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A conference held at Asia House, Cavendish Street, London and BFI Southbank April 27-30 2016. Indian Shakespeares on stage have garnered the increasing attention of academics both Western and Eastern, yet...
Bollywood version of Hamlet. Ophelia is a young journalist, Polonious a policeman, Laertes works for a multinational and Hamlet is a philosophy student from Kasmir, the former Himalayan province. The film...
Documentary showing the work of the Century Theatre Company as they tour the north-west of England in their mobile playhouse. Includes rehearsals for a production of Twelfth Night in Richmond, North...
Melodrama. During World War II, Krishnendu Mukerjee, a priest, is brought a wounded woman whom he recognises as Rina Brown, an Anglo-Indian and his former lover. In flashback he recalls his college days...
Hindi feature film. The story of Violet Stoneham, an ageing Anglo-Indian schoolteacher who lives in a dingy apartment in Calcutta and teaches Shakespeare. Two young lovers walk into her life one Christmas...
Feature film western. The story concerns Matt Devereaux (Tracy), a cattle baron who in his brutal ambition to build a ranching empire tyrannises his three eldest sons - Ben, Denny and Mike. Only Joe, his son...
Feature film. An Indian version of Hamlet believed to have been based on a stage production. Adapted by Amanot Hasrat and E.D. Verma. Many scenes are transposed and the parts of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern...
Feature film. A teen romance combining a Romeo and Juliet theme with a pop musical. Dhanraj Singh spent years in prison for killing the man responsible for his sister’s suicide. His family, and the family...
Feature film. When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage ‘An Evening With Shakespeare’, their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker (Parsons), who views the works of Shakespeare as...
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...
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