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Experimental film. A comparison of text from The Oxford Companion to English Literature, with a full blown rendering of the ‘Tomorrow’ speech. A Brechtian romp, an art school exercise.' [Description as...
Feature film comedy. A high school drama teacher (Coogan) tries to motivate his students and save his department by writing a politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Independent local radio programme. Bob Holness interviews RSC Actor-Director David Jones about the Royal Shakespeare Company’s policy not to do repertoire in order to save costs; the centenary celebration...
Canadian arts series. Julius Caesar performed for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival and adapted for television and directed by Paul Almond. William Shatner as Mark Antony.
Radio play by Joe K. Bevilacqua, billed as a modernisation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ranger Lorie is having a big Valentine’s "Kiss-Off" square dance to help raise money to save her...
Television current affairs programme presented by Trevor Phillips. The campaign to save the site of the Rose Theatre, recently discovered on London’s South Bank during constructions for an office block....
Turkish feature film directed by Sinan Cetin. When he learns that his only daughter Su has Leukaemia, police officer Cemil (Kadir Inanir) sets up a theatre in his police station in the hope of winning a TV...
Comic opera. Ambroise Thomas’ comic three-act fantasy in which Queen Elizabeth intervenes in a young Shakespeare’s life to save him from debauchery with his friend Falstaff, and to turn him toward his...
Animation version of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. sagas televised in six parts. Wyrd Sisters is a parody on Macbeth. Granny Weatherwax returns, along with fellow witches Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick. The...
Feature film. A romantic period comedy which asks what would have happened had William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes loved the same woman. Leonor de Vibero (Anaya), an aspiring actress, heads for Spain...
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