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Ayanna Thompson, director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University, discusses the work of director Peter Sellars. She and Sellars are both interviewed by Barbara...
The play re-imagined with four actors. Directed by Peter Sellars for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival.
In part 2 theatre and opera director Peter Sellars works with a multi-racial cast on his new production of The Merchant of Venice, in which Venice becomes Venice Beach, LA and Belmont is transformed into Bel...
Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In episode three Kustow explores the challenges of presenting and studying Shakespeare in...
Special edition of the arts show. A report on Deborah Warner’s difficulties in staging a German-language production of Coriolanus for the Salzburg Festival in 1993. Peter Stein (the festival’s director)...
In three parts: 1) a workshop on scenes from As You Like It run by actress Fiona Shaw, exploring the language of the play; 2) an assessment of the 1994 production of the play staged by Cheek by Jowl; 3) a...
Radio broadcast. Piers Burton-Page discusses with classicist Edith Hall and literary historian Roger Savage, why the tradition of deus ex machina is so enduring, focusing on the operas of Mozart and the...
Christie Carson interviews theatre designer Jenny Tiramani. Tirimani speaks of the influence of seeing local amateur productions as a child. She talks of her working with Ultz, John McGrath and Mark Rylance...
The first of two programmes in which two directors from both sides of the Atlantic (Adrian Noble and Peter Sellars) use workshops to explore their personal visions of Shakespeare’s plays. In part 1 Adrian...
Feature film version of the play. Widely criticised and a commercial failure, the film was received as an interesting deconstruction or completely unintelligible according to taste. The film makes the...