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Podcast. Tony Farina joins host Dan to discuss 10 films based, more or less, on a play by Shakespeare. The films discussed include: FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), SHE’S THE MAN (2006), ROSENCRANTZ AND...
Feature film. French/Spanish version of The Taming of the Shrew set in 16th-century Gandia.
Television comedy show hosted by Arthur Askey. This edition includes a running gag where Askey wants to prove himself a serious actor and quotes the ‘quality of mercy’ speech from The Merchant of Venice...
Verdi’s Falstaff. The Orchestra and Chorus of Radiotelevisione Italiana Milano are conducted by Tullio Serafin. Guiseppe Taddei as Falstaff in the production staged by Herbert Graf.
Radio broadcast. Austrian-born American dance historian Walter Sorell interviews Maurice Evans on his opinions about adapting Shakespeare for television. They talk about the recent renaissance of Shakespeare...
Scenes from Richard III adapted for radio by William Dawkins from Allen Fletcher’s 1956 stage production for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Before the broadcast begins Jennings Pierce interviews director...
US variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. This episode includes includes an extract (5 min 45 secs) in which Orson Welles (in costume and make-up) performs Lear’s speech from IV, vii (`You do me wrong to take...
Featuring the music of Nigel Hess and speeches heard from Christopher Luscombe’s 2014 Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Love’s Labour’s Lost (29 minutes) and Love’s Labour’s Won (aka Much...
Brecht wrote the scenes to train actors in his own method for performing classical drama. The scenes were intended to be strenuously rehearsed, but then omitted when the play was presented. The idea was to...
A musical version of the play adapted by Lionel Harris and Robert MacNab. The production originally ran at the Arts Theatre Club, London in a version with added music by Julian Slade. Dennis Ringrowe is the...
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