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2010. GB. DVD. Illuminations/Robert Fox. 117 minutes. Price: £17.99 About the Author: Dr Mark Taylor-Batty is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds. His publications include Roger...
Comedy short. An unemployed actor offers a stagestruck young woman and her family acting lessons in exchange for free board and lodging. They attempt a performance of Othello at the town hall which turns out...
A three-actor adaptation by the Independent Eye (actor/playwright/designers Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, plus Camilla Schade when they perform Macbeth). The actors, in heavy makeup, can speak in...
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....
Radio broadcast. According to the Radio Times programme information, this duologue pays tribute to Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, "commemorating two famous men, St. George and Shakespeare". The...
First of a new fortnightly theatrical review magazine commissioned for radio by the BBC Light Programme. The theatre star invited to perform his favourite part for this episode is Shakespeare actor Donald...
An advertisement for Heinz Tomato Ketchup. An actor playing Hamlet in a modernised version of Elizabethan dress holds Yorick’s skull and delivers the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy in a portentous and...
In this episode of the radio series the Shakespearean actor, director and scholar Harley Granville-Barker explains why (in his opinion) Shakespeare cannot be interpreted on the screen, and can be interpreted...
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...
Made-for-television film. Acclaimed recreation of the meeting between actress Coral Browne and British spy and defector Guy Burgess, in Moscow in 1958. The initial meeting took place in a theatre, where...
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