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The premiere of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) at the Warner Beverly theatre in Beverly Hills. and behind-the-scenes production footage with shots between takes of many cast members. Includes footage of...
Dame Edith Evans talks about acting Shakespeare’s plays, the ways in which she approaches different characters and the importance of language.
Radio broadcast. American scholar Arthur Coldby Sprague talks to J.C. Trewin about some of the memorable performances and productions of Shakespeare plays he has seen over the last 60 years. There are...
Television satirical puppet show. Includes two brief sketches, one where film director Michael Winner tries to direct television presenter Jim Bowen as Hamlet, the other where the producers of a new...
Macbeth has inspired many inventive and influential screen adaptations by Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Trevor Nunn, Gregory Doran, Vishal Bhardwaj, Justin Kurzel and Akira Kurosawa. The history is explored...
Second instalment of a five-part schools programme series that attempts to makes Shakespeare accessible to children by having well-known actors comment on and perform key scenes from Shakespeare’s plays...
In this radio talk Hitchcock replies to Granville-Barker’s proposition that Shakespeare’ plays could not be represented adequately on the air or the screen from the point of view of the filmmaker. Val...
Film producers and professional actors work with a group of students to create a production of Romeo and Juliet at the George Washington High School, an inner-city school in Los Angeles at the intersection...
Television programme exploring the way actors, writers and producers create BBC radio drama. Includes ‘the making of’ scenes from various adaptations, such as the 1977 BBC Radio 3 production of ANTONY...
Radio programme. Derek Jacobi takes a light-hearted look at Shakespeare’s longest and possibly most abused play. Considers what actors, adaptors and producers have done to the play since its first...
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