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A burlesque version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Adi Hirschal with music by Thomas Hojsa. Adapted by Susanne Wolf.
Rory Kinnear is interviewed by Matt Wolf for a Platform event at the National Theatre. They discuss Kinnear’s approach to playing Hamlet in Nicholas Hytner’s production and the process behind creating...
Televised recording of the premiere of Cole Porter’s musical adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Barrie Kosky for the Komische Oper, Berlin. The orchestra is conducted by Koen Schoots....
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...
Animated cartoon series created by Bob Clampett. It features Beany, a boy, and Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent embarking on a series of adventures, often to discover ancient civilisations and artifacts. These...
A musical set in old Vienna about the composer Otto Nicolai, who wrote Die Lustige Weiber von Windsor, based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The film incorporates some of Nicolai’s music...
A personal view of the play presented by Wolf Mankowitz. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by...
Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play directed and adapted by Hans Hausmann with Rolf Boysen as Othello and Heidelinde Weis as Desdemona. Music composed by Eder Helmut.
First in a series of radio programmes, broadcast over five consecutive days, devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Peggy Reynolds introduces the following musical compositions: Cole Porter’s...
Hallam Tennyson compares translations of two of Shakespeare’s sonnets in French, Italian, and German Readers: Marius Goring, Jean Negroni, Romolo Valli , and Wolf Frees,