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Podcast. The director Damian Sandys talks about how Shakespeare for Breakfast, which offers a modernised version of a Shakespeare play with coffee and buns, has been a perennial at the Edinburgh Festival...
Recording of a live lecture by Dr Anthony Quinn on Romeo and Juliet, which focuses in part on three film versions: the George Cukor version released in 1936, the Renato Castellani adaptation from 1954 and...
Sir Derek Jacobi reflects on his first of 400 performances of Hamlet beginning at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1957. He shares his personal discovery of the meaning of Hamlet’s words and his motivations.
A modern television interpretation of Shakespeare’s play, with contemporary dialogue, presented as a screwball comedy and set in a provincial newsroom. Beatrice and Benedick discuss and analyse Sonnet 116...
Independent film directed by Peter Babakitis which offers parallels with Western colonialism and the invasion of Iraq.
Feature film. A Maori-language adaptation of The Merchant of Venice.
Podcast. Sir Ian McKellen talks to Barbara Bogaev about Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Most recently he played the title role in Sean Mathias’ 2021 gender-, race-, and age-blind production at the Theatre Royal...
Animation. In the marital bed the surreal sensuality enveloping Othello and Desdemona is disturbed by a dangling telephone. As the phone pours poison into Othello’s mind he transforms into a different...
Recording of an online production of Shakespeare’s play performed over Zoom. Set in a post-apocalyptic near-future, the casting is gender-blind. Cast: Rich Sandford: King Henry V Sarah Gregori: Rambures...
The twenty-first in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...
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