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Educational film. A team of four actors/teachers run one-day courses at the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) custom-built theatre, the Cockpit, for children studying O level English literature. The...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art’s production of Richard III. This was a drama schools project in collaboration with the RSC in which their...
A non-textual approach to King Lear using collaborative arts techniques with a mixed-ability GCSE group. Shows five scenes using sound, music, art, poetry and dance, intercut with reflections on this way of...
Leslie Hurry produced the stage designs for some 60 plays, operas and ballets between 1942 and his death in 1978. His first commission was Robert Helpmann’s ballet Hamlet and as a designer for the Royal...
Sixteen lectures by Peter Saccio, Leon D. Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies at Dartmouth College, Princeton. The course titles are: ‘Shakespeare’s Wavelengths’;`The Multiple Actions of A...
Slide set. Between 1906 and his death in 1931, Charles Ricketts was the foremost practising designer of his generation in England working with Shaw, Granville Barker, Yeats and Sybil Thorndike. The slides...
Feature film. A Japanese version of King Lear, directed by Akira Kurosawa, transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan. An old man, now a warlord, cedes his kingdom to his eldest son and starts a power struggle...
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...
Feature film version of the play. A naturalistic and literal reading with few interpretative touches. Gibson’s Hamlet is a man of action and with the text heavily cut (over 80%) he dominates the majority...
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