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Experimental short film. The wooing scene from The Taming of the Shrew in which the actors spoke the complete text, a primitive sound process known as Voxograph. Ball (op cit) writes ‘When it was presented...
The story of Romeo and Juliet retold in Notting Hill Gate, London, against a backdrop of murder, drugs, sex and rock ‘n’ roll.
Educational film. Actor Hans Conreid discusses aspects of Shakespeare’s works standing before a series of sculptured figures depicting memorable scenes from eight plays. Behind-the-scenes voices speak...
Video recording of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production directed for the stage by Laird Williamson and videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker.
Feature film. An Indian version of Hamlet believed to have been based on a stage production. Adapted by Amanot Hasrat and E.D. Verma. Many scenes are transposed and the parts of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern...
Documentary film about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001), a theatre project for which Schlingensief engaged several neo-nazis as amateur actors. In the theatre production...
Feature film. Ann, secretary to a theatre critic, is persuaded to alter a poor review of actor Edmond Davey’s performance as Othello at the behest of his actress wife, Barbara. Ann is sacked, then falls in...
Feature film version of the play. Ponderous, under-resourced film presented as an epic whose poor reviews prevented its wide distribution.
Feature film. Modernised version of Twelfth Night set in the high living, pot smoking environment of a pop group in the seventies. The cast find themselves in a marshy region along the North Sea known as...
Literary review programme which includes an item on Shakespeare as script-writer, contributed by Alan Dent, who has been working with Laurence Olivier on the script of HAMLET and HENRY V. Dent also reviews...
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