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Fiction short. An allegory on ‘coming out’ set in working-class Dublin. A son comes home to his family to find his father repairing the car, and his mother in the kitchen cooking as usual. As he...
Feature film loosely based on Hamlet. Omeleto, the son of a rich farmer, returns home after his father’s death and is unhappy to find his mother married to his uncle. He is love with a poor black girl,...
Detective series. Chief Inspector Charles Rose of Scotland Yard, now retired, revisits one of his old cases when the son of a celebrated archaeologist dies in an apparent car accident. His father had been...
Feature film comedy. Adam Sandler stars in the title role about a 27 year-old slacker who must go back to school in order to take over his father’s company. In response to his father’s tirade at his...
The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play’s nostalgia, drawing on biographical criticism and the religious and political history of early modern England.
Audio podcast. Episode six of a radio serialisation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Adapted by Catherine Eaton, directed and rendered into modern English verse by Tracy Young. Part of the ‘Play On...
Feature film western. The story concerns Matt Devereaux (Tracy), a cattle baron who in his brutal ambition to build a ranching empire tyrannises his three eldest sons - Ben, Denny and Mike. Only Joe, his son...
Fiction short. "A son, lost in the world and pining for truth, looks for answers to life’s biggest questions from his dead father. This is a modern and intimate take on Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, ‘To...
Feature film. A version of Hamlet set in Tibet. Under the shadow of the Himalayas, the young prince Lhamoklodan learns of his father’s mysterious death and returns to the Kingdom Jiaobo. Troubled by his...
Radio broadcast. Timothy and Samuel West (father and son) talk to Michael Billington about working together, and look forward to the challenge of sharing the stage as Falstaff and Prince Hal in the English...
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