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Performance tape for SHAKESPEARE - BREATHING LIFE INTO TEXT. Shows two different versions of key scenes from Hamlet as directed by David Ritchie. The scenes performed are Act III i and Act III iv. In both...
Looks at how different interpretations of Shakespeare’s texts bring different meanings to scenes. Theatre director David Ritchie discusses his method for bringing Shakespeare to life on the stage, and how...
Examines the challenges in dealing with Shakespeare’s plays from a directing point of view. Taking scenes from Hamlet, stage director David Ritchie and film director Arthur Tanaka, discuss ways of...
Comedian Tony Hancock performing in sketches at the Royal Festival Hall, London. In one sketch (c. 5mins) Hancock appears as Lear with Joe Ritchie as the Fool, both in cod Elizabethan costume (mid-way...
Mark Rylance discovers the astonishing appeal of Shakespeare for very young children in a programme featuring their poems, letters and thoughts as well as performance extracts.
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Philip Dodd talks to John Barton and Professor Michael Dobson about the staging of Shakespeare’s history plays throughout history. The impetus to the debate is the production of...
Performance tape for SHAKESPEARE - BREATHING LIFE INTO TEXT. Demonstrates the different disciplines of theatre directing and film directing. Shows two different directors in two different media working with...
Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson, including a report from the opening night production of Michael Grandage’s 2010 King Lear at the Donmar Warehouse in London, with Derek Jacobi in the...
Documentary film recalling the first Elizabethan age through surviving architecture, art, furniture, music and literature. The music, by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is played by the London Sinfonia and sung by...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the femme fatale, an idea exemplified (among others) in the figure of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra. The programme starts with...
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