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A live sound recording of Edward Bond’s play Lear first performed at the Royal Court theatre, London. Harry Andrews is Lear.
Live audio recording of John Schlesinger’s 1977 production of Julius Caesar for the National Theatre with John Gielgud as Caesar and Mark McManus as Mark Antony.
Television production of the play, adapted by John Barton. A romantic conception, lavishly designed in the Regency period. Interpreted with clarity but with no great insights. Richard Chamberlain is Hamlet.
Combined book and audio CD. The CD includes Orson Welles reciting the ‘tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’ soliloquy, and Stephen Dillane performing the same speech from the New Cambridge Shakespeare...
Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same...
Documentary. Ethan Hawke presents a documentary on Macbeth. Excerpts: MACBETH (CBC, 1962) d. Paul Almond. MACBETH (1971) d. Polanski. MACBETH (2001) d. Doran. MACBETH (2010) d. Goold. There is also a...
Arts documentary. With five major productions taking place in 2016, the film looks at why King Lear resonates so deeply with contemporary audiences. Don Warrington, Antony Sher, Timothy West, Michael...
Feature film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Eliminating cinematic narrative and theatrical staging the film was harshly treated by the critics.
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...
In the first episode of the Monty Python special (performed in phonetic German), a documentary about Albrecht Dürer is interrupted by a condensed performance of The Merchant of Venice, starring ‘The Bad...
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