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A televised recording of Michael Croft’s modern dress production of Shakespeare’s play at the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon. Performed by the National Youth Theatre company with its original jazz score.
Comedy sketch show. The episode includes a sketch in which would-be child actor Steve (Walliams) and his ambitious mother Sandra (Lucas) infiltrate the offices of the Royal Shakespeare Company and demand of...
Independent short. Shakespeare, as a boy, worries about the onset of puberty and consults his parents about the facts of life. The film’s dialogue is spoken in pseudo-Elizabethan blank verse and William is...
Excerpts from II i of A Winter’s Tale; From Act II scene 1 beginning "Take the boy..." and ending ""...give’t me in mine ear". Ellen Terry plays all parts.
Short drama by Francesca Martinez in response to Shakespeare’s sonnet no. 61. Music by Nina Whiteman. Maxine Peake reads "Is it thy will, thy image should keep open/My heavy eyelids to the weary night?".
A documentary about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in...
A film based on the Broadway production by Max Reinhardt. A combination of German expressionism and Hollywood realism. Hal Mohr’s cinematography is ‘astonishing, a surreal visual fantasy of dancing...
BBC screen adaptation by John Caird which compresses both parts of Henry IV into a three-hour television drama focusing on the father/son relationships in the plays.
Purcell’s opera based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Orchestra and Chorus of the English National Opera are conducted by Nicolas Kok. Directed for stage by David Poutney, choreographed...
Feature film. King Shahdov (Chaplin) is a deposed monarch exiled in New York without money. He becomes involved with Ann Kay (Addams) who hosts a television show, and soon becomes a celebrity. Befriending a...
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