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Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. This episodes includes a 5 minute item showing a rehearsal for King Lear with director Peter Brook. composer Virgil Thomson and Natasha Parry as Cordelia. The...
Examines how directors approach and stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream and some of the problems involved. Includes footage from various productions of the play including a brief extract from Peter Brook’s...
Video recording of Peter Brook’s 1974 production of Timon of Athens with François Marthouret in the title role.
Television documentary celebrating the work of Paul Scofield. Includes footage of Scofield on tour in Romania with the RSC production of King Lear directed by Peter Brook in 1964. Shots of the cast getting...
Educational videotape. What do fairies look like? How can magic be staged meaningfully in modern theatre? The programme presents scenes from several filmed versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that show...
13-part television documentary series on the history of theatre, written and presented by Ronald Harwood. Episode 5, A MUSE OF FIRE, looks at the roots and background to Shakespeare’s theatre. Includes...
Live audio recording of Peter Brook’s production of King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Paul Scofield in the title role.
A live sound recording of Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Alan Howard as Theseus/Oberon and Sara Kestelman as Hippolyta/Titania.
Television anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. Programme on the staging of King Lear around a rehearsal in the National Theatre of David Hare’s production with Anthony Hopkins in the title...
A recording, for French television, of Peter Brook’s production of Measure for Measure for Centre International de Créations Théâtrales with Clémentine Amouroux as Isabella and François Marthouret as...