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Three-part educational series which shows the backstage and onstage production of the 1999 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Richard Monette. The first...
Christie Carson interviews Chris Dyer about stage design. Dyer is Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Senior Lecturer in Design for Performance at Central Saint Martins College of Art and...
Television chat show in which guests discuss with the host the things they dislike most and would like to consign to ‘Room 101’ (a reference from George Orwell’s novel 1984). Comedian Frank Skinner,...
US documentary series analysing the physiology and psychology of laughter. In episode 4, INHIBITION, E.B. Pettit (Chairman of Arts, Brandeis University) explains Freud’s theory that laughter helps people...
Television drama by Francis Cockrell based on Rupert Croft-Cook’s original story. In order to get a murderer to confess, a detective hires a famous Shakespearean actress to play the ghost of the dead man,...
Comedian Ronald Frankau, in his customary top hat and tails and smoking a cigarette in a long holder, recites a humorous rhyming monologue on blood in Shakespeare’s plays because ‘I like to see a murder...
Ken Campbell’s version of Macbeth, directed by Campbell, and spoken in Pidgin English (Wol Wantok). Performed by 2nd year students at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). This recording...
Newsfilm. Footage of the set of 5 postage stamps which will commemorate Shakespeare’s 400th birthday when the National Shakespeare Festival opens on April 23rd. Also footage of the stamps designer David...
Actress Pat Fraser (Gertrude in the production) describes the creation of the costumes for the Guthrie Theatre production of Hamlet directed by Stephen Kanee. Costume designer Carrie Robbins also comments.
Documentary following Roy Alexander Weise as he puts together an ‘Afro-Futurist’ production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other contributors include...
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