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Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the developments...
Segment on children’s theatre in the Soviet Union. Shots of teenagers entering the Lenigrad Children’s Theatre, shuffling about the lobby and inspecting model sets. Excerpts from a production of Romeo...
An introduction to Shakespeare and his times, focusing on the audience and actors in Shakespearean theatre and illustrating the historical context of the plays. Looks at what it was like to be in the...
Video recording of the National Theatre, London’s 2005 production of Theatre of Blood directed by Phelim McDermott with Jim Broadbent as Edward Lionheart. A stage adaptation of the 1973 Douglas Hickox film...
The story behind the preservation of the Rose Theatre, over which the Rose Court office development is built. It reveals the problems that were caused after the remains of the Shakespearean theatre were...
The theatre cast of the original stage production of the play directed by Tyron Guthrie at the Old Vic Theatre, London, re-enacted selected scenes for this televised broadcast. Presentation by Royston Morley.
Theatre in Poland. Includes an excerpt from Wroclaw Mime Theatre’s Hamlet.
A recording, from London’s Duke of York theatre, of Shakespeare’s tragedy broadcast live to UK and international cinemas on 27 September 2018 by National Theatre Live.
The radio talk focuses on Shakespeare and the amateur stage and is given by W. Nugent Monk, who was at the time owner-producer-manager of the Maddermarket Theatre, a theatre with an amateur company, in Norwich.
A recording, from London’s The Bridge Theatre, of Shakespeare’s tragedy broadcast live to UK and international cinemas from the Bridge Theatre on 22 March 2018 by National Theatre Live.