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Series which examines original texts, manuscripts, letters and diaries to uncover the story behind the creation of six classic books. Simon Russell Beale has long been fascinated with Shakespeare’s First...
Feature film re-locating Romeo and Juliet to modern Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Romeo is an Israeli Jew and Juliet a young Palestinian. The film doesn’t follow the text but alludes to many...
US interview show. Patrick Stewart talks to Charlie Rose about his title role in Rupert Goold’s production of Macbeth.
Unbroadcast sound material comprising a short self-reflexive spoof recorded privately by Mercury Theatre members in April, 1940, entitled Macbeth Follies. Welles recites from III ii ‘we have scotch’d the...
US interview show. Ian McKellen talks to Charlie Rose about his role as Lear in Trevor Nunn’s production for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Heather Neill talks to Paapa Essideu about tackling the role of Hamlet to critical acclaim in Simon Godwin’s 2016 staging for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Director Jonathan Munby talks to Heather Neill about his production of Antony and Cleopatra for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre with Clive Wood and Eve Best in the title roles.
Interview. The playwright Tanika Gupta talks to Judi Herman about serving as dramaturg to Shakespeare, working with Emma Rice on A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe. Recorded at the Theatre...
Poetry celebration of Shakespeare with focus on his sonnets and the use of poetry in his plays. Poetry readings by actors Ion Caramitru and Michael Pennington. The following sonnets and extracts were read at...
Heather Knight of the Museum of London Archaeology and Penny Tuerk of the Tower Theatre talk to Heather Neill about excavations of The Theatre, the first purpose-built venue in Elizabethan London, where...
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