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BBC Radio 3’s arts and ideas series offering extended interviews and debate. Marking Shakespeare’s 450th anniversary Janet Suzman talks to Philip Dodd about acting, directing and South African politics.
Cinemagazine. Shakespeare quatercentenary celebrations in Stratford-upon-Avon and Trinidad. In Trinidad, dancers in the street portray Shakespeare’s characters as part of a carnival procession. Commentator...
Radio broadcast. Lewis Nkose interviews the South African poet Raymond Kunene about the influence of Shakespeare on African poets.
This television production marked the directorial debut of Janet Suzman and was staged in her native South Africa by the Market Theatre of Johannesburg. Casting black actor John Kani in the title role, the...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. While Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the other political prisoners managed to retain a copy of Shakespeare’s complete...
Professor Tony Davies, former head of the Department of English at Fort Hare University in South Africa and Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez, senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Malaga,...
Video recording made at the Market Theatre Johannesburg of a production of Titus Andronicus directed by Gregory Doran with Antony Sher as Titus.
Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In episode two Kustow examines the political uses of Shakespeare, particularly under...
Video recording using a single, fixed camera, of The Tempest directed by Janice Honeyman. Antony Sher is Prospero in a production influenced by African ritual, music and dance. The cast is all South African.
Television arts documentary series. A profile of Nigel Hawthorne as he prepares to play the title role in King Lear, directed by Ninagawa, for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The programme follows him through...
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