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Radio broadcast. Theatre designer Albert Rutherston, who has worked on the set and costume design for Granville Barker’s production of The Winter’s Tale (1912), describes how he would go about setting...
Advertisement for Heinz Tomato Ketchup. A curtain with an image of the sauce label rises on the Heinz Theatre Company. A bottle of ketchup is adorned with a blond curly wig and a pink hat with a feather....
Portrait written by Edith Sitwell of would-be-actor and English eccentric Robert ‘Romeo’ Coates, also known as Cock-a-doodle-doo Coates. Son of a West Indian millionaire, Coates arrived in England with...
Series of comedy playlets starring Jimmy Edwards, with June Whitfield and Ronnie Barker. This episode parodied The SPREAD OF THE EAGLE BBC series. Set in Roman Britain the play incorporated cod Shakespearean...
Fiction comedy short. When a staging of Hamlet fails the manager insists on putting on a revised version and persuades a wealthy girl to play Ophelia. In the performance the Ghost does a song and dance...
Television documentary. When the RSC’s production on The Winter’s Tale opened in Stratford, an ITV outside broadcast crew was at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre to record the night and talk to people...
BBC television arts series. Programme, in two parts, about the ideas of the English scene designer, producer and actor Edward Gordon Craig. The first part is a dialogue between Craig (spoken by Donald...
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