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Podcast. Professor Tiffany Stern gives a short talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in Elizabethan England. Stern talks of fools, prompting and cues.
Radio programme on the speaking of Shakespeare’s verse. Samantha Bond examines whether there is a ‘right way’ of speaking Shakespeare’s dramatic verse. Besides consulting Judi Dench, she interviews...
Radio programme celebrating the four hundreth anniversary of the performance of King Lear, the new play offered to King James I and his guests at Whitehall Palace on Boxing Day 1606. Presenter Francine Stock...
Feature film comedy concerning a housemaid who impersonates a leading lady in a Broadway production and woos the producer. While she is dusting she acts out lines from Romeo and Juliet.
The story of how, 400 years ago, two actors and friends of William Shakespeare took on the task of saving his work for posterity in one book, the First Folio. Interviewees include Professor Emma Smith,...
2-disc CD. Alan Cumming delivers a virtuoso performance playing every role in the National Theatre of Scotland’s presentation of Macbeth. This reimagining is set in a psychiatric unit in which Cumming is...
American television satirical animation series. When the Simpsons family travels to New York, Marge takes daughter Lisa to see a Shakespeare in the Park production of Romeo and Juliet. When it’s cancelled,...
Video recording of the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival’s 2015 staging of Love’s Labour’s Lost directed by John Caird. Ruby Joy is the Princess of France and Mike Shara is Berowne.
Stage recording of Nick Hutchison’s 2005 staging of Much Ado About Nothing with Kate Eastwood Norris and P.J. Sosko as Beatrice and Benedick. Videotaped for WAPAVA by George Karseboom.
Feature film. Fictionalised telling of the true story of the 1936 Orson Welles production of Macbeth in Harlem with an all-Black cast, the action relocated to the 19th century in a country reminiscent of...
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