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Newsfilm item. A royal visit to Stratford-upon-Avon. King Edward VII, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret visit Stratford-on-Avon for the first time. The royal party is greeted by Lord Iliffe and shown...
Television polemic. Russell Davies questions Laurence Olivier’s position as the pre-eminent Shakespearean actor, arguing that his performances are all show and no substance. This belief is compromised by...
A Shakespeare Recording Society with Anthony Quayle and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as the Macbeth.
Feature film. Adaptation by Boris Pasternak. Sometimes imaginative, sometimes stolid, the production takes every opportunity to get out of the studio. Sergei Bondarchuk is Othello.
A recording of the National Theatre production, directed by John Dexter, restyled somewhat for film, but retaining much of its ‘staginess’, Olivier doing little to adapt his towering and extravagant...
Special episode in a British sitcom created by Johnnie Mortimer about two feuding ex-business partners and neighbours Simon Peel (Donald Sinden) and Windsor Davies (Olive Smallbridge) broadcast at the end of...
Video recording of the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival’s 2014 staging of Antony and Cleopatra with Geraint Wyn Davies and Yanna McIntosh in the title roles.
Opera. Britten’s adaptation of the play introduced by Margaret Juntwait. Instyn Davies is Oberon and James Conlon conducts the New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra.
Live recording of Verdi’s opera with Anthony Michaels-Moore and Georgina Lukacs as the Macbeths. Edward Downes conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Radio play adapted by Tom Stoppard. Based on his original stage play, it re-tells Shakespeare’s Hamlet through the eyes of two of the play’s lesser characters. Rosencrantz is played by Danny Webb,...
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