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Feature film re-locating Romeo and Juliet to modern Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Romeo is an Israeli Jew and Juliet a young Palestinian. The film doesn’t follow the text but alludes to many...
A largely fictionalised black comedy based on the activities of the eponymous grave robbers. In this version of events, one of the motivations for the criminal actions of William Burke (Simon Pegg) is his...
US television variety show. Includes a scene in which Eddie Fisher and Margaret O’Brien perform the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Video recording of Marti Maraden’s 1992 production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the Young Company at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Mervon Mehta is Valentine and Scott Fisher/Neil...
Video recording of Robin Phillips’ and William Hutt’s 1976 production of Hamlet for the Young Company at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Richard Monette and Nicholas Pennell played the...
Documentary on the making of Kenneth Branagh’s HENRY V. Shows the film in production and provides , extracts from the finished film and interviews with actors and crew.
Offbeat British television drama series created by Paul Abbott. Set in Stretford, Manchester, it follows the lives of the Chatsworth Estate’s Gallaghers, "UK’s most dysfunctional family" (Channel 4 press...
Designed to show how the physical features of the Elizabethan stage influenced the work of Shakespeare. The duties of the bookholder, the props and costumes, actors in the ‘tiring room’, and boys playing...
Feature film. Theological thriller in which some critics have seen parallels with Hamlet in its theme of madness. In a gothic castle called Center 18, the US military attempts to establish whether a group...
Chat show hosted by Michael Parkinson. Jonathan Miller is the first guest and talks for c17 minutes. He states that he prefers directing plays and operas to performing. He directed A Midsummer Night’s...
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