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This workshop, based on Act II iii, shows how a group of experienced actors, with relatively little input from a director, set about developing a strategy to preserve the comic tone of the scene, while not...
Feature film inspired by Measure for Measure and the action moving from Vienna to contemporary Lahore. The director addresses through the text of Shakespeare’s play issues relevant to contemporary...
Feature film telling of the prejudices and Islam-phobia which is still deep-rooted among some sections of immigrant Indians in London. The director sees Life Goes On as a modern retelling of King Lear, for...
Radio broadcasts of an extract from Shakespeare’s King Henry (Act IV), with Esmond Knight in the title role.
Documentary made for schools. Compares and contrasts different styles and type of humour through the ages. Explains the elements of comedy used by Shakespeare including the use of mischief, power of the...
Low-budget independent film. The directors enlist a multiracial group of 17 young people from South London to do a workshop on The Tempest. During rehearsals the teenagers comment on the negative attention...
Advertisement for Bell Atlantic. Theatre-goers are going to see James Earl Jones as Othello. As they take their seats Othello is seen on stage, back to the audience, wearing a large Darth Vader-like cloak....
Television documentary first shown on German television. A record of the filming of Welles’ OTHELLO. The film is re-edited to make the points Welles wishes to make while discussing it. Also included is a...
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