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Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. Includes a 7-minute report on a strange gap in the BBC Television Shakespeare series: the 1978 production of Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Donald...
Video recording of Robin Phillips’ 1977 production of As You Like It for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Maggie Smith is Rosalind.
Radio play written by John Arden. Set in the years leading to the English Civil War it concerns a 17th-century playwright in the tradition of Shakespeare, Backhouse (David Calder),and a mysterious woman...
Television sketch. Fourth of four 15-minute installments featuring German actor Heinz Rühmann as a taxi driver in different countries. In the Shakespeare episode an American couple intends to visit the...
Televised version of the play by Giorgio Strehler directed for television by Carlo Battistoni.
Video recording of Robin Phillips’ 1977 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Maggie Smith doubles as Hippolyta and Titania and assumes the role of...
37-disc boxed set containing all productions from the BBC Television Shakespeare series from 1978 to 1985.
A German television production of Richard III directed by Ingrid Fausak and staged by Manfred Wekwerth. Hilmar Thate is Richard.
Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate reviews Fay Compton’s career on the English stage. The talk is illustrated with extracts from gramophone records featuring Compton as Ophelia and Henry Oscar as...
Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings...
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