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A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2001 production of Hamlet. Directed by Steven Pimlott with Samuel West as Hamlet.
Radio documentary. As part of a three-hour tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bernstein’s musical, two documentary programmes look at the origins of the musical, how it made its way to Broadway,...
Television documentary aimed at getting young people engaged with Shakespeare’s language. Over the past year thousands of secondary schoolchildren took part in a competition to learn some of...
Examines how the comic exchanges between Falstaff and Prince Hal illuminate the serious historical and political themes of the play. Director John Russell Brown is shown working through some famous scenes...
Independent feature film. Set in New York’s Lower East Side, a reworking of Romeo and Juliet and updating of WEST SIDE STORY using rock music. The interracial love affair between an Italian boy and a...
Video recording of a performance by the New York City Ballet of the suite by Jerome Robbins derived from ‘West Side Story’. Taped with a single camera from a fixed wide-angle position at the New York...
The Merchant of Venice, adapted for radio, with Warren Mitchell as Shylock, Martin Jarvis as Antonio and Samuel West as Bassanio. Introduced by Richard Eyre.
The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Emily...
Radio documentary hosted by Scott Simon, on the show West Side Story. Members of the original creative team and cast discuss the show’s birth, members of the movie cast discuss the show’s translation...
Radio broadcast. Isn’t silent Shakespeare an oxymoron? All that’s nuanced, beautiful, meaningful in the poetry - silenced. Yet between 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was released,...
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