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Brief online video extracts from a stage performance of ‘The Othello Project’ by Rod Carley. Carley’s version of Othello (which uses Shakespeare’s lines) is set in Mississippi in 1964 at the height...
Educational television. John Bayley meets a teacher in a crisis. At Islington Green School, deputy head of English, Nick Smith, is teaching Year 11 vocational students Romeo and Juliet. But studying...
BBC television police drama series which follows the work of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS) led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Redman). It is made up of retired police officers...
Documentary. Lenny Henry tells how a comedian had a burning ambition to act in Shakespeare’s plays. There are brief extracts (rehearsal and performance) of Henry in Othello (Rutter’s 2009 production) and...
Science fiction/action adventure series. Buffy Summers is The Chosen One, the one girl in the world with the strength and skill to fight the vampires. With the help of her close friends and her Watcher she...
Feature film. Fictionalised telling of the true story of the 1936 Orson Welles production of Macbeth in Harlem with an all-Black cast, the action relocated to the 19th century in a country reminiscent of...
Feature film adaptation of the play. An attempt to unite Shakespeare with the Italian neo-realist school of film-making, with attractive location photography, and naturalistic crowd scenes. The text is...
A feature film which grew out of Stuart Burge’s experience in directing a BBC television version of the play in 1959, as well as a subsequent London stage production. The pedestrian production was...
Film version of Hamlet of a stage production. It is spoken in English, and set among the Frafra people of northern Ghana. performed by students of the University of Ghana School of Music and Drama.
A televised production of the play. John Bowen’s adaptation transforms the play into a modern political conspiracy thriller with modern dialogue and many strong allusions to political events in the early...
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