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Abbreviated version of The Winter’s Tale. William Shakespeare reads the play to some friends. The story is largely the plot of the play but Autolycus is omitted and there is no pursuit of a bear. McKernan...
Feature film version of Measure for Measure. Lavish sets, lush costumes and hundreds of extras fail to redeem the film. Variety, reviewing the US release, notes bad lighting, poor sound and unhelpful English...
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...
Independent short. '...if we meet we shall no ‘scape a brawl, For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.' Act III scene i of Romeo and Juliet is re-imagined for the screen, but this time with a...
Slapstick comedy short. When the Chase family are trying to come up with ideas for a charity variety show for missionaries they decide to stage scenes from Romeo and Juliet with Madge as Juliet and Charley...
Feature film. A comedic melodrama telling the story of a love triangle between a vaudeville knife-thrower, his target girl and a hammy Shakespearean actor.
Feature film. Gilbert Valence (Piccoli) is an aging actor who is in the prime of his career, enjoying prominent roles in both theatre and film. During a performance of Ionesco’s Exit the King , with...
Feature film adapted from H.G. Wells’ short novel The Island of Dr Moreau (1896). The hubristic scientist, Dr Moreau, is banished from his home to a remote island where he proclaims himself the absolute...
Feature film. Brilliant young general Macbeth pulls off a glorious victory in battle before returning to an indolent court where honours are dispensed by whim. Spurred on by prophesying drifters and an...
Independent low-budget short made by teenagers. In 1593, two playwrights ruled the stage in London, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. On May 30, history recorded that four men met together in a...
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