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Radio comedy anthology series. This episode is about a bridegroom who makes the mistake of using The Taming of the Shrew as a guidebook for a happy marriage.
A production on Twelfth Night directed by John Christian Plummer for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival with Katie Hartke as Viola. Julie Cohen directs for television.
Radio adaptation starring Freddie Jones as Falstaff in Shakespeare’s ‘Elizabethan sitcom’. Miriam Margoyles and Paula Wilcox co-star as the scheming wives, with Elizabeth Spriggs as Mistress Quickly, a...
The soprano, Eva-Maria Westbroek stars as Katerina Ismailova in Shostakovich’s 20th Century masterpiece. Bored with her life and marriage, Katerina falls for Sergey; a worker in her husband’s factory....
American television satirical animation series. In this episode Homer and the family visit London. Walking past a theatre, they encounter Ian McKellen, currently appearing in Macbeth. Unaware of the...
Feature film comedy. A group of young actors rehearsing a production of Macbeth find their roles are reflecting and shaping their personalities. Claudia (Gloria Reuben) and Max (David Lansbury) both audition...
An adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel by Ken Taylor. In one scene (Chapter 34 in the book) Henry Crawford impresses Fanny Price by his ability to read aloud from Shakespeare. Henry reads from Henry VIII...
Video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2000 production of Timon of Athens directed by Michael Kahn and videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor. Philip Goodwin is Timon.
In this 2-minute phonogramme sample, recorded by Fritz Hauser in 1906, the 80-year old German actor and long-standing star of the Vienna Burgtheater, Bernhard Baumeister, declaims Falstaff’s speech from...
Television soap opera. CORONATION STREET for many months had been running a story in which Mike Baldwin (played by Johnny Briggs) was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In this episode, confused and...
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