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Radio programme investigating the legends and beliefs that might have informed Ophelia’s enigmatic remark in Act IV ("They say the owl was a baker’s daughter"). Presented by Terence Tiller, the...
Video recording of Robert Sturua’s Richard III first staged at the Edinburgh Festival in 1979 with Ramaz Chkhikvadze as Richard. The Arts Institute recording was made from a production which premiered 10...
Feature film. Adaptation of Macbeth filmed in Faux Cap, Madagascar and acted (largely improvised) by Antroyds, a local tribe of fishermen.
Episode 21 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI...
This live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Verity Sharp, features Oliver Knussen’s 7-minute sequence Ophelia Dances which evokes Ophelia’s perturbation at her rejection by Hamlet, her...
Video recording of the 2005 Toneelgroep production of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Ivo van Hove with Hans Kesting as Petruchio and Halina Reijn as Katherine.
Radio performance in Italian of Verdi’s ‘Lyrical Comedy in Three Acts’. Libretto by Arrigo Boito. The Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of Radiotelevisione Italiana, Turin are conducted by Mario Rossi....
Live recording of Verdi’s opera with Anthony Michaels-Moore and Georgina Lukacs as the Macbeths. Edward Downes conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Radio broadcast that focuses on the character of Caliban in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Produced by Mary Hope Allen with commentary by Herbert Farjeon. With Herbert Lomas as Caliban.
Radio adaptation of Twelfth Night with Leslie French, Peggy Ashcroft and Thea Holme. Anthony Hulme performs as (narrative) Chorus. Music arranged by Elizabeth Poston, and played by the Aeolian string quartet.
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