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Feature film. An Egyptian version of Romeo and Juliet. Selim takes the substance of Shakespeare’s play and reworks it as a contemporary story of Egyptian life.
A performance of King Lear performed at the National Theatre of Egypt in 2002 with Yehia El-Fakharani (Yahya El-Fakharany) in the title role. Theatre direction: Ahmed Abdel Halim. Film direction: Jamal Abdel...
Feature film. A contemporary re-working of The Taming of the Shrew. A handsome vet finds it necessary to tame a wild woman.
Two programmes relating to the Open University course AA306: Shakespeare: Text and Performance. 1) Designing Rome and Egypt: examines the contribution of sets and costumes to an interpretation of a play....
Actress Laila Robins, reflects on her experiences of engaging with Shakespeare’s texts and the performance of Antony and Cleopatra
A video recording of the play. A version of Hamlet set in contemporary Cairo.
Gregory Doran talks to Heather Neill about his 2006 production of Antony and Cleopatra for the Royal Shakespeare Company, his first production in the Complete Works Festival. He speaks of the epic and...
The last of 4 programmes of music from Handel’s dramatic works focuses on Act 1 of Handel’s Italian opera Julius Caesar, prepared for broadcasting by Anthony Lewis who also conducts the Royal...
Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power. Now he has neglected his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Torn between...
The thirty-first in a weekly live stream project by Rob Myles to present all of Shakespeare’s plays in the order in which it is thought they were originally written. Using the Zoom video conferencing...
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