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A mini-series based on Macbeth in which the character of King Duncan is transformed into the Rain Queen, the sister of Macbeth (Prince Matlatladiane). When Prince Matlatladiane returns victorious with...
Feature film post-war western, based on a story by W.R. Burnett and with parallels to The Tempest. Tells the story of an outlaw leader, Stretch (Peck), who takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only...
Feature film. A French-Spanish derivative of Othello set in the late 1970s in which Othello is cast as a mercenary soldier fighting in Africa. Courtney Lehmann in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (op cit)...
Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2012 production of Julius Caesar directed by Gregory Doran with an all-black British cast. Ray Fearon is Mark Antony and Joseph Paterson plays Brutus. The...
Video recording using a single, fixed camera, of The Tempest directed by Janice Honeyman. Antony Sher is Prospero in a production influenced by African ritual, music and dance. The cast is all South African.
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2012 production of Julius Caesar directed for television by Gregory Doran. An all-black British cast includes Ray Fearon as Mark Antony and Joseph Paterson as Brutus. The...
Feature animation film. At Pride Rock in Africa, a young lion prince, Simba, is born to Mufasa, king of the lions thus making his embittered and politically ambitious uncle, Scar, the second in line to the...
1: The diversity of ‘varieties’ of English in use throughout the world including public school/Oxbridge, post-colonial in India and Africa, feminist, high-tech, American, Pacific Basin, gay, academic....
Living Shakespeare is a collection of filmed essays commissioned by the British Council as part of the Shakespeare Lives project which celebrates Shakespeare’s influence on culture, language, education and...
A Zulu version of Macbeth incorporating music and dance. ‘Shakespeare’s Macbeth was chosen by Welcome Msomi as perfect source material on which to base a Zulu adaptation, as it seemed ‘almost a carbon...
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