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Television Russian language learning series. This lesson includes footage from Innokenti Smoktunovsky in Kozintsev’s GAMLET (1964) and teaches the student how to say ‘to be or not to be’ in Russian.
Topical magazine show presented by Eamonn Andrews. Shows Marianne Faithfull rehearsing her role as Ophelia with Nicol Williamson as Hamlet. The television programme was recorded on stage at the Roundhouse.
BBC television newsreel. King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid of Denmark see Michael Redgrave in the Old Vic production of Hamlet staged at Elsinore.
A television production of Act IV of The Tempest - the masque scene. Using the devices and effects of television, it aims to represent the sense of magic perhaps perceived by earlier audiences.
Television documentary. A record of the Royal Shakespeare Touring Company’s productions in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Eight-part television series, the aim of which was to explore ‘how far television can be used to allow the poem itself to work undisturbedly on the reader-listener’. In episode 7, Professor I.A. Richards...
Ballet based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream choreographed by Ann Brodie and Adolfina Suarez-More and performed by the Columbia City Ballet.
Television arts series. Theatre critic and writer Margaret Croyden interviews theatre director Peter Brook in 1973 just after his return from Africa with his Centre of Theatre Research group of actors. Brook...
Documentary about the preparations for broadcasting Hamlet on television. Shows members of the production team working, including costume designers and actors in rehearsal.
Arts documentary series. The programme reports on the British opening of the American pop musical based on Othello. With P.J. Proby and Jack Good.