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Brief documentary. David Tennant looks back on playing Hamlet in Greg Doran’s award-winning 2008 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He talks about his approach to the part, performing opposite...
Dame Janet Suzman looks back on her role as Joan of Arc in the BBC’s 1965 adaptations of Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses. Under the direction of John Barton and Peter Hall at the Royal Shakespeare...
Yaël Farber directs James McArdle as Macbeth and Saoirse Ronan as Lady Macbeth in the Almeida’s 2021 Olivier Award-nominated production about a couple’s spine-chilling quest for power. The 2023 TV...
Recording of a panel discussion held as part of the Aspen Ideas Festival. Brian Cox, the star of the TV drama series Succession, and Shakespeare Theatre Company artistic director Simon Godwin, discuss the...
Adventurous recording of Blanche Macintyre’s 2022 RSC production of Shakespeare’s play set in today’s world of saturated social media, starring Rosie Sheehy and Jamie Wilkes.
Broadcast of a stage recording of the 2016 Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Emma Rice, which privileges a fusion of music, comedy and dance. Ex-cabaret...
Concluding episode in a three-part docuseries on the life and work of William Shakespeare, combining interviews with drama vignettes. 3. Shakespeare’s life and legacy is threatened when the Gunpowder Plot...
Second in a three-part docuseries on the life and work of William Shakespeare, combining interviews with drama vignettes. 2. A 30-year-old Shakespeare is at the top of his game: he’s got a job at...
Stephen Sackur interviews Gregory Doran, emeritus artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Recorded at the RSC in Stratford, Doran discusses why Shakespeare still matters 400 years after his death.
Podcast. Host Jacke Wilson talks to journalist Michael Blanding about Dennis McCarthy’s theory that Thomas North was a major influence on Shakespeare.