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American comedy short. Hoping to attract customers to Spanky McFarland’s barnyard production of Romeo and Juliet, star performer Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer proposes a ‘pay as you exit’ policy: If the...
An adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew set in the countryside of contemporary Suffolk, aiming to retain the primacy of the text while emphasising entertainment, immediacy and modernity.
Sitcom about a group of over-achieving honours students at Manhattan high school. In this episode their laid-back teacher (Hesseman) has to confront negative comments after inviting the class to review his...
Television variety and talent show for children. Each programme in this series was staged within a single fairy tale setting; in this episode the setting is Sherwood Forest. Bobby Bennett is Robin Hood, Sue...
The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own. Martin Jarvis is narrator.
Video recording of Dominic Cooke’s 2011 production of The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre, London with Lenny Henry as Antipholus of Syracuse and Chris Jarman as Antipholus of Ephesus.
Play directed by Dickon Reed for the BBC World Service. Maxine Audley is the Countess and Robert Stephens is Paroles.
Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet danced by the American Ballet Theatre with Natalia Makarova and Kevin McKenzie in the title roles. Jack Everly conducts the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra. Directed...
Six-part mystery serial, written and adapted for broadcasting by Simon Brett and featuring the character of Charles Paris (Francis Matthews), actor and unwilling amateur detective. In this second episode...
A video recording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s all-female 2011 production of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Jeremy Herrin with Eve Best as Beatrice and Charles Edwards as Benedick.
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