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Performance tape for SHAKESPEARE - BREATHING LIFE INTO TEXT. Demonstrates the different disciplines of theatre directing and film directing. Shows two different directors in two different media working with...
Gregory Doran’s film of his modern dress RSC production which opened at the Swan Theatre in 1999. This video version was specially shot for television broadcast at the London Roundhouse, using the original...
Retelling of Othello for a contemporary audience, with a teenage cast and set in a high school. A young man becomes blinded with jealousy and rage when his friend captains the basketball team instead of him....
The Tempest, adapted for radio, with Philip Madoc as Prospero and Nina Wadia as the spirit Ariel. Introduced by Richard Eyre.
A contemporary television adaptation by Andrew Davies of Shakespeare’s Othello. London’s black population is angry when a black man has died in police custody and it becomes politically expedient to...
Director and writer Michael Rubbo argues that Shakespeare’s plays were written by Christopher Marlowe. British academics and Shakespeare scholars, including Stanley Wells and Jonathan Bate, put an opposing...
Independent, digital, low-budget production, heavily abridged, with a re-working of Richard as a Rambo-esque war hero. This may be the first film of Richard II.
In 1990, the Mabou Mines theatre group worked to perform an abridged version of King Lear directed by Lee Breuer featuring gender-reversed roles and set in 1950s America. The film follows the director Lee...
Peter Brook’s 2002 screen adaptation of Hamlet based on his Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, production The Tragedy of Hamlet.
A version of the play which in the costumes and reproduction of the Globe theatre stage contribute to recreating the impression of 16th-century performance. Efrem Zimbalist Jnr is Prospero.
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