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What would happen if you made a boring old set text into a high-school romcom?. Junger’s adaptation, set in a suburban Seattle high school is ‘smart and sassy, a brightly contemporary retelling of The...
BBC radio morning magazine programme presented by Jack de Manio. Includes a short item on Peter, a budgerigar at Guildford Public Library, who can speak the lines ‘to be or not to be’ and’friends,...
Shakespeare’s sonnets read by John Gielgud.
Last in a twelve-part series of schools talks by J.C. Stobart and R.E. Jeffrey about the portrayal of kings in Shakespeare’s plays. This final episode seems to focus on some of the dukes instead.
Third in a twelve-part series of schools talks by J.C. Stobart and R.E. Jeffrey about the portrayal of kings in Shakespeare’s plays.
Videorecording of the one-man play by William Luce starring Christopher Plummer as American acting legend John Barrymore. With his career in tatters, ageing actor John Barrymore rents an old theatre and...
Constant Lambert arranges and conducts two performances of the music from Purcell’s ‘opera’ (performed by the BBC Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra) which was first put on stage in 1692.
Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speaks about the cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays which he has directed. He also speaks of the advantages of the thrust stage and how...
Arts review series. The first item reports on a Zulu production of Macbeth staged as part of Peter Daubeny’s World Theatre Season at the Aldwych Theatre, London. The play is uMabatha by Welcome Msomi. (See...
Instructional film which considers how Shakespeare’s work is relevant to contemporary audiences quoting from several plays to indicate the phrases and expressions still used today. Includes footage of...