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Feature film version of the play. ‘Building on Olivier’s extraordinary stage creation, the film asks less what the cinema can do for the theatre (as with HENRY V and HAMLET) than what the theatre can...
Fiction short. Filmed in in March and April, 1967, as an episode for CAPRICCIO ALL’ ITALIANA. Pasolini transforms Shakespeare’s Othello into a laconic Italian puppet-show comedy with live marionettes...
Rupert Goold, director of the Headlong Theatre company, talks to Heather Neill about his acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre 2007 production of Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood. Goold...
Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speaks about the cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays which he has directed. He also speaks of the advantages of the thrust stage and how...
What makes this ‘gloriously watchable, now as then, is Oliver’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, bruttish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly...
Feature film. William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a tavern in Southwark. Shakespeare points out people who remind him of scenes from his plays. A wistful woman reminds him of Juliet,...
A compilation of seven early silent versions of Shakespeare plays, created from nitrate prints held in the BFI National Archive. They include examples of hand-stencilled and tinted prints, and, though...
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