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Feature film. ‘Comedy based on the characters created by Bruce Bairnsfather. Old Bill, in the trenches during the First World War, eats tinned lobster and dreams that he and his friends travel back in time...
Video recording of Bill Alexander’s 2000 production of Hamlet for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre with Richard McCabe in the title role.
Television production of Cole Porter’s musical based on The Taming of the Shrew.
Television documentary. Before 1960 the Royal Shakespeare Company staged a limited season of plays at Stratford. In 1963, with two permanent theatres, one in London’s West End, a full-time company of ca....
US television version of Kiss Me, Kate directed by Paul Bogart with Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence in the lead roles. Music arranged by Jack Elliott and Ray Charles.
Live sound recording of Bill Bryden’s 1982 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Paul Scofield as Oberon and Susan Fleetwood as Titania.
Feature film. The governor of a borstal tries to reform a group of inmates through understanding rather than punishment. Includes a scene in which six would-be escapees enact Brutus’ death scene (V v) from...
The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Sophie...
Television series, in six episodes, on the life and times of William Shakespeare. Writer John Mortimer based each episode around events in Shakespeare’s life to suggest how they influenced his writing. In...
Bill Nighy stars as the actor-cum-amateur sleuth in the four-part detective drama series adapted by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett. Louche actor Charles Paris has managed to secure a role in a...
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