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Feature film. A tragicomedy about an actor and his dying wife. Maurice Kurz (Freiss) is a forty-something jobbing actor who has never had a big career break. One day a world-renowned director Grichenberg...
Radio arts show in which special guest actor and director Barrie Rutter discusses how he transformed the British stand-up comedian Lenny Henry into the tragic Moor for his staging of the play at the West...
Comedy sketch show. The episode includes a sketch in which would-be child actor Steve (Walliams) and his ambitious mother Sandra (Lucas) infiltrate the offices of the Royal Shakespeare Company and demand of...
Comedy short. An exhausted Shakespearean actor, on holiday in an isolated ranch in Arizona, is forced to put on an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet awakens in her tomb and sings ‘O Bury Me...
Radio play. Actor Robert Reynolds, known as Pickleherring, reminisces about his life as a boy actor in Shakespeare’s company, in Jonathan Broadbent’s adaptation of Robert Nye’s novel.
Documentary about Auckland University’s Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream presented by an actor in Shakespearean costume. Director Christian Penny talks about her wish to make the...
BBC Radio 3 arts series. In this edition Philip Dodd talks to director Richard Linklater about his new film ME AND ORSON WELLES (2008), which explores the life of the great filmmaker, writer and actor when...
Arts news and reviews radio programme with Kirsty Lang. Includes an interview with director Richard Linklater, whose new film stars Zac Efron as a young actor cast by Orson Welles in what was to be his...
Feature film. Excessively violent, melodramatic, fanciful and overlong retelling of the Wyatt Earp legend. Includes an early scene in which a young actor in a travelling stage show, playing to a rowdy saloon...
A documentary about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in...
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