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Radio crime drama series featuring the character Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris. In this episode there is a Hamlet riff when Templar’s friend Desmond says that the last murder of interest to him...
Feature film set in London’s Soho. A crime reporter and writer of thrillers captures a silk stocking murderer. George Hayes provides a cameo of an insane actor who keeps effigies of theatre critics...
Feature film. Black comedy, the sub-plot offering a loose adaptation of Hamlet. Tells the story of a university graduate, Valya (Chursin) who impersonates victims in crime-scene reconstructions. Valya feels...
Podcast. Host Michael Wright speaks to Philip Matthews about the important role played by crime novelist Ngaio Marsh in producing and directing Shakespeare productions in Christchurch, New Zealand from the...
Podcast. Thomas Jones talks to Charles Nicholl about the craze in the 1590s for plays representing real-life murder on the London stage, from the first known example, Arden of Faversham, to the genre’s...
Imprisoned for life in a maximum security facility, a group of inmates deploy the words of Shakespeare to reflect on their existence.
Comedy/crime feature film with songs claiming inspiration from Hamlet. A landowner is accused of murder and the device of staging a play is employed whereby Kishore, disguised as an Arab, puts together a...
Italian crime film based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
STAR CROSS’D is poet, writer and illustrator Laura Dockrill’s contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet. The film is set on a windswept English beach, where ‘two houses, both alike in common crime’ wage...
Feature film. A black comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Hamlet. Valya, a university graduate, makes a living impersonating victims in crime-scene reconstructions. He is also haunted by the ghost of...
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