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Six-part television drama which sets the story of Macbeth in present-day Johannesburg. It tells the story of the rise and fall of Kumkani (Skenjana) a fearless young prodigy in investment banking. When his...
Radio broadcast. Marius Goring aka Charles Richardson talks about Shakespeare’s Englishness. Includes a recitation of Caliban’s "The isle is full of noises" speech from The Tempest (in English and...
Feature film about the reporter Ed Murrow and his determination to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy, the man behind the communist witch-hunt in Hollywood. Edward R. Murrow (Stratham) tells Fred Friendly...
A video recording of the avant garde work by Heiner Muller performed by the Argentinian company El Periferico de Objetos. Bruce Weber, reviewing the production for The New York Times, writes ‘the script is...
A television production of the play that never made it to the screen. It was directed by Donald McWhinnie in 1978 with the intention of being shown as part of the first series of the BBC Television...
Television drama. Written by John Mortimer, this six-part drama based on the sixteen years that William Shakespeare is known to have spent in London remains one of the most ambitious biographical portraits...
Independent short. A parody on office politics. Set in a time when the economy is struggling, the film focuses on a technology department that must prove that they are a valuable resource to the company. The...
A production, for Polish television, of 2007:Macbeth, Grzegorz Jarzyna’s multimedia, politically orientated version of Macbeth set against a background of terrorism. Cezary Losinski and Aleksandra...
As celebrations begin to mark Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, playwright Mark Ravenhill challenges the adulation of the playwright and asks: Is Shakespeare’s genius beyond question? Exploring the...
Feature length, low-budget version of Hamlet filmed in Derry, Northern Ireland. The film cuts the text heavily and rearranges scenes while making interpretative use of locations and accents to draw parallels...
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