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Feature film and one of the first to set Shakespeare in a Western setting. Larry Lang (Desmond) has carried the memory of his father’s killing by Claude Dutton (Peil) since his youth and is determined to...
Educational television. Resource Review helps teachers to find the best resources for teaching a particular subject. This episode highlights three resources designed to aid the teaching of Shakespeare to...
Cinemagazine. A look at how Stratford celebrated Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary. Views of Stratford including the cottages of Anne Hathaway and Shakespeare’s birthplace. Tony Sheridan strums a guitar...
A re-interpretation and deconstruction of Hamlet by Renato Castellucci. Amleto has only one performer, a child, who recites extracts of text, only one of which is recognisably from Hamlet. It is a study of...
German television recording of a theatre production of Timon of Athens directed for stage by Frank-Patrick Steckel with designs by Dieter Hacker and for television by Martin Kliemann. Peter Roggisch is Timon.
First BBC radio drama broadcast. There is conflicting evidence on the exact content and cast of this programme. BBC Programme Records only credits a single scene from Julius Caesar as being performed by...
Offbeat British television drama series created by Paul Abbott. Set in Stretford, Manchester, it follows the lives of the Chatsworth Estate’s Gallaghers, "UK’s most dysfunctional family" (Channel 4 press...
Television documentary first shown on German television. A record of the filming of Welles’ OTHELLO. The film is re-edited to make the points Welles wishes to make while discussing it. Also included is a...
Feature film presenting the Macbeth plot as a gangster film. Joe Macbeth is number two in the underworld to ‘kingpin’ Duca. Goaded by his wife Lily, who wants Joe to become ‘kingpin’, and...
Live audio recording of Günther Grass’s play that was inspired by the Stalin-Allee worker’s march against the headquarters of the Socialist Unity Party in East Berlin on June 17, 1953 and the reaction...
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