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Compilation of sketches from the series. Includes a one minute skit in which Aimi MacDonald recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy whilst tap dancing. Next week Aimi promises King Lear.
Feature film. An ageing Shakespearean actor (Bachchan) is gravely ill, the rigours of a film shoot having left him in a coma. His co-star, Shabnam (Zinta), is deeply worried, but their director, Siddharth...
Feature film derived from the stage rock musical Hair about a group of hippies whose beliefs run counter to the traditional American 1960s morality. Two songs make reference to Shakespeare’s plays - What a...
Loreena McKennit’s album includes ‘Prospero’s Last Speech’ where McKennitt sings the epilogue. The song can be listened to on the Amazon.com site.
Television documentary. The first episode in a six-part series in which director Richard Eyre gives his personal view on the history of the theatre in the twentieth century. Eyre considers the enduring...
Low budget independent short inspired by Hamlet. No further information known (8/2011).
Radio series in which contemporary writers reflect on the theme of Jaques’s ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech in the form of dramatic monologues. The last episode is a repeat broadcast of a play for one...
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...
BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service charts the magical chemistry between Shakespeare’s language and the music it has given life to over the last 400 years - from Romeo and Juliet to The Tempest.
Norman Del Mar conducts the English Chamber Orchestra in Romeo and Juliet - A Ballet in Two Tableaux, Constant Lambert’s score for Diaghilev’s ballet. Recording made July 1977 at the Kingsway Hall, London.
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