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Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The actress Charlotte Cushman was a theatrical icon in 19th century America, known to the press by her first name. Her fame was not, however, for conventionally...
Made-for-television film. Acclaimed recreation of the meeting between actress Coral Browne and British spy and defector Guy Burgess, in Moscow in 1958. The initial meeting took place in a theatre, where...
Pat Quigley, education liaison of the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, interviews five actresses about their experiences playing women in Shakespeare’s plays. Includes black and white footage of...
Chinese writer and actress Tsai Chin talks about her life in Shanghai, London and New York and her return to China to direct a production of The Tempest. Includes a brief extract from the production (in...
A series of 8mm film-loops on stage make-up produced in co-operation with Clifford John Williams, Principal, Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, England. This loop demonstrates approaches to make-up...
Actress Pat Fraser (Gertrude in the production) describes the creation of the costumes for the Guthrie Theatre production of Hamlet directed by Stephen Kanee. Costume designer Carrie Robbins also comments.
US sitcom. Rosie is taking classes in drama, and is singled out by the famous actress Blanche Marlowe to play a bit part as Charmian in her travelling production of Antony and Cleopatra; Rosie gets bitten by...
Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. This edition looks at Poland’s continuing fascination with Shakespeare and especially the work of Stanis aw Wyspia ski, who was fascinated by...
Radio talk show hosted by Margaret McBride. Guests are actress George Grace and actor Walter Hampden. Walter Hampden, the grandson of Edwin Booth, discusses playing Hamlet and keeping Shakespeare current and...
Feature film. A comedy drama in which a successful actress starts rehearsing the role of Lady Macbeth at a small New England theater and finds herself haunted by the ghost of William Shakespeare - who would...
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