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Feature film. A comic drama in which William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young writer who is struggling financially and, envious of a rival, meets an aspiring actress who dresses as a boy to work in...
Feature film. A young Hungarian actress (Coco König) becomes the carer of famously difficult stage actor Sir Michael Gifford (Brian Cox), who is in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Their...
Fiction short. Matt is a young Australian builder living in modern-day Sydney. He watches television while his girlfriend, Jess, an attractive young actress, fights for his attention. He has promised to...
Feature film based on the play by Lepage and Brassard and described by the author as a ‘metaphysical detective story’. The story revolves around the unsolved murder of a woman several years previously. A...
Hindi feature film. The story of Violet Stoneham, an ageing Anglo-Indian schoolteacher who lives in a dingy apartment in Calcutta and teaches Shakespeare. Two young lovers walk into her life one Christmas...
Feature film based on the life of the eighteenth-century actress Peg Woffington. Born in Dublin, she came to London and became a famous actress under David Garrick’s guidance. She suffered from a weak...
A young Argentine theatre director, Camila, leaves Buenos Aires to take up an artists residency in New York. As she undertakes a Spanish translation of Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" she...
Feature film. B-movie thriller in which a modernised Hamlet is set in Florida and to rock music. Hamlet is a young man who returns home to discover that his father was murdered nine months previously. Based...
Feature film. Gilbert Valence (Piccoli) is an aging actor who is in the prime of his career, enjoying prominent roles in both theatre and film. During a performance of Ionesco’s Exit the King , with...
Version, intended for television, of Welles’ stage production of his play based on Melville’s novel. Filmed for three weeks but filming subsequently abandoned after c75 minutes had been shot. It was...
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