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A student film. Berlin, six years after the fall of the wall, is depicted as a permanent building site which long lost its symbolic power to suggest a new prosperity. People are unemployed and homeless...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1983 production of Edward Bond’s play, directed by Barry Kyle with Bob Peck as Lear. ‘In Bond’s play, Lear is a...
Fiction short. A contemporary Romeo climbs a wall to kiss Juliet and is discovered by her father. When her father refuses to give his consent to their marriage Romeo hires bandits to capture her father and...
Chat show hosted by Michael Parkinson. Jonathan Miller is the first guest and talks for c17 minutes. He states that he prefers directing plays and operas to performing. He directed A Midsummer Night’s...
A video recording of the stage production of The Kingdom of Desire written and directed by Wu Hsing-Kuo. The production fuses Shakespeare’s play with the mise-en-scène of Beijing opera.
Television musical variety show. The second half of the programme is wholly devoted to a performance of the Pyramus and Thisbe scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (V.i) performed by the Crazy Gang. Sets...
A television production of the play for schools. Michael Jayston and Barbara Leigh Hunt are the Macbeths.
Opera. Britten’s adaptation of the play introduced by Margaret Juntwait. Instyn Davies is Oberon and James Conlon conducts the New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra.
Radio detective series. In this episode, the Daunt and Dervish Detective Agency is involved in a case of blackmail that takes Josephine and Susan back to the Old Vic Theatre and its current production of...
Feature film epic telling the story of a group of Jewish gangsters from their youth in New York’s Lower East side through Prohibition to their reunion in the 1960s. Antony and Cleopatra is referenced...
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