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A fortnightly theatre review programme. In this episode a panel of experts examines Shakespeare’s tragedy with illustrated extracts. The panel consists of Michael Redgrave, Frank Birch, and Philip...
Feature film. An adaptation of Nikolai Leskov’s novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. A 19th century young bride is sold into marriage to a middle-aged man.
As You Like it directed by Charles Kent and adapted by Margaret Birch. Rose Coghlan is Rosalind.
Radio play written by Wilfrid Walter and produced by Jan Bussell. In all probability a parody of Hamlet.
Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuyler, New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday and composer Michelle Assay have looked at the murdering husband and wife of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Chris...
Radio broadcast. Professor Nandini Das explores how the life and works of Robert Greene can offer us new insight into what English theatre might have been, beyond the shadow of Shakespeare. Controbutors...
A televised extract of the play produced by Jan Bussell which shows Bottom and his ‘theatre company’ staging the ‘lamentable comedy’ of Pyramus and Thisbe.
Detective drama written by Olwen Wymark and Barbara Clegg. Landscape gardener-cum-detective Jim Thackeray needs to combine his skills when a murder takes place in the Shakespeare-themed garden he has...
Radio drama. A reworking of Shakespeare’s Hamlet set in contemporary Denmark in the style of a Scandi Noir. This version interweaves a police investigation led by detective Eva Holm into the suspicious...
Video recording of Bernard Hopkins’ 1989 production of Love’s Labour’s Lost for the Young Company at Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. David New is the King of Navarre and Steve Yorke plays...
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