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An interactive DVD documenting the research of Martin White, Professor of Theatre at the University of Bristol, into original practices in the Jacobean Indoor Playhouse focusing particularly on the use of...
Educational film. A team of four actors/teachers run one-day courses at the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) custom-built theatre, the Cockpit, for children studying O level English literature. The...
In this contemporary drama "vaguely inspired by Hamlet", the old tragedy gets the comic treatment. A young Hamlet heads home to the Prince of Denmark pub after leaving University. His father, the owner has...
Part of a series documenting key artists, issues and debates within the black arts sector in Britain, commissioned between 1988 and 1995. An experiment in staging parts of Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s...
Animated version of Alfred Jarry’s play by Geoff Dunbar. The play offers parodic adaptations of situations and plots from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III.
Radio broadcast. Verdi’s opera with José Van Dam in the title role. The Vienna Philharmonic is conducted by Georg Solti.
A documentary about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in...
Feature film based loosely on Romeo and Juliet. Two high school teenagers fall in love but their parents do not approve and resort to deception to separate them.
Biopic featuring Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath and Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes. At one point Plath and Hughes recite from three of Shakespeare’s plays - King Lear (Plath reciting Lear on the heath having...
Living Shakespeare is a collection of filmed essays commissioned by the British Council as part of the Shakespeare Lives project which celebrates Shakespeare’s influence on culture, language, education and...
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