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Short. Drama set in a provincial repertory theatre where a production of Macbeth is taking place.
BBC television comedy series. Billed as ‘an episode in the life of a laughing stock of television’. Howerd plays an out-of-work, frustrated, small part actor, desperate to secure a Shakespearean role....
Television arts documentary. When Ian McKellen joined the National Theatre in 1984, he was asked by The South Bank Show to keep an audiotape diary of his experiences as an actor over the next twelve months....
The thirty-first in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...
5-part radio serial in which actor Timothy West reads excerpts from his letters, written over the course of 30 years as a touring actor, to his wife, Prunella Scales. In this episode, Timothy West reflects...
Radio programme. Actor couple J. Martin Harvey and Nina de Silva (Lady Harvey) perform 3 scenes from their repertoire, one of which is the wooing scene from Shakespeare’s Richard III.
The fifteenth in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...
Actor Simon Russell Beale looks back on The Hollow Crown, the BBC’s 2012 adaptations of Shakespeare’s Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V. Beale’s performance as Falstaff won him...
Feature film. An English multicultural theatre company in contemporary New Delhi is staging a Kathakali production of Othello. The director (Abel) unconventionally casts an inexperienced small town actor...
Presents a series of exercises relating to basic acting problems. Shows the work of a first-year group of students at the Central School of Speech and Drama; their activities guided by the actor Harold Lang....
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