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A new work by composer Gavin Bryars commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Opera North. Inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets, Nothing Like The Sun: The Sonnet Project is a two-part performance....
Documentary, filmed over 24 hours, on the celebration of Shakespeare’s anniversary in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 1979.
Educational videotape. A teacher and pupil travel back in time to 1609 to interview Shakespeare over lunch at the Mermaid Tavern. They question him about the writing and performance of his plays - including...
A report that over the past 40 years the Royal Shakespeare Company has established itself as one of Britain’s greatest theatrical institutions. But recently critics have accused the Company of bad...
Film (probably a newsfilm item) of acclaimed Dutch actor Louis Bouwmeester in his dressing room at the Rialto theatre, Amsterdam making-up for his role as Shylock. Directed by Willy Mullens.
Radio broadcast. Excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays featured in two successive programmes containing a selection of various items, transmitted at 6.40 pm and 8 pm respectively.
Feature film version of Hamlet. Recording of a stage production.
A modern interpretation by the English Shakespeare Company, recorded at the Grand Theatre, Swansea before a live audience. The seven plays in the ‘Wars of the Roses’ cycle were performed over seven...
Radio broadcast. First of three interval talks in which various artists talk about their personal appreciation of Shakespeare. In this episode actor Donald Wolfit looks back on 40 years of acting and...
Educational series. One in a twelve-part series of films made by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (now TV Ontario). The aim was to relate ‘Shakespeare’s timeless ideas and understanding...
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