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Television documentary first shown on the digital Community Channel. Documentary recording the life of Ira Aldridge, a 19th-century black American Shakespearean actor who also worked in Britain, taking his...
Radio broadcast. Item (3 mins) from Radio Newsreel. The opening of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford- upon-Avon by Eugene Black with extracts from his speech.
Music/comedy series presented by and starring Cilla Black. The show includes a comedy sketch on Romeo and Juliet written by Talbot Rothwell (screenplay writer of the Carry On films, many of which starred...
Broadcast as part of a mixed variety radio programme, this appears to have been an all-male variety sketch based on Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Written by Con West, this item is presented by John...
Feature film. A version of Othello transported to a shanty town section of Rio de Janeiro. Otelo is the leader of a samba band, Emilia an agreeable black woman, Cassio a guitar player, Iago provides a black...
Schools television series in nine-parts on Macbeth presented by John Lord. The series examines the murder of Duncan. Various aspects of the structure and characters of the play are discussed with some scenes...
Television drama written by Alfred Fagon about a black actor, who, after 14 months without a part, explodes in frustration. No further information on content found (8/2007).
A discussion about good and evil in Othello, recorded during a second-year A-level English literature class at Queen Mary’s College, Basingstoke.
A series of 8mm film-loops on stage make-up produced in co-operation with Clifford John Williams, Principal, Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, England. This loop demonstrates approaches to make-up...
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