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National Theatre recording, on a single, fixed camera, of the production directed by John Caird and designed by Tim Hatley. Simon Russell Beale as Hamlet.
Feature length, low-budget version of Hamlet filmed in Derry, Northern Ireland. The film cuts the text heavily and rearranges scenes while making interpretative use of locations and accents to draw parallels...
Feature film adapted from H.G. Wells’ short novel The Island of Dr Moreau (1896). The hubristic scientist, Dr Moreau, is banished from his home to a remote island where he proclaims himself the absolute...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy arranged and produced for broadcasting by Raymond Raikes starring Joss Ackland and Googie Withers in the lead. The music by Stephen Dodgson is conducted by Rae Jenkins.
US sitcom about a ‘family’ of four extraterrestrials who land on Earth to observe human beings, while pretending (often awkwardly) to be humans. In this episode Tommy asks Dick to direct his high school...
Independent feature film version of Othello with an all-black cast.
Two-hour radio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy adapted for broadcasting by Barbara Burnham and produced by Val Gielgud. With John Gielgud in the title role, Margaretta Scott as Ophelia, Robert Donat as...
A video recording of Shakespeare Globe Theatre’s production of Henry V with an all-male, multi-racial cast of 15. Mark Rylance is Henry.
Television production starring Michael Hordern as Prospero.
An adaptation of Romeo and Juliet radically interpreting the text, while preserving the verse. Set in a futuristic Verona, the film uses shock cuts, speeded-up trick motion, and a rock music score. Leonardo...
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