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Feature film. An awkward Scottish schoolboy eventually finds love. Comedy set in a Scottish new town. Includes a scene in a classroom where Andy (Buchanan) reads aloud from Puck’s speech ending `...and...
Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuyler, New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday and composer Michelle Assay have looked at the murdering husband and wife of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Chris...
Feature film. A comedy drama in which a successful actress starts rehearsing the role of Lady Macbeth at a small New England theater and finds herself haunted by the ghost of William Shakespeare - who would...
Produced by the BBC’s Training Department and conceived as a comedy, highlights the problems which can beset a badly organised film unit on location. Shows the problems experienced by such a production...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The curses associated with the Scottish play or using a real skull for the Yorick scene in Hamlet, over the centuries, these and other theatrical anecdotes have...
2-disc CD. Alan Cumming delivers a virtuoso performance playing every role in the National Theatre of Scotland’s presentation of Macbeth. This reimagining is set in a psychiatric unit in which Cumming is...
Television series on Scottish art. Focuses on TAG (Theatre in Glasgow) originally set up as the educational arm of the the Citizens’ Theatre. Follows a touring production of King Lear for schools as they...
Travelogue on places in and around Stratford-upon-Avon: the Tudor home of John Harvard, Shakespeare’s birthplace and school, New Place, Anne Hathaway’s cottage, Warwick Castle, Kenilworth Castle, the...
Sir Tyrone Guthrie talks about his life and theatrical career in an interview with Grace Lydiatt Shaw recorded at his home in Ireland. He speaks of the Scottish National Players in Edinburgh, and staging...
Charity appeal for Red Nose day. In this sketch David Tennant plays Mr Logan, a new English teacher. Teenage pupil Lauren (Tate) challenges his ability to teach English when he is Scottish. He tries to...