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Radio documentary series presented by Linda Cookson. Directors, designers and leading actors discuss the planning and staging of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current stage production of A Midsummer...
A 3-disc set including 30-minute animated adaptations of twelve of Shakespeare’s best known plays. With voices provided by such actors including Hugh Grant, Antony Sher, Jenny Agutter, Stephen Tompkinson...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1983 production of Edward Bond’s play, directed by Barry Kyle with Bob Peck as Lear. ‘In Bond’s play, Lear is a...
An adaptation of Romeo and Juliet radically interpreting the text, while preserving the verse. Set in a futuristic Verona, the film uses shock cuts, speeded-up trick motion, and a rock music score. Leonardo...
A video recoridng, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare’ Company’s 1982 production of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Barry Kyle with Alun Armstrong as Petruchio and Sinead Cusack...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1982 production of King Lear. Directed by Adrian Noble with Michael Gambon as Lear and Antony Sher as the Fool.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1986 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Directed by Bill Alexander with Janet McTeer as Titania and Gerard Murphy...
Feature film version of the play. A naturalistic and literal reading with few interpretative touches. Gibson’s Hamlet is a man of action and with the text heavily cut (over 80%) he dominates the majority...