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US children’s television series. A musical comedy format show aiming to convey concepts of co-operation and guidance for living in contemporary society. Each episode dealt with a topic such as drugs,...
Broadcast of Verdi’s last opera, Falstaff, produced for BBC radio by H. Procter-Gregg. Arrigo Boito, who wrote the libretto, adapted and synthesized his underlying story scenario from both The Merry Wives...
Cambridge Experimental Theatre’s Hamlet, adapted for the stage by Roland Kenyon, challenges the entrenched notions of naturalism, sanctity of text, one-man-one-part and the tragic male hero, in a...
Radio broadcast of Verdi’s ‘Lyrical comedy in three acts’. With Arnold Matters as Falstaff. The BBC Opera Orchestra and Chorus under Stanford Robinson. The programme is presented by Mark Lubbock with...
This radio broadcast of Verdi’s ‘Lyrical comedy in three acts’ was the first of six studio performances given by the BBC Opera Orchestra and Chorus under Stanford Robinson. The programme is presented...
Recording for French television of King Lear directed by André Engel and staged by the Théâtre National de l’Odéon. Michel Piccoli is Lear.
Fiction film version of The Taming of the Shrew directed by D.W. Griffith with Florence Lawrence as Kate and Arthur Johnson as Petruchio. The film omits the Christopher Sly framing and much reduces the...
Live sound recording of Peter Hall’s production of Antony and Cleopatra for the National Theatre with Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench in the title roles.
Video recording of Richard Monette’s 2003 production of Troilus and Cressida for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with David Snelgrove and Claire Jullien in the title roles.
Feature film which made its own myths as the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra was lived in real-life in the well-publicised Burton-Taylor romance. The hugely expensive sets, and Taylor’s protracted...
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