
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