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Radio programme celebrating the four hundreth anniversary of the performance of King Lear, the new play offered to King James I and his guests at Whitehall Palace on Boxing Day 1606. Presenter Francine Stock...
A production of Kiss Me, Kate first directed for stage by Michael Blakemore on Broadway in 1999 and directed for television for PBS by Chris Hunt. Choreography by Kathleen Marshall with orchestrations by Don...
Live television transmission of Thomas Ostermeier’s stage production of Hamlet directed for the Avignon Festival 2008. ‘To refocus Shakespeare’s work on its hero interpreted by Lars Eidinger, Thomas...
Television arts documentary. Ken Dodd talks to Melvyn Bragg about his career and theories of comedy. Includes Dodd in performance at Manchester Palace Theatre, and reproducing his ‘straight’ role as...
Ron Rosenbaum talks about his book The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups, published by Random House. Rosenbaum took seven years to research and write his book about...
The first experimental television transmission shown at the Radio Olympia exhibition. Two programmes were transmitted from Alexandra Palace daily throughout the Radio Show to September 5th. The programme...
Video recording of the American Conservatory Theatre’s production of Hamlet directed by John C. Fletcher with Byron Jennings in the title role.
Opera. Verdi’s opera staged by Francesco Micheli. Gregory Kunde sings the role of Otello and Lucio Gallo is Iago. The Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice and Piccoli Cantori Veneziani are conducted by...
Biopic. In one scene Queen Victoria is listening to a reading from Richard II. The scene is Act 3, sc. ii `Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king; The breath of...
Uses an excerpt from Olivier’s 1944 production of HENRY V to demonstrate the Globe theatre. Opens with a shot of an elaborate model of London in 1600 and shows London bridge, a general impression of the...
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