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BBC television comedy sletch show. This episode Includes a c3 minute sketch in which Harry Secombe plays the gravedigger to Julian Orchard’s Hamlet. While Hamlet makes his speech he is interrupted by...
Television advertisement for Barclay’s Bank made as part of the company’s Fluent in Finance campaign. Samuel L. Jackson recites some lines, an approximation of The Comedy of Errors (I, ii l260) `Upon my...
Television comedy drama. A Hollywood film star is playing the lead in a New York stage production of Hamlet. While rehearsing the ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy he is stabbed in the neck with a quill. It...
Television recording of the ‘circus’ production performed live at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Centre, New York City in June 1987. This vaudeville production included circus acts from the Flying...
Television comedy sketch and music show. In one 4-minute sketch Lulu as Anne Hathaway and Les Dawson as Shakespeare enact a sketch which concludes with them singing ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ from Kiss...
A televised adaptation of Clifford Williams’ Royal Shakespeare Company stage production that was still running at the Aldwych Theatre when it was broadcast. Donald Sinden is the Duke of Ephesus, Ian...
Television comedy show hosted by Arthur Askey. This edition includes a running gag where Askey wants to prove himself a serious actor and quotes the ‘quality of mercy’ speech from The Merchant of Venice...
Television production with Michael Kitchen and Roger Daltrey doubling the roles of Antipholus and Dromio respectively. The ‘commedia dell arte style is underscored by the integration of mimes into the play.
Television comedy sketch series written by Victoria Wood. In the two-minute skit ‘Giving Notes’ Julie Walters, as director Alma, gives notes from the stage to an unseen group of amateur actors - ‘But I...
Television comedy series. This episode includes a sketch, written by aspiring playwright, Ernie Wise for Glenda Jackson, the guest star. Shows an encounter between Cleopatra, Caesar and Antony with a dubious...
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