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Feature film inspired by Measure for Measure and the action moving from Vienna to contemporary Lahore. The director addresses through the text of Shakespeare’s play issues relevant to contemporary...
Feature film. A loose reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story. Set in a small coal mining village in Wales in 1911, a young Jewish peddler (Solomon) meets Gaenor, the eldest daughter of a Christian mining...
Feature film telling of the prejudices and Islam-phobia which is still deep-rooted among some sections of immigrant Indians in London. The director sees Life Goes On as a modern retelling of King Lear, for...
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...
Gangster film based loosely on Macbeth, and set in the world of the New York Mafia, a young man wins the respect of his godfather by murdering the leaders of a rival family. In his quest for total power he...
Radio broadcasts of an extract from Shakespeare’s King Henry (Act IV), with Esmond Knight in the title role.
Film adaptation of the play with Douglas Booth and Hallee Steinfeld in the title roles.
Feature film version of the play by first-time director, Oliver Parker. The film was marketed as ‘an erotic thriller’ and Fishbourne, although physically powerful, fails to speak his lines with fluidity...
Feature film. Stylised martial arts action drama based very loosely on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. When his brother is murdered, ex-cop Han Sing breaks out of jail to avenge his killing and gets...
Television arts series introduced by Sheridan Morley. John Gielgud, Dame Edith Evans, Vanessa Redgrave and Donald Sinden discuss the ways in which acting has changed in the last hundred years. There is an...
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