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A personal introduction to the play and its characters by Frances de la Tour, who played Helena in the 1970 Peter Brook production for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 production of Antony and Cleopatra. Directed by Steven Pimlott with Alan Bates as Antony and Frances de la Tour as...
Radio broadcast. Presenter Sue MacGregor looks at how Peter Brook’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1970 heralded a radical shift in productions of...
Television anthology arts series. Alan Yentob presents a documentary about three actors who are preparing to play Hamlet. Welsh actor Wayne Cater is directed by Michael Bogdanov for the Wales Theatre...
Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. Director and members of cast discuss the 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream....
Actors who have played Hamlet discuss why they perceive the role as a benchmark in their careers. The programme includes stills and film extracts from performances by Olivier, Richard Burton and Mel Gibson.
Live sound recording of David Jones’ 1967 production of As You Like It with Dorothy Tutin as Rosalind and Michael Williams as Orlando.
Live sound recording of Trevor Nunn’s 1967 production of The Taming of the Shrew with Michael Williams as Petruchio and Janet Suzman as Katharina.
Video recording of Jonathan Miller’s 1989 production of King Lear for the Old Vic with Eric Porter in the title role.
A live sound recording of Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Alan Howard as Theseus/Oberon and Sara Kestelman as Hippolyta/Titania.