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Five young scholars re-evaluate the playwrights work. In the opening programme Sophie Duncan reveals how Shakespeare’s heroines helped transform Victorian schoolgirls into Edwardian activists. The 19th...
A sound recording of Michael Benthall’s 1954 Old Vic production with Robert Helpmann as Oberon and Moira Shearer as Titania. Mendelssohn’s incidental music is played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra...
Video recording of JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of Cymbeline for the 1989 New York Shakespeare Festival. George Bartenieff is Cymbeline and Joan Cusack is Imogen. Original music by Philip Glass.
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...
Writer and critic John Elsom talks to administrators, directors and politicians about how financial and bureaucratic organisation affects what appears on the stage. He looks at changes in organisation since...
A videotape recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2003 production of As You Like It. Directed by Gregory Thompson with Nina Sosanya as Rosalind.
CD ROM providing a visual and educational insight into Shakespeare’s life in Elizabethan England. Illustrated with photographs of buildings (aerial and ground shots) in and around Stratford-upon-Avon with...
Comedy short concerning a disastrous performance of two vaudeville actors (Will and Will Not) at a small provincial theatre. Among their acts is one in which they play the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet...
Second episode of a Victorian detective series in which Lucy Greenwood and her Uncle Craddock investigate a series of mysterious incidents at a London theatre. When, during performances of Hamlet, the actor...
BBC current affairs television programme. In this item presenter Vera Gilbert reports from St George’s Theatre, Tufnell Park, London. St George’s is an Elizabethan-style theatre which was converted from...
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