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News programme. Includes a two-minute report on the work of the English Shakespeare Company actors helping with the teaching of Shakespeare to students at Wakefield Comprehensive in West Yorkshire. The...
A promotional spot for Spike TV, ‘the first network for men’ US cable channel. Romeo and Juliet in costume in the death scene’. Juliet kills herself with a dagger, the tagline is ‘Dan hates...
A week of programmes celebrating the theatre’s contribution to cultural life. Continuing from SEE A SHOW, Frances Barber and Clive Owen perform an extract from Macbeth.
A puppet William Shakespeare, made using three-dimensional model animation techniques, performs his complete works before a sceptical Peter Hall figure. Without dialogue. Notable for the detailed perception...
Television programme. A performance of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman, is interwoven with animated characters from...
A week of programmes celebrating the theatre’s contribution to cultural life. Actor, writer and director Steven Berkoff discusses performances and presents characters from his plays - Decadence, East,...
Television documentary first shown on the digital Community Channel. Documentary recording the life of Ira Aldridge, a 19th-century black American Shakespearean actor who also worked in Britain, taking his...
The West Indian historian C L R James talks about King Lear and why Shakespeare, ‘the most political writer that Britain has ever seen in regard to the creative arts’, was ‘no racist’. He quotes...
A week of programmes celebrating the theatre’s contribution to cultural life. Frances Barber, Kathy Burke, Brian Cox and Clive Owen star in extracts from the plays Angels in America, The Maids, Happy Days,...
Series on the British monarchy written and presented by David Starkey. This episode looks at kings from Richard II to Henry VI that were the subject of Shakespeare’s plays. Starkey examines their reigns...
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