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Television programme in a series on human consciousness. Psychologist Nicholas Humphrey discusses why we care about fictional characters, using as illustration a performance from Hamlet (III iv). During the...
Shows how a repertory company at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, mounted a production of Romeo and Juliet in five weeks. Traces the progress of the production from ideas to drawings, then into the workshop...
Arts and media programme presented by Sarah Dunant. Includes an item (16 mins) on Russian theatre director Yuri Lyubimov rehearsing Hamlet with English actors at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester. Lyubimov...
Scenes from Hamlet are performed for radio by John Barrymore and members of his company, from the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London.
Documentary. Jennings’ deeply felt vision of life in Britain during the final year of World War II as lived by four representative characters - an engine driver, a farmer, a miner and an injured fighter...
Channel Four early evening news item. Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Dalton in rehearsal at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London (the production had a pre-London run season at the Mold’s Theatr, Clwyd)....
Trailer for HENRY V (1944). Laurence Olivier is seen seated at Denham Studios in 1944. He reads a letter he has written to Filippo Del Giudice telling him of the completion of the film. There follows a...
Steven Berkoff, in a one-man show, explores and analyses some of Shakespeare’s most villainous characters - Iago, the Macbeths, Shylock, Richard III; characters who are inherently evil, others whose...
Video recording using a single camera of a performance of King Lear, directed by Helena Kaut-Howson, and performed by the Young Vic/IP Productions at the Young Vic theatre, London, in August 1997. The...
One-act play by J. M. Barrie adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe. Set in pre-1920 England. 23-year old Charles Roche from Oxford falls in love with a charming actress. When he eventually tracks her...
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