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A comedy gala to benefit Amnesty International staged at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. The evening consisted of comedy sketches and music. One sketch, written by Richard Sparks, features Atkinson as a...
Video of 5 Shakespearean monologues, each in a different Nigerian language (with English subtitles), featuring the JOS repertory company of Nigeria. These include: Macbeth in Pidgin English narrated by...
US comedy short series. Inspired by the success of his favourite comedian Red Skelton, Froggy (Billy Laughlin) decides to become a radio star. Armed with a tattered joke book and an array of ‘funny’...
A production directed by Jeroen Williams and Paul Koek in a version by Tom Blokdijk. The co-production of Southern Theater Hallandia and Staddschouwburg, Utrecht, set at a fair, combines circus with...
Television broadcast of Bronson’s production of the play. Relayed live from the Phoenix Theatre, London, with Peggy Ashcroft as Viola and Michael Redgrave as Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
Dutch television production of Romeo and Juliet directed by and introduced by Jack Dixon, with Carol Linssen and Paula Petri in the title roles.
Radio comedy series written by and starring Fred Allen. Maurice Evans and Allen joke about the misfit between lowbrow radio and highbrow culture (Shakespeare). Evans performs an extract from the ghost scene...
Television drama about the Regency dandy Beau Brummell focusing on his relationship with the Prince Regent. There are Shakespeare references throughout especially in two short scenes in which the Prince asks...
Animated cartoon burlesque. ‘Amlet drives Ophelia mad by offering her vegetables instead of flowers, then cutting off her hair ("to bob or not to bob"). Laertes complains to the King of ‘Amlet’s...
German radio play written by Jens Rehn and produced by Horst Loebe. Set in a station waiting-room in a German town in November 1948, the year of the currency reform. Snatches from Shakespeare’s sonnets...
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