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Documentary short which accompanied the U.S. broadcast of FALSTAFF (Unitel, 13/12/1985). It compares the treatment of The Merry Wives of Windsor by Verdi and Orson Welles, the former represented by clips...
Radio drama. A version of Macbeth written by John Wells and reduced to 13 minutes. The play was written for the Edinburgh Festival and the action, takes place in a BBC studio in Edinburgh in front of a...
Verdi’s Falstaff staged and directed by Götz Friedrich. The Wiener Philharmoniker is conducted by Sir George Solti with Gabriel Bacquier as Falstaff.
American television satirical animation series. In this episode Homer and the family visit London. Walking past a theatre, they encounter Ian McKellen, currently appearing in Macbeth. Unaware of the...
Western feature film. A cattle rancher (Wayne) finds himself wrangling with both incoming settlers and his headstrong wife, Katherine (Maureen O’Hara). In part a tribute to THE QUIET MAN but closer in...
Documentary telling the story of the founding of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival by Stratford-born journalist Tom Patterson. Patterson got together a committee of local people and invited Tyrone Guthrie...
Musical short. Created as a tie-in for Dieterle and Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) the film imagines a hybrid between Shakespeare and swing music. An assistant director is told to read all...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the RSC’s production of Ionesco’s play directed by Silviu Purcarete and adapted by Tanya Ronder. David Troughton is Macbett. Two generals, Macbett and...
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