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Theatre in Poland. Includes an excerpt from Wroclaw Mime Theatre’s Hamlet.
A wordless adaptation of Hamlet in 14 scenes devised by Paata Tsikurishvili, incorporating mime, music and dance. Videotaped for the WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.
Series of arts programmes featuring the work of avant garde artists. In this episode, in a solo performance piece entitled ‘Stuff As Dreams Are Made On’ , Fred Curchack puts on a variety of masks and...
Slide set. A history from primitive mime and dance through to Victorian developments. Includes a section on Shakespeare and the Globe.
Actors and directors explore scenes from Macbeth, including scenes performed in Wapping Hydraulic Pumping Station. The film uses elements of the play as a springboard for telling stories without using words,...
Drama critic Walter Kerr comments on excerpts from five plays performed by professional actors. He discusses characteristics unique to the live dramatic form by comparing these scenes with segments of film....
Short. Relates the growing love between an student oboist and a beautiful girl who studies at a circus theatre for deaf mutes. In one scene the boy watches the girl as the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet...
Television production with Michael Kitchen and Roger Daltrey doubling the roles of Antipholus and Dromio respectively. The ‘commedia dell arte style is underscored by the integration of mimes into the play.
A version of the play for children, recorded in performance onstage, and performed by a cast composed largely of children. The story is told through dance, mime, song and spoken selections from the play.
US family sitcom of the Cosby-type about a beleaguered father. In this episode Michael steps in as director of Kady’s kindergarden play, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. He allows the children to make any...
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