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Recording of Measure For Measure by the Marlowe Dramatic Society directed by George Rylands. Toby Robertson is the Duke of Vienna and Janette Richer Isabella.
Terry Hands, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is interviewed about his career, with particular reference to the financial difficulties which had dogged the Company in years prior to the...
A recording of Simon Callow’s one-man show about the life and work of Shakespeare.
Comedy short. An unemployed actor offers a stagestruck young woman and her family acting lessons in exchange for free board and lodging. They attempt a performance of Othello at the town hall which turns out...
A talk by director Pippo Delbono prior to his company’s visit to the Swan Theatre in February 2007 with Henry V, Delbono talks about the plays of Shakespeare, Pasolini and Sarah Kane.
Feature propaganda film and a wartime sequel to The SCARLET PIMPERNEL (d. Harold Young, 1934) also starring Leslie Howard. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, an English archaeologist...
Radio broadcast. A theatrical ‘preview’ of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing which was subsequently staged at the New Theater, London; the transmitted excerpt (IV i) stars Henry Ainley as Benedick...
Television arts documentary. Prior to the opening of Franco Zeffirelli’s Italian production of Hamlet at the National Theatre, London, Zeffirelli is seen directing the scene between Hamlet and Gertrude...
Radio broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The Metropolitan Opera and Chorus is conducted by James Levine. Bryn Terfel is Falstaff.
War film melodrama on the theme of heroism and celebration of empire based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. Henry Faversham, son of a war hero, resigns his military commission just before his company is to...
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