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Independent feature film. Jimmy (Stanek) is eager to escape his apparent future as a low-level mobster in his Brooklyn neighbourhood. He aspires to be an actor and auditions for a role in a Shakespearean...
Feature film. John Barrymore, in his final film, plays a Shakespearean actor caricaturing himself. His attempts to tutor an aspiring star arouse jealousy. The various references to Shakespeare include a...
Video recording of a production of Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ play ‘Playing Juliet/Casting Shakespeare’ directed by Lisa Rose Middleton. The cast is equally divided between black and white actors and...
Live sound recording of the Renaissance Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet directed by Derek Jacobi with Kenneth Branagh in the title role.
Live sound recording of John Barton’s 1981 production of The Merchant of Venice for the Royal Shakespeare Company with David Suchet as Shylock and Sinead Cusack as Portia.
Independent feature film. Set in New York’s Lower East Side, a reworking of Romeo and Juliet and updating of WEST SIDE STORY using rock music. The interracial love affair between an Italian boy and a...
Live sound recording of the Renaissance Theatre Company’s production of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Judi Dench with Kenneth Branagh as Benedict and Samantha Bond as Beatrice.
Feature film. Musical comedy with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. An aspiring chorus girl finds herself in a jam when a gangster, who is backing the show she is appearing in, is found dead in her...
Video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2012 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Stephen Rayne. David Schramm is Falstaff. Videotaped for the WAPAVA by Geoffrey Moore.
Feature film version of Shakespeare’s play. Kenneth Branagh’s directorial debut which is widely regarded as heralding a ‘renaissance’ in filmed Shakespeare in the 1990s.