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Film adaptation of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Jane Smiley, which is loosely based on King Lear but with a feminist slant. Larry (Robards) decides to give his daughters joint ownership of his...
A radio broadcast for CBC. Directed for stage by John Juliani and adapted by Michael Cook, with John Colicos as Lear.
Sitcom. Comedy series set in the Middle Ages featuring the exploits of self-serving Blackadder (Atkinson). Reversing history’s perceptions Richard is a kindly monarch and Henry Tudor a self-serving...
Children’s programme aimed at the under 5s. Swashbuckle’s Cook and Line help William Shakespeare put together a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Filmed at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool.
Independent short. With a modern take on relationship roles, equality of power and decision-making, the film casts a different light onto the common expectations of the play without changing any textual...
Television production of the play live from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Directed for stage by John Dove and for television by Janet Fraser Cook. Presented by Andrew Marr and with comment from historian...
A new production of Macbeth live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the 1865 revised version directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Anthony Michaels-Moore and Maria Guleghina sing the leading roles. The Royal...
A sketch from the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, written and performed by Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller, and first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1960. The sketch...
Video recording of Timon of Athens directed by Julian López-Morillas with James Carpenter in the title role.
Television-movie version of Othello directed and adapted by Zaib Shaikh with Carlo Rota in the title role.
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