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Propaganda short. Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man’s suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography. When the suit is being cut up to make clothes for the...
BBC Radio 2’s live music and interview show presented by Simon Mayo. In this episode Mayo talks Simon Callow about his new project Shakespeare: The Man From Stratford. In this one-man stage show, written...
A video recording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s all-male production of Richard II with Mark Rylance in the title role.
Late-night music/comedy series. In this episode, in a sketch entitled ‘Improv Hamlet’ and set in the Globe Theatre, Shakespeare (Lovitz)) is told that Richard Burbage has been replaced by another actor...
A National Theatre production staged at the Cottesloe Theatre in 1995 and recorded with a single fixed camera. Fiona Shaw plays King Richard II; Deborah Warner directs.
Comedy short. An experienced actor directs a melodrama for an amateur troupe. A jealous young man sabotages the set.
Steven Berkoff, in a one-man show, explores and analyses some of Shakespeare’s most villainous characters - Iago, the Macbeths, Shylock, Richard III; characters who are inherently evil, others whose...
British television comedy series. This episode includes the sketch ‘The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams’. Part of the dialogue is as follows: Palin: And I believe you’re working on an anagram version of...
Live audio recording at the Royal Court Theatre, London of Howard Barker’s play Seven Lears, a prequel to King Lear in which Barker re-invents and enlarges the roles of Lear’s women. The play is divided...
Commissioned by the BBC World Service, the American comedy trio Reduced Shakespeare Company condenses Shakespeare’s canon into six 30-minute episodes.
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