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Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. Includes an interview with actor Ben Crystal on what Shakespeare’s plays sounded like when first performed. Crystal demonstrates with examples from...
Video recording of David William’s 1992 production of The Tempest for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Alan Scarfe is Prospero.
Video recording of Michael Langham’s production of Measure for Measure for the 1992 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Brian Bedford is Duke Vincentio and Elizabeth Marvel is Isabella.
A collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets read by actors, and songs inspired by the sonnets. The many performers include John Gielgud, Annie Lennox, Richard Attenborough, Peter Barkworth, Bryan Ferry, Kenneth...
Comedian Lenny Henry and director Barrie Rutter talk about studying just 14 lines of Othello, and Peter Kirwan speaks on his year seeing every production in the RSC’s Complete Works Season.
Radio documentary following stand-up comedian Lenny Henry as he prepares to take on the role of Othello for Barrie Rutter’s production of the play at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. Covering...
US comedy variety show hosted by Steve Allen. In an eight minute excerpt Orson Welles outlines the plot of Othello with the aid of several sketches (drawings) of key scenes. He then proceeds to apply make-up...
A practical guide to fighting with a rapier and a dagger. It also chronicles the advent of the civilian duel and looks at its different styles, including twelve costumed fights from a variety of periods. The...
Michael Kahn’s distillation of the Henry VI trilogy for the Shakespeare Theatre Company with Philip Goodwin as Henry. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.
As part of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s sonnets, 14 sonnets are read by Sir Ian McKellen as drop-ins through the day’s programmes, starting off with the 7am BREAKFAST...
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