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Radio sketch by Frank Burton with Ivan Samson and Lillian Harrison, presented as part of a mixed programme of music and light entertainment. No further information available (1/2008).
Television variety show. In one sketch Eva Gabor reveals an ambition to play Shakespeare but her manservant (Wattis) puts a stop to it. No further details available (6/2007).
A modern interpretation by the English Shakespeare Company, recorded at the Grand Theatre, Swansea before a live audience. The seven plays in the ‘Wars of the Roses’ cycle were performed over seven...
Neil Aldrich recites Shakespeare’s sonnets, and other works, speculating about the recitative convention employed in the 17th century. The delivery is rap-like, very different from the performance norm....
US comedy variety show hosted by Steve Allen. This episode includes a comedy monologue (9 mins) from Andy Griffith relating the plot and characters of Romeo and Juliet.
Extract from the arts anthology series. Dr Frank Baxter discusses the design of the Globe Theatre, why Shakespearean clowns are not funny, and how the Elizabethans perceived their world. Hosted by Alistair...
Radio broadcast. Item (3 mins) from Radio Newsreel. The opening of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford- upon-Avon by Eugene Black with extracts from his speech.
Feature film. An awkward Scottish schoolboy eventually finds love. Comedy set in a Scottish new town. Includes a scene in a classroom where Andy (Buchanan) reads aloud from Puck’s speech ending `...and...
Video recording by the Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) using a single, fixed camera, of Adrian Noble’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Alex Jennings as Oberon and Lindsay Duncan as Titania....
A revue. Readings from Shakespeare and songs set to music. Performed cabaret-style in the pub’Will’s Place’. The music embraces jazz, baroque, samba and gospel-rock. First staged by the Shubert...
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