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Radio version of Shakespeare’s history play produced by Martin Jenkins in stereo, with Leo McKern as Falstaff and Peter Jeffrey as King Henry. The music is specially composed by David Cain and played by...
Documentary. Twenty male inmates of the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in La Grange, Kentucky form an acting troupe and perform The Tempest. The film follows the inmates through a 40-week rehearsal...
Television production of Hamlet, heavily abridged. Directed by Peter Brook with Paul Scofield as Hamlet. The Phoenix Theatre, London stage production went out live from a studio; it was thought that such a...
Radio version of the play adapted by Cynthia Pughe and produced by Howard Rose. With David King-Wood as Oberon and Peggy Ashcrofy as Titania, Leslie French is Puck.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Jonathan Miller with Brian Cox as Petruchio and Fiona Shaw as...
Second instalment of a five-part schools programme series that attempts to makes Shakespeare accessible to children by having well-known actors comment on and perform key scenes from Shakespeare’s plays...
Concluding episode in a three-part docuseries on the life and work of William Shakespeare, combining interviews with drama vignettes. 3. Shakespeare’s life and legacy is threatened when the Gunpowder Plot...
Trevor Nunn discusses The Tempest and considers how much of Shakespeare’s last play is autobiographical. Excerpts: THE TEMPEST (1908). d. Percy Stow FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) d. Fred Wilcox THE TEMPEST...
Schools broadcast based on the two parts of Henry IV, which was presented as a mini-series in seven parts following the fortunes of Falstaff. With music specially composed by Kenneth Leighton, starring Roger...
Second in a three-part docuseries on the life and work of William Shakespeare, combining interviews with drama vignettes. 2. A 30-year-old Shakespeare is at the top of his game: he’s got a job at...