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Podcast. The double bill considered in this edition by hosts Adam and Thomas is Andrzej Bartkowiak’s reworking of Romeo and Juliet as an action movie, ROMEO MUST DIE (2000), and Akira Kurosawa’s Macbeth...
Radio commercial for Specsavers, the biggest optical retailer in the UK. The three witches, reciting lines from the witches spell in Macbeth IV i ("Double, double toil and trouble") inform the approaching...
Fiction short. Moving Picture World notes ‘This single reel works up so entertainingly that the story could well be carried through a second reel. Mignon Anderson plays the double part of a country and...
Radio play about Shakespeare’s family written by Marjorie Rowling. Set in the sitting-room of John Shakespeare’s house, the play takes place on the evening of November 27, 1582.
Cold war spy thriller based on the novel Call for the Dead by John Le Carre, about espionage in London. Includes Edward’s death scene (specially staged for the film) of a Royal Shakespeare Company...
Video recording of Richard Monette’s production of The Comedy of Errors for the 1989 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Keith Dinicol and Geordie Johnson double the roles of the Dromios and the...
Educational videotape. A teacher and pupil travel back in time to 1609 to interview Shakespeare over lunch at the Mermaid Tavern. They question him about the writing and performance of his plays - including...
Radio broadcast. Presenter Jane Little interviews the Jewish playwright Julia Pascal about her adaptation of The Merchant of Venice at the Arcola Theatre in London. In Pascal’s version, holocaust survivor...
Fiction film. Ball (op cit) writes (p.168). ‘All the camera work was done out of doors, and the scenery is lovely and charmingly rustic. Remarkably for its period, the photography is technically advanced,...
Television murder mystery series set in 1895 Toronto exploring the world of William Murdoch, a handsome young detective who uses radical forensic techniques, such as fingerprinting and trace evidence, to...
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