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Seventh of twelve programmes in which all Shakespeare sonnets are recited by various actors. The programme is introduced by Rayner Heppenstall. Michael Redgrave reads Sonnets 59 to 77.
A musical grotesquerie based on the legend of King Lear. King Real lives in a nuclear submobile in which outrageous and horrific scenes of black comedy build up. A power struggle between the King and his...
Television production of Macbeth directed by Maryna Broniewska.
Fiction short which shows Shakespeare suffering from writer’s block while planning the assassination scene in Julius Caesar. He falls asleep in his study and dreams of the scene he is to write. Shakespeare...
An excerpt showing scenes from the Old Vic Theatre Company production of Cymbeline with an introduction by British theatre actress Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976).
Children’s television series. Simon Cates, a teenage genius, has control the Visicron, a machine which has the power to bring famous faces from the past forward in time for 36 hours. During that short...
Radio broadcast that focuses on the character of Jaques in As You Like It. Produced by Mary Hope Allen with commentary by Herbert Farjeon. No cast information available (6/2008).
Radio broadcast that focuses on the character of Caliban in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Produced by Mary Hope Allen with commentary by Herbert Farjeon. With Herbert Lomas as Caliban.
Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. Among the various stage plays that he praises for their comic qualities, he discusses J. M. Barrie’s ‘Rosalind’. A "comedy of...
Five Truths is a video installation by stage director Katie Mitchell exhibited at London’s V&A Museum in 2011. It presents the same 10-minute scene - Ophelia’s mad ramblings and subsequent death, all...
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