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Shaking Up Shakespeare (1932 Radio)

Broadcast as part of a mixed variety radio programme, this appears to have been an all-male variety sketch based on Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Written by Con West, this item is presented by John...

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King Real and the Hoodlums (1983 Film, Video)

Director

John Fox; Paul Haywood

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...

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Tempest, The (Film)

Director

Carmella Cardina

Producer

Carmella Cardina

Independent feature film re-working The Tempest. ‘Prospero is homeless and plotting revenge against his thieving brother Antonio. Antonio’s conniving has made him a billionaire several times over and...

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H4 (2014 Film)

Director

Paul Quinn

Producer

Art Olmos; Mark Schwartz; Abina Dodeva; Danny Green; Gil Bindelglas; Heather Ankeny

Independent feature which translates the Henry IV plays to contemporary Los Angeles to explore political struggles in the black community. Harry Lennix is King Henry.

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Reign of King Edward III, The (1956 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Apocrypha

Producer

Peter Watts

Radio adaptation of the anonymous chronicle-history of The Reign of King Edward III (1569) attributed to Shakespeare by publishers Rogers and Ley in 1656. Adapted and produced by Peter Watts with Valentine...

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Hamlet (1956 Television)

Director

Peter Brook

Television production of Hamlet, heavily abridged. Directed by Peter Brook with Paul Scofield as Hamlet. The Phoenix Theatre, London stage production went out live from a studio; it was thought that such a...

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