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Radio programme presented by Farquharson Small on the history of the Old Vic Theatre, its two female managers, Emma Cons (acting manager 1898-1912) and Lilian Baylis (manager 1912-37), and producer-director...
Radio portrait of English actor and theatrical manager David Garrick (1717-1779) written by Walter Allen. Garrick played seventeen Shakespearian parts and tried his hand at several adaptations of...
Fiction comedy short. When a staging of Hamlet fails the manager insists on putting on a revised version and persuades a wealthy girl to play Ophelia. In the performance the Ghost does a song and dance...
The radio talk focuses on Shakespeare and the amateur stage and is given by W. Nugent Monk, who was at the time owner-producer-manager of the Maddermarket Theatre, a theatre with an amateur company, in Norwich.
Comedy. The story of a theatrical company and what happens in a staging of Macbeth. One night the actor playing Macbeth, interrupts the performance after he hears a cell phone ringing in the audience. From...
Produced by the BBC’s Training Department and conceived as a comedy, highlights the problems which can beset a badly organised film unit on location. Shows the problems experienced by such a production...
Radio programme. Actor couple J. Martin Harvey and Nina de Silva (Lady Harvey) perform 3 scenes from their repertoire, one of which is the wooing scene from Shakespeare’s Richard III.
Feature film comedy. Set in turn-of-the-century Naples, Nina dreams of becoming a tragedian and instead becomes a cafe singer and starts a popular dance craze based on the can-can. For her audition piece...
Fiction film issued by Kalem in a two-reel instalment. The first is a story about an actress (Joyce) who is in love with an actor (Moore) and includes two stage scenes at least one of which the actress...
Portrait written by Edith Sitwell of would-be-actor and English eccentric Robert ‘Romeo’ Coates, also known as Cock-a-doodle-doo Coates. Son of a West Indian millionaire, Coates arrived in England with...
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