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Feature film. An adaptation of A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Yuriko (Shibamoto) is a Tokyo office worker who decides to give up big city life and return home to Yokatomi Island in Okinawa to avoid her...
Henry Purcell’s ‘semi-opera’ is broadcast as part of a music anthology series about the composer. Anthony Lewis conducts The Boyd Neel Orchestra and the BBC Singers.
Six-part series, aimed at 15-18 year olds, about imagery in English literature presented by Professor W.M. Merchant. Episode four presumably deals with The Tempest. No further details know. (2/2008).
Radio broadcast of Robert Browning’s poetic take on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in which Caliban reflects on life, religion and human nature. The poem is read by Cecil Trouncer.
Fiction short. A modernisation very loosely based on Shakespeare’s play. The hero is shang-haid, thrown overboard in a storm, finds refuge on an island and falls in love with the lighthouse keeper’s...
Film adaptation of As You Like It.
Scenes from Shakespeare’s play adapted and produced for broadcasting by Barbara Burnham. With Leon Quartermaine as Prospero, Alec Guinness as Ferdinand and Jill Furse as Miranda. Music arranged and played...
Feature film. Contemporary re-imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in the Caribbean on the island of Barbados under a full moon during the Crop Over festival. Chaos ensues when Puck the Butler and...
Radio version of the Davenant/Dryden/Shadwell adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest for which Henry Purcell wrote the music in 1695. With Robert Harris as Prospero. Constant Lambert conducts the Covent...
Independent short. Stephen Linton is a classically trained stage actor who has made the transition to Hollywood stardom. His fame has made him plenty of money but his poor choice of roles has brought him...
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