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Freddy Versus Hamlet (1916 Film)

Director

Frank Currier

Fiction film comedy. Wiggins takes Mabel to the theatre, where they snub Freddy. Mabel flirts with the actor playing Hamlet and she joins him for a soda at the drug store. Wiggins and the actor are both...

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I’m Here I Think, Where Are You? [20/5/2008] (2008 Radio)

Series

I’m Here I Think, Where Are You?

5-part radio serial in which actor Timothy West reads excerpts from his letters, written over the course of 30 years as a touring actor, to his wife, Prunella Scales. In this episode, Timothy West reflects...

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Reconstructing the Bankside Theatres (1985 Television, Video)

Series

Shakespeare, Course A361

Producer

Tony Coe

Professor Glynne Wickham looks at the latest proposals to reconstruct Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre near its original site in Southwark, examining the historical evidence for the construction of theatres in...

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Intermission (2009 Film)

Director

Girard Swan

Producer

Girard Swan; Justin Howard

Independent feature film. A community theatre production of Hamlet is set to open when the production loses its lead actor. The company then, unknowingly, brings in a madman actor, who is convinced he...

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Nina of the Theatre (1914 Film)

aka: Nina of the Theater

Director

Kenean Buel

Fiction film issued by Kalem in a two-reel instalment. The first is a story about an actress (Joyce) who is in love with an actor (Moore) and includes two stage scenes at least one of which the actress...

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Sir John Martin Harvey and Nina de Silva (1926 Radio)

Radio programme. Actor couple J. Martin Harvey and Nina de Silva (Lady Harvey) perform 3 scenes from their repertoire, one of which is the wooing scene from Shakespeare’s Richard III.

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Globe Theatre Schools Video, The (1998 Television, Video)

Series

English File

An introduction to Shakespeare and his times, focusing on the audience and actors in Shakespearean theatre and illustrating the historical context of the plays. Looks at what it was like to be in the...

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When Macbeth Came to Snakeville (1914 Film)

Director

Roy Clements

Comedy western. The world’s greatest tragedian is due to perform at Snakeville’s Opry House. The Tank Town troupe arrives and stays at Slim’s (Potel) boarding house. Slim’s wife Sophie (Joslin) is...

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Oneiro Kalokairinis Nyhtas (1999 Film)

aka: Athens Summer Dream, An

Director

Dimitris Athanitis

Producer

Dimitris Athanitis

Independent feature film. An actor decides to fulfil his ambition of putting together a theatre company to enable him to play the part of Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. An audition takes place and...

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From the London Theatre: Scene from ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1935 Radio)

This episode of the weekly radio theatre programme introduces Jewish actor Maurice Schwartz. The broadcast contains a scene from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice acted by members of the Yiddish Art...

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