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Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to James Ijames about his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Fat Ham, a radical interpretation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet featuring a queer Black Hamlet character named Juicy and set...
Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. In this edition he talks to those responsible for such Hamlet variations as a musical version, The Northman’s Amleth and...
Podcast. An interview with Marquis D. Gibson, the star of the highly praised Hamlet adaptation, Fat Ham.
Radio play written by Geoffrey Heptonstall in which Sir Swindon Reynold (Richard Vernon), a celebrated ham actor, recalls his encounter, from 1934 on, with William Shakespeare. No further information known...
Fiction film comedy concerning a ham actor (Humphrey) who, with his company, leaves town without paying his hotel bill. Pursued by a policemen he takes refuge in a private house where he stumbles upon some...
Warner Brothers cartoon. A Shakespearean dog, tired of being a Looney Tune character, quits Warner Brothers to study dramatic acting and goes to his country house to practise. He finds that the Goofy Gophers...
Video recording of the National Theatre, London’s 2005 production of Theatre of Blood directed by Phelim McDermott with Jim Broadbent as Edward Lionheart. A stage adaptation of the 1973 Douglas Hickox film...
US comedy sketch show. In one sketch Hamlet becomes a private eye, Private Orb Ham Spade working on the killing of his father assisted by his secretary, Ophelia. Jensen (op cit) notes that it parodies the...
Glen Tetley creates a new work, The Tempest, for Ballet Rambert. This is his first full-length ballet. The programme, presented by Kenneth Corden and narrated by Michael Oliver, shows the process from...
Feature film. Gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) accepts $5,000 to fly to a remote resort in Mexico for purposes undisclosed. On arrival, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing...
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