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Film which follows actor, producer and director John Houseman as he rehearses The Acting Company, the repertory company he established in 1972, in a production of King Lear. The actors are mainly graduates...
A series of seven videotapes featuring Edward Petherbridge in discussions and rehearsal work with students, and in excerpts from his one-man stage show. In part five, TOTAL THEATRE, Petherbridge discusses...
John Barton talks with Ian Richardson and Richard Pasco about their alternating roles in Richard II in the Royal Shakespeare Company production. They illustrate their discussion with specially recorded...
Television arts documentary. In 1976 and 1977 Alan Howard played three major roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s repertory - Coriolanus, Henry V and Henry VI (in parts 1, II and III). The programme...
An introduction to the play which attempts to reproduce Elizabethan acting procedures such as having the same actors playing several roles, thus showing how the plays were originally written for a specific...
A Shakespeare performance master class led by Barry Edelstein. The Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director of The Old Globe in San Diego; Edelstein delivers a short version of a "Thinking Shakespeare Live!" - a...
An introduction to the play’s theme or atmosphere, designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same actors play several roles, thus showing how the plays were...
Three-part radio documentary series, narrated by Sam Waterston, made to mark the 75th anniversary, in 2007, of the Folger Shakespeare Library. The series explores the influence of Shakespeare on American...
`Concise acting versions’ of ten plays read by Richard Burton, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Anna Massey, Sarah Churchill, Michael Redgrave, Peter Finch, Peter O’Toole and others. The...
Television documentary. Actors speak about about the challenge of performing Shakespeare. Their comments are illuminating - Ian McKellen believes his first thirty years of Shakespearean acting to have been...
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