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Feature film comedy. A high school drama teacher (Coogan) tries to motivate his students and save his department by writing a politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
A largely fictionalised black comedy based on the activities of the eponymous grave robbers. In this version of events, one of the motivations for the criminal actions of William Burke (Simon Pegg) is his...
One of a series of educational videotapes discussing the performing arts. In this programme three professional actors demonstrate the role of clowns and fools in Shakespeare’s day by using monologues and...
Pre-school history series. Grandad Harvey takes Asher on a journey of discovery to find out what life was like for a child during Elizabethan times. Dressing up in magnificent Elizabethan costumes, they...
Series sponsored by the Ford Motor Company episodes alternating between variety, music and drama. In this episode hosted by Dave Garroway and showcasing ‘tomorrow’s entertainment stars’, the...
Independent short. 1967. A young student struggles to write a screenplay that will combine STAR WARS with SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.
Comic opera in three acts staged by Damiano Michieletto for the 2013 Salzburg Festival. Ambrogio Maestri is Falstaff and the Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus is conducted by Zubin Mehta. Karina Fibich directs...
US sitcom, created by Suzanne Martin, featuring three past-their-prime entertainment industry veterans from Los Angeles whose lives are changed when their ‘plane bound for Paris lands in Cleveland, Ohio....
French television drama. Sylvie, 35, lives and works in her parent’s farm, isolated in the mountains. The only entertainment after her long working days is a theatre class one night a week in a nearby...
Radio broadcast. A reading by Ian McDiarmid of James Shapiro’s book of the same title which is an account of the extraordinary year in which Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra....
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