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A version of King Lear using the theatrical formalism of Beijing opera as a medium in which to read Shakespeare’s play. The director translates Lear into a three-act, one-actor piece of performance art,...
Television production with John Stride in the title role and Claire Bloom as Queen Katherine.
Feature film and Olivier’s directorial debut. The film opens with a typical performance at the Globe Theatre in 1600, moves gradually into reality for the battle and then returns to the Globe. Intended as...
Live sound recording of Macbeth directed by Peter Hall and John Russell Brown with Albert Finney and Dorothy Tutin as the Macbeths.
Stage recording of Peymann’s production for the famed Berliner Ensemble transmitted on German television. Initially set in an eerie sterile monochrome landscape, the production charts the demise of...
Richard II adapted for radio, with Samuel West as Richard II, Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt and Janet Suzman as Duchess of Gloucester. Introduced by Richard Eyre. Music composed by Sylvia Hallett.
Episode 18 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Henry VI,...
A compilation of 20 extracts from live recordings made by the British Library Sound Archive of Royal Shakespeare Company productions over four decades. The set offers scenes and speeches from some of the...
Video recording, using a single, fixed, camera, of the 1983 Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Henry VIII. Directed by Howard Davies and David Edgar with Richard Griffiths as Henry VIII and John...
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