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Video recording of Rupert Goold’s 2007 production of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood as the Macbeths.
Feature film. Richard Burton portrays Edwin Booth, the 19th century American actor. Booth is helped to success by his wife, Mary. When his brother, John Wilkes, assassinates President Lincoln, Edwin faces...
British television comedy series. Includes a sketch, presented in newsreel style, satirising Mary Whitehouse’s campaign against pornography. A coach load of ‘pepperpots’ (middle-class grey-haired women...
13-part weekly radio series on music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Each episode focuses on a different play and is introduced by a different presenter (see below). Where an edition of London Calling was...
Radio version of the play adapted by Barbara Burnham. Hugh Griffith plays Leontes, Margaret Rawlings stars as Paulina and Phyllis Neilson-Terry is Hermione. With music composed and conducted by Norman Fulton.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1983 production of Edward Bond’s play, directed by Barry Kyle with Bob Peck as Lear. ‘In Bond’s play, Lear is a...
This special Old Vic number in the series includes a talk on the theatre by Ralph Richardson and pre-recorded scenes from John Burrell’s Edinburgh Festival theatre production of The Taming of the Shrew...
Video recording. The production combines Shakespeare’s text with circus, multimedia, visual metaphor and aerial choreography inspired by the events of the War of the Roses. Richard is played by several...
Lavish and festive feature film adaptation of the play set in Tuscany and using a British and pan-American cast. Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation is ‘full of sunny high spirits and still terrific fun to...
First of a two-part production of Shakespeare’s play for radio. The first two acts of the play are arranged for broadcasting by Peter Dews. With Derek Hart as Henry, Prince of Wales and Norman Shelley as...
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