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Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...
Comedy series in which a play is performed live for a studio audience in the ‘Play of the Week’ strand. And every time it goes disastrously wrong. This week Cornley Drama Society stages a little-known...
Feature film. An adaptation of A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Yuriko (Shibamoto) is a Tokyo office worker who decides to give up big city life and return home to Yokatomi Island in Okinawa to avoid her...
Radio play by Joe K. Bevilacqua, billed as a modernisation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ranger Lorie is having a big Valentine’s "Kiss-Off" square dance to help raise money to save her...
Musical comedy. A young man (Green) aspires to a career as a radio star. Along the way, the falls in love with a scientist’s daughter (Lockwood). He then adds several talented friends to his act and...
Independent short. A young child raises others from the cemetery to perform Macbeth one last time. In.a North London cemetery an eclectic group of souls gather to perform a short version of Shakespeare’s...
A live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Geoffrey Smith. Jazz musicians John Dankworth and Cleo Laine celebrate their 80th birthdays with a combination of Shakespeare and jazz. Dankworth...
Radio comedy/variety series. This spisode includes a sketch around ‘Romeo and Juliet’ including some Shakespeare paraphrases to sell the sponsor’s product - beer. Jensen (op cit) writes ‘The...
Radio broadcasts of an extract from Shakespeare’s King Henry (Act IV), with Esmond Knight in the title role.
Sketch comedy web series. William Shakespeare (a starving artist before his big career takes off) finds himself writing entertainment business schlock just to keep himself afloat and his nagging wife happy....
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