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A response to Hamlet conceived and directed by performance artist Stuart Sherman. The experimental work is composed of flats on which Shakespeare’s ‘script’ is pasted, of Plexiglass cubes containing...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. A comment occuring late in this podcast : "Without Bacon and Shakespeare, we might not have won the war in the Pacific," states Bill Sherman, head of research at...
Radio broadcast. Michael Boyd discusses the overwhelming success of his recent history play cycle in both Stratford and London, his vision for ensemble theatre making and the future of the Royal Shakespeare...
Radio broadcast. Patrick Stewart talks about finally having the opportunity to play the title role in Macbeth, some 50 years after he first memorised the play’s great speeches, and chronicles the...
Artistic Director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the creator of "Tug of War"; Barbara Gaines talks to Professor Stuart Sherman about the themes in this two-part series. Across "Tug of War: Foreign...
Radio comedy series. This episode focuses on a school production of Romeo and Juliet. Michael P. Jensen (op cit) observes ‘This truly dreadful program is a strange combination of comedy and soap...
American television comedy western series loosely based upon Asa Mercer’s efforts to bring civilisation to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States in the 1860s,...
Feature film with a scene in which Katharine Hepburn as an ambitious actress seeking to impress makes a spectacle of herself reciting the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy, and a few lines from the balcony...
A production of The Taming of the Shrew, with a heavily cut text, set in the 1950s.
Satellite radio broadcast. Barbara Gaines, founder and artistic director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, talks about the company’s evolution from a classical acting workshop to a major institution. She...
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