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Film which follows actor, producer and director John Houseman as he rehearses The Acting Company, the repertory company he established in 1972, in a production of King Lear. The actors are mainly graduates...
Film adaptation of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Jane Smiley, which is loosely based on King Lear but with a feminist slant. Larry (Robards) decides to give his daughters joint ownership of his...
Les Blank’s documentary about the making of Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO (1982). When FITZCARRALDO was first underway it starred Jason Robards as Fitzcarraldo and Mick Jagger as his sidekick Wilbur....
Live sound recording of King Lear by the English Stage Company directed by Max Stafford-Clark. Tom Wilkinson is Lear.
A performance of a low budget King Lear with Brian Blessed as Lear.
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the challenges and consolations of old age. An extract from Cymbeline ('Fear no more’) are read by actors Barbara Jefford and...
Murder/mystery detective drama series. An amateur production of Hamlet, in which his daughter plays Ophelia, gives DCI Barnaby a clue to the murderer. The story also has Hamlet parallels in that soon after...
A postmodern take on the Shakespeare play as dreamed by Marina, the young daughter of the protagonist. They and other immigrants live in the interstices of a complex ring of roads, leading to an apocalyptic...
Low budget vampire film made and performed by the comedy sketch troupe Eat, Drink and Be Larry. Hamlet is haunted by the possibility that his Uncle Claudio is a vampire who murdered Hamlet’s father in...
Video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2001 production of Hamlet directed for stage by Gale Edwards and videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor. Wallace Acton in the title role.
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