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Slide set. Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the...
Nine-part television documentary series on arts and crafts in Britain. Episode 7 follows theatre designer Pamela Howard through her collaboration with director Ronald Eyre on a production of Othello for the...
Educational television programme broadcast by Wisconsin Public Television. Rehearsal scenes, in costume, under the direction of Eric Salmon. Salmon talks about the set design with the art director and...
Two programmes relating to the Open University course AA306: Shakespeare: Text and Performance. 1) Designing Rome and Egypt: examines the contribution of sets and costumes to an interpretation of a play....
Documentary. Follows four weeks of rehearsal as Derek Jacobi directs Kenneth Branagh in the lead role in the Renaissance Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet. The actors describe stage action and the...
Slide set. Photographs of William Poel’s productions, especially those which he mounted for the Elizabethan Stage Society between 1893 and 1905. Also illustrations showing both how Poel’s work was...
Shows how a repertory company at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, mounted a production of Romeo and Juliet in five weeks. Traces the progress of the production from ideas to drawings, then into the workshop...
Two new productions by New York City Opera. Each segment includes two arias performed by singers from the productions, interspersed with discussions with the singers, directors and set designers. The singers...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1994 production of Coriolanus. Directed by David Thacker with Toby Stephens as Coriolanus and Caroline Blakiston as Volumnia.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1990 production of The Comedy of Errors. Directed by Ian Judge with Desmond Barrit doubling as the Antipholus twins.