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Radio programme exploring how actors come to terms with ageing, and draws parallels with how old age is portrayed on stage and screen. From characters like Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave via...
Videorecording of the one-man play by William Luce starring Christopher Plummer as American acting legend John Barrymore. With his career in tatters, ageing actor John Barrymore rents an old theatre and...
Radio drama by Ronald Frame. An imagined account of a summer day at Verdi’s country retreat. The ageing composer intends a quiet day working on the French translation of his opera Falstaff. Three surprise...
A film shot on location in and around Stratford-upon-Avon; concerns ten Shakespearian sonnets, spoken off-screen, which have a single dramatic theme: a bond between an ageing poet, his mistress and a young...
Video recording of Ben Power’s play which takes Romeo and Juliet as a starting point for a story about two older lovers. Though the words are all Shakespeare’s, the scenes have been shuffled and speeches...
Feature film. Rex Whittington (Heggie) is an ageing and alcoholic Shakespearean actor, depressed after being offered only a spear-carrier role in a movie. When he is arrested his loving niece, Ginger,...
German television crime drama set in London’s theatre world based on the novel by Nino Erne. Just before the premiere of Shakespeare’s Othello, the lead actor Robert Adam is found dead in his changing...
A new interpretation of Shakespeare’s drama by Neil Bartlett that explores the dysfunctional relationship between Antony and Cleopatra as that of an ageing mixed-race couple burning themselves out.
Short film. Adaptation by Hugh Cruttwell of Anton Chekhov’s one-act play Kalchas. A ageing actor wakes up in his dressing room long after the play has ended and walks on to the stage where he meets his...
Radio series in which contemporary writers reflect on the theme of Jaques’s ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech in the form of dramatic monologues. In the sixth episode, John Banville meditates on ‘The Lean...
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