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English Majors (2008)

Among the excerpts from Garrison Keillor’s live variety radio show A Prairie Home Companion (1992-2008) are parodies of Hamlet - ‘The Six-Minute Hamlet’ and ‘The Family Shakespeare’. The latter...

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Tender Thing, A (2012 Video)

Director

Helena Kaut-Howson

Video recording of Ben Power’s play which takes Romeo and Juliet as a starting point for a story about two older lovers. Though the words are all Shakespeare’s, the scenes have been shuffled and speeches...

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Songs of Ariel, The (1978 Audio)

An EP (extended play) recording by Ian Charleson of Ariel’s songs. Music is by Guy Woolfenden, played by the Royal Shakespeare Wind Ensemble and conducted by Woolfenden. The music comes from Clifford...

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Jack & James (2014 Television)

aka: Jack and James

Series

Don’t Tell the Bride

Director

Warren Smith

Producer

Warren Smith

Reality television series in which the groom must choose every detail of his wedding, from venue to cake to wedding dress. In the year same-sex marriage became legal in England, former drama student Jack...

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Tonight [22/11/1975] (1976 Television)

Series

Tonight

Twice-weekly television news magazine programme. In this episode Ludovic Kennedy interviews Peggy Ashcroft. In her first television interview Dame Peggy speaks of her unease at the way stage drama translates...

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One is a Lonely Number (1972 Film)

Director

Mel Stuart

Producer

Stan Margulies

Feature film. When Amy Brower’s marriage to her professor husband James breaks up after he leaves with a student, Amy suffers depression and shock and tries to find ways of addressing the situation. In an...

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Shakespeare Comedy Show, The (2006 Television)

Series

Shakespeare Comedy Show, The

Director

Richard D’Alesio

Producer

Jeffrey Berman; Richard D’Alesio; David Huband; Chelsea Hulme

A three-part series which spoofs Shakespeare’s plays in a modern setting. The first episode series includes the sketches ‘Taming of the Bitch’ - a marriage counsellor helps a young couple overcome...

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Sheng Si Tong Xin (1956 Film)

aka: Life and Death Together

Director

Chiang Wai-kwong

Producer

Kwan Chi-kin

Feature film based on Romeo and Juliet. The family feuds between the Chus and the Laws are aggravated by the romance between Chu Lai-Ngo and Law Mo-yin. Chu fakes her death to evade an arranged marriage....

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Tamer Tamed, The (1956 Television)

Producer

Anthony Pelissier

Television drama. A sequel to The Taming of the Shrew written by Elaine Morgan which depicts, in cod-Shakespearean blank verse, how Katharina and Petruchio have fared after a year of marriage. Baptista has...

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Steve Allen Show, The [09/06/1957] (1957 Television)

Series

Steve Allen Show, The

Director

Dwight A. Hemion

US comedy variety show hosted by Steve Allen. In an eight minute excerpt Orson Welles outlines the plot of Othello with the aid of several sketches (drawings) of key scenes. He then proceeds to apply make-up...

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