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Comedy series. Alexei Sayle delivers comic monologues; in one of them he reflects on the meaning of Shakespeare’s work. No further details known [9/2010].
Video recording of John Hirsch’s 1983 production of As You Like It for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Roberta Maxwell is Rosalind.
Fly-on-the-wall documentary series, in six episodes, which observes, over five days, pupils at Oriel High School, Gorleston staging a production of Romeo and Juliet.
Documentary. Actor David Harewood has five days to turn a group of teenagers from his old school, Washwood Heath Technology College, Birmingham into Shakespearean performers capable of appearing on the stage...
Comedy series starring Tommy Cooper. Includes a sketch in which Tommy Cooper plays Hamlet. He begins the ‘to be or not to be’ speech which he interrupts with comic banter.
US comedy variety show hosted by Steve Allen. This episode includes a comedy monologue (9 mins) from Andy Griffith relating the plot and characters of Romeo and Juliet.
Twice-weekly television news magazine programme. In this episode Ludovic Kennedy interviews Peggy Ashcroft. In her first television interview Dame Peggy speaks of her unease at the way stage drama translates...
Us television variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. This special broadcast covering the annual Festival of Two Worlds from Spoleto includes John Gielgud speaking a soliloquy from Richard II and Nora Kaye and...
Children’s drama series set in a performing arts college near Barcelona, Spain, focusing on thirteen youths who are invited to enrol at Avalon Heights college over the summer. All eight members of the pop...
An contemporary adaptation of The Merchant of Venice directed by Ken Nikai for Japanese television.
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