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First in a series of four programmes, presented by Penny Gore, featuring music written for Shakespeare’s plays. A team of actors joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for specially recorded scenes from Hamlet...
A remake of the Ernst Lubitsch film TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942) with Mel Brooks and Ann Bancroft in the roles originally played by Jack Benny and Carole Lombard.
Video recording, using three cameras, of a performance of King Lear by the Talawa Theatre Company at the Cochrane Theatre, London. Ben Thomas is Lear.
Video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2000 production of Richard II directed by Gerald Freeman with Wallace Acton in the title role. Recorded for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.
Austrian radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted for broadcasting by Kurt Klinger and produced by Hans Krendlesberger. With Karlheinz Hackl as Palamon and Thomas Stroux as Arcite.
Complete performance with Robert Stephens as Richard, Peggy Ashcroft as Queen Margaret, and Glenda Jackson as Lady Anne.
Feature film comedy and a parody of CLEOPATRA (1963). The film spoofs history in general and British attitudes in particular. Noted for it’s gloriously bad puns as in ‘Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got...
Feature film. An early comedy in the CARRY ON cycle featuring Ted Ray as the headmaster of an undisciplined school. Includes an unruly performance of a school play, Romeo and Juliet, with unmelodic...
Video recording of Jeanette Lambermont’s 2000 production of As You Like It for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Lucy Peacock is Rosalind.
Live audio recording of a performance of Much Ado About Nothing directed for the National Theatre in 1965 by Franco Zeffirelli. Robert Stephens is Benedick and Maggie Smith, Beatrice. Ian McKellen plays...
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