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News item. Following his statement made two weeks previously that he intends to resign as Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1991, Terry Hands talks to Stephen Phillips. He criticises the...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Othello is the story of a tragic murder and suicide involving a dark-skinned general and his aristocratic, white-skinned bride. Who should direct it? Who is...
Radio variety show. ‘Broadcast shortly after the release of TO BE OR NOT TO BE, guest Joan Bennett and regular Mary Livingston (Mary Benny) banter with Jack about his role as a famous Shakespearean actor....
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...
Television special featuring The Beatles. At the beginning of the show the group performs a parody of the Pyramus and Thisbe scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a 1960’s version of the Globe Theatre...
Educational television. Pupils from Denbigh High School in Luton re-enact extracts from Richard III, analysing both the personalities and motivations of the characters. The pupils discuss why performing the...
Feature film western. The story concerns Matt Devereaux (Tracy), a cattle baron who in his brutal ambition to build a ranching empire tyrannises his three eldest sons - Ben, Denny and Mike. Only Joe, his son...
Video recording of JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of Cymbeline for the 1989 New York Shakespeare Festival. George Bartenieff is Cymbeline and Joan Cusack is Imogen. Original music by Philip Glass.
Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...
Feature film. Romantic teen comedy offering a contemporary version of Twelfth Night. Viola is a teenage tomboy who disguises herself as her brother, Sebastian, in order to play in the boy’s Illyria...
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