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The complete Columbia/Mercury recording of Orson Welles’ 1938 production of The Merchant of Venice. The 2 CD set also contains seven scenes from Macbeth with Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson.
A Mercury Theatre production. Stage directions and scenes not recorded are narrated by Welles. The Mercury Text recording makes no attempt to re-create the Broadway production. Also includes Maurice Evans...
A Mercury Text Record, a series designed to contribute to the developing interest in audiovisual media in teaching Shakespeare. Welles wrote and recorded a prologue to the play which is a conversation...
Radio recording of the play based on Welles’ 1937 modern-dress stage production for the Federal Theater.
US variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. The episode includes the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet (7 mins) enacted by Sarah Churchill and John O’Hare.
Radio broadcast. Ray Collins reads from Hamlet including the entire ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy. To demonstrate the quality of older and newer microphones, the sound engineer switches microphones...
BBC Radio 3 arts series. In this edition Philip Dodd talks to director Richard Linklater about his new film ME AND ORSON WELLES (2008), which explores the life of the great filmmaker, writer and actor when...
Arts news and reviews radio programme with Kirsty Lang. Includes an interview with director Richard Linklater, whose new film stars Zac Efron as a young actor cast by Orson Welles in what was to be his...
Radio broadcast of King Lear adapted and directed by Orson Welles. The announcer is John Brown. Welles is in every scene and includes all Lears’s big speeches, some of which are incorporated into one long...
Unbroadcast sound material comprising a short self-reflexive spoof recorded privately by Mercury Theatre members in April, 1940, entitled Macbeth Follies. Welles recites from III ii ‘we have scotch’d the...
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