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The programme, presented by Joe Barber, considers the importance of magical experience in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It looks at a gnostic mass performed by a group in New York City and compares the role...
BBC radio series. Six commissioned lectures on Shakespeare and his meaning in the modern world. In episode 5 writer and cultural historian Marina Warner considers Shakespeare’s use of the supernatural and...
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...
Radio programme. Themed on the subject of magic in its many shades, this episode’s ‘Word and Music’ starts with Shakespeare, the theme of the year’s Proms season. Miriam Margoyles and Nicholas...
Television arts series. Peter Brook and his Experimental Theatre Company prepare for a production of The Tempest and are seen in acting exercises and performance. Brook believes that we no longer know what...
Anthology arts series. Examines why The Tempest, still holds such fascination for modern audiences. Melvyn Bragg investigates the events surrounding the writing of the play, including contemporary interest...
Video recording of the Mokwha Repertory Company’s 2011 production of The Tempest directed by Oh Tae-suk. The play is transported to 5th century Korea. King Zilzi immersed in his study of Taoist magic,...
Ninth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...
Experimental video by Angela Zumpe. ‘On a lonesome island at an indeterminate time, Prospero, the rightful ruler of Milan and master of this island, creates a storm with his magic power that throws the...
Radio variety series. Extracts from Julius Caesar performed by Orson Welles, Martin Gabel and others.
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