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A modern version of the Romeo and Juliet story, here between a rich white businessman and his black cleaning woman.
A three-part series which spoofs Shakespeare’s plays in a modern setting. The first episode series includes the sketches ‘Taming of the Bitch’ - a marriage counsellor helps a young couple overcome...
Independent short. A young child raises others from the cemetery to perform Macbeth one last time. In.a North London cemetery an eclectic group of souls gather to perform a short version of Shakespeare’s...
US television sitcom starring Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two orphaned children from Harlem who are taken in by rich Park Avenue businessman Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) and...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What exactly counts as a Shakespeare adaptation? And why bother in the first place? The podcast talks to three writers who have wrestled with these questions....
Feature film comedy. A businessman (Connors), faced with an income tax demand of $500,000, decides to invest in a deliberately bad movie. He employs a has-been French actor (Chevalier) and a glamorous,...
Television detective series. On a work trip to London to learn the techniques of the British police, Columbo becomes involved in the murder of Roger Haversham. Haversham is a rich businessman financing the...
Feature film. Yvan Lesurf, son of a wealthy businessman, broods over his father’s death and his mother’s hasty remarriage to his uncle, Adrien. Lucie loves him, despite the disapproval of her father,...
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