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An avant-garde, post-modernist film made at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offering ‘a visual exploration of epistemological puzzles in Hamlet’.
Animation. A meditation on A Midsummer Night’s Dream blending pastels, pencil, water colour, and cels to evoke the clown’s bewildering experiences. Set to the Scherzo from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer...
German television version of Hamlet directed for a festive performance of the play by University of Mainz, directed by Karl-Heinz Stroux. Role names not known (9/2007).
Medieval illuminations presented to illustrate attitudes to the fool in medieval Britain and his role in society. The discussion includes the character’s appearance in morality plays and in Shakespeare.
Chat show hosted by Russell Harty. Includes an interview with Calvin Hoffman who claims that Shakespeare’s works were written by Christopher Marlowe. He believes that a box in the vault of Thomas...
Television version of Measure for Measure relayed from the Residentheater, Munich and directed for the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel by Rudolf Heinrich. Role names not found (9/2007).
A six-part radio series in which Robert Cushman presents his views of the British theatre between 1973-1984 when he was drama critic on The Observer. Episode 2 looks at actors and includes performance...
A personal view of the play by Kenneth Branagh, who played the King of Navarre in the 1984 Royal Shakespeare Company production.
US late night talk and variety show hosted by Tom Synder. May Angelou and Ian McKellen are the guests. McKellen speaks of his role in the film RICHARD III and the nature of costuming and historical accuracy;...
A talk by Professor Errol Hill based on his book of the same title (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984). The book charts the struggle of Afro-American actors, first as exiles, then in the...
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