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Video recording using a single camera of a performance of The Shakespeare Revue, directed by Christopher Luscombe and Malcolm McKee, at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, in February 1996. The Revue opened at...
`The Cellar Tapes’ revue. Includes a sketch (7 mins), written and acted, by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, which parodies a Shakespeare masterclass. The speech being worked on is from Troilus and Cressida,...
Feature film. Jack Benny and Conrad Nagel host a musical revue of MGM acts, including Joan Crawford, Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton. Includes a skit (c 6 mins) on Romeo and Juliet, where John Gilbert and...
US children’s television series. A musical comedy format show aiming to convey concepts of co-operation and guidance for living in contemporary society. Each episode dealt with a topic such as drugs,...
Television revue series introduced by Alan Melville. In one four-minute sketch, entitled ‘Wherefore Art Thou, Juliet?', Hugh Paddick and Thelma Ruby are Romeo and Juliet, except that Juliet is speaking...
Televised recording of Katharina Thalbach’s production of As You Like It for the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin, directed for television by Peter Behle. With Anna Thalbach doubling in the roles of...
Television variety charity revue benefiting charitable causes in Great Britain and Africa. Includes a two-minute spoof of Macbeth played as a sitcom. In the living room Mrs Macbeth tells her husband that he...
A sketch from the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, written and performed by Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller, and first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1960. The sketch...
Feature film. The governor of a borstal tries to reform a group of inmates through understanding rather than punishment. Includes a scene in which six would-be escapees enact Brutus’ death scene (V v) from...
A revue. Readings from Shakespeare and songs set to music. Performed cabaret-style in the pub’Will’s Place’. The music embraces jazz, baroque, samba and gospel-rock. First staged by the Shubert...
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