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Video recording of Forkbeard Fantasy’s Rough Magyck. Part outdoor, part indoor, Rough Magyck goes in search of the of the supernatural in Shakespeare mixing mechanical sets, film and cartoon, outlandish...
Fiction short. A Shakespearean actor loses his part as the manager feels that he is too old. Helping a beggar in the street he is surprised to see how much money the beggar has made. Unable to get new work...
Fiction film issued by Kalem in a two-reel instalment. The first is a story about an actress (Joyce) who is in love with an actor (Moore) and includes two stage scenes at least one of which the actress...
Video recording of Michael Tolaydo’s 1999 staging of Ronald Harwood’s play based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. An actor-manager of the old school takes a...
Stage video recording of Julia Pascal’s re-working of King Lear. Set in New York in the late 1930s, a once-famous Yiddish actress gives her theatre business over to her three daughters. In the first...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In the decades after Shakespeare’s death, his works fell out of favour. His renaissance is usually credited to actor-manager David Garrick, who staged a...
Radio adaptation of a play written by Ronald Harwood which is based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. An actor-manager of the old school takes a Shakespearean company...
Portrait written by Edith Sitwell of would-be-actor and English eccentric Robert ‘Romeo’ Coates, also known as Cock-a-doodle-doo Coates. Son of a West Indian millionaire, Coates arrived in England with...
BBC schools broadcast in which actor-manager Robert Atkins directs a group of students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth (see notes). The programme is meant to...
Radio play written by John Arden. Set in the years leading to the English Civil War it concerns a 17th-century playwright in the tradition of Shakespeare, Backhouse (David Calder),and a mysterious woman...
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