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Made-for-television film based on a performance of the State Theatre ‘Volnaja Stesena’, Minsk. Adapted by Alexey Dudarev with Oleg Garbuz as Macbeth.
Feature film. Punjab version of Romeo and Juliet. While attending a wedding Dido Ranjha falls in love with Heer Saleti who is already married. Their families are long-standing enemies and determine to...
A series of short vignettes in which six contemporary storytellers offer their interpretations of the word ‘fire’. Playwright Christopher Durang creates a mini-sitcom on the woes of inactivity;...
Saint-Saens’ opera based on Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. The Orchestre Lyrique Francais is conducted by Alain Guingal. Philippe Rouillon is Henry VIII.
Mini-series reworking King Lear and set in the lucrative coal distribution industry of Richards Bay. It depicts the lives of two families torn apart by jealousy, greed and deception and incorporates the...
Feature Western film in which critics have seen the influence of the Gloucester sub-plot in King Lear. The patriach, Donald Crisp, is worried about his kingdom (cattle ranch) and, like Gloucester, he is...
Feature film directed by Minky Schlesinger derived from the 2008 television mini-series broadcast by SABC1 which sets the story of Romeo and Juliet during the faction fighting that brought the East Rand...
Russian version of Much Ado About Nothing incorporating ballet and dance. Courtney Lehmann (op cit) writes: ‘This film is a curious hybrid that includes classical ballet interludes, a narrator figure who...
An advertisment for Amour, distributor of adult movies. A young woman, perhaps a student, speaks to camera in an audition ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?/Thou are more lovely’. The off-screen...
In an experiment with Google’s Creative Lab, in June 2013 the Royal Shakespeare Company extended its stage online. The RSC performed A Midsummer Night’s Dream in real time over three days, as a group of...
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