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Possibly earliest sound recording of the opening lines of Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy, spoken by a man’s voice on a wax cylinder disc. The recording is an example of experiments...
Graduate documentary. Young African-Americans who’ve dropped out of high school try to get their lives back on track with an unusual project for their impoverished Oakland, CA neighbourhood. After spending...
Richard Burton’s performance as Hamlet, directed for stage by John Gielgud, and recorded at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre, New York, on 30 June and 1 July 1964, during a regularly scheduled performance of the...
Audio recording. Dharmesh Patel, the first British-Asian Hamlet talks to Suman Bhuchar about making his Shakespearean debut in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 70-minute young people’s version of the play...
Heather Neill continues her interview with the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s artistic director, Mark Rylance. Rylance talks about the three original pronunciation productions to be staged at the Globe....
Recording of a student production of Romeo and Juliet by the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance. It is set in 2020 Verona during the Coronavirus pandemic, with the chorus (performed...
As celebrations begin to mark Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, playwright Mark Ravenhill challenges the adulation of the playwright and asks: Is Shakespeare’s genius beyond question? Exploring the...
The fourteenth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...
Audio recording. Heather Neill talks to Headlong artistic director Rupert Goold about his 2010 production of Romeo and Juliet for the Royal Shakespeare Company, starring Sam Troughton and Mariah Gale, which...
Documentary. Joely Richardson looks at Shakespeare’s women examining As You Like It and Twelfth Night covering issues such as cross dressing, twins, disguise, the nature of comedy and gender. The...
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