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Television documentary examining John Everett Millais’ painting ‘Ophelia’ hanging in the Tate Britain, London. Presented by Edwin Mullins.
Experimental short. Portrait inspired by John Everett Millais’ painting of Ophelia. Narrated by Elizabeth Reizner.
Feature film. London in the 1660s, and a declaration from King Charles II (Rupert Everett) legalising female actors puts the girl-boy specialist Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) out of a job. His former dresser...
As a teacher tries to enthuse a passion for Shakespeare in her 12-year-old pupils, she’s unaware of an ally at work. Visible only to one of her students, Maeve, Puck shows the young students the greatness...
Ken Campbell’s version of Macbeth directed by Campbell, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Lorna Bennett and spoken in Pidgin English (Wol Wantok). Performed by 2nd year students at the London Academy of Music and...
Video recording of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s 2013 touring production of King Lear directed by Bill Buckhurst with Joseph Marcell in the title role.
Documentary. Al Pacino, while in the process of staging a production of Richard III, explores in the film how the play took shape and tries to understand Shakespeare’s intention for it. He canvasses the...
Feature film described by some as a cross between The Tempest and The Phantom of the Opera. A grotesquely disfigured harpooner named Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in...
Filmed entirely in the Round House, London, where the play had previously been staged. Intense and claustrophic, the film is notable for its extensive use of close-ups, lines delivered in rasping voice-over,...
Video recording of the Shakespeare Globe Theatre’s 2015 staging of Richard II directed by Simon Godwin with Charles Edwards in the title role.
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