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US late night talk/variety show hosted by Johnny Carson. In this episode Charles Nelson Reilly recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not’ soliloquy. An actress had dismissed him as he tried to join the...
US late-night talk/variety show. In this episode (3 minute sketch) Carson, dressed in Renaissance garb, imagines Shakespeare as written for television and plays Hamlet, reciting, "To be or not to be" and...
Radio drama. In the preamble to a memory play about silk replacing beaver as a material for making hats, Kit Carson’s friend Doc mentions that his eyes are getting weak, which he blames on excessive...
Theatre designer Shelagh Keegan talks to Christie Carson. Keegan talks about her approach to design (starting with copious notes from the text), her work with David Thacker, the collaborative process,...
Theatre designer Sally Jacobs talks to Christie Carson. Jacobs reflects on working with Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the impact of the ‘white box’, and with John Barton on a production...
Christie Carson interviews theatre designer Jenny Tiramani. Tirimani speaks of the influence of seeing local amateur productions as a child. She talks of her working with Ultz, John McGrath and Mark Rylance...
Christie Carson interviews Chris Dyer about stage design. Dyer is Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Senior Lecturer in Design for Performance at Central Saint Martins College of Art and...
Radio programme featuring extracts from plays in current production at London’s theatres. In this episode, scenes from Robert Atkins’s production of Shakespeare’s comedy for the Ring theatre, London,...
A series of short vignettes in which six contemporary storytellers offer their interpretations of the word ‘fire’. Playwright Christopher Durang creates a mini-sitcom on the woes of inactivity;...
Live audio recording of John Barton’s 1979 staging of the play for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Carmen du Sautoy is the Princess of France and Jane Lapotaire is Rosaline.