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Chat show/comedy series. This episode includes a routine where Al Murray (in his comic guise as ‘The Pub Landlord’) imagined what things would be like if England was in Spain and had Spain’s climate....
Feature film. A romantic period comedy which asks what would have happened had William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes loved the same woman. Leonor de Vibero (Anaya), an aspiring actress, heads for Spain...
Feature film. French/Spanish version of The Taming of the Shrew set in 16th-century Gandia.
Melodrama about a troubled Osaka teenager who, following the death of his father, begins to see himself as Hamlet when an enigmatic uncle takes charge of his dysfunctional family,
Adventure comedy. Bill Shakespeare dreams of becoming a playwright but his wife Anne Hathaway wants him to provide for his brood. Unpeturbed, Bill packs his knapsack and heads to the capital, where he...
Musical. A loose re-working of Romeo and Juliet set in the streets of Barcelona where a quarrel erupts between two warring gypsy families. Probably building on the success of WEST SIDE STORY the film...
Writer and diplomat Salvador de Madariaga reads extracts from his Spanish translation of Hamlet and adds a commentary.
Feature film version of the play. Ponderous, under-resourced film presented as an epic whose poor reviews prevented its wide distribution.
Film about the life and career of Alicia Alonso from childhood to her 90th birthday celebration in 2010, interspersed with performance footage and photographs. The extracts from dances include ‘Shakespeare...
A DVD of Robert Wilson’s video work THE DEATH OF KING LEAR. The production incorporates William Carlos Williams’ poem ‘The Last Words of my English Grandmother’, and John Gielgud reciting from King...
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