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Feature film. ‘Comedy based on the characters created by Bruce Bairnsfather. Old Bill, in the trenches during the First World War, eats tinned lobster and dreams that he and his friends travel back in time...
Feature film. A comedy drama set in German-occupied Warsaw in World War II. Stars Jack Benny as Joseph Tura, the principal actor in a Polish troupe performing Hamlet. The film was controversial, not least in...
A one-off special variety sketch show. The show was taped in London in (ATV’s studios) and satirises the English. Sketches include Carol and Fred as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; Anne Boleyn writing an...
A video recording of Michal Docekal’s 2000 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Theatre of Comedy, Prague set in London during the Second World War. David Matasek is Oberon and Alena Streblova...
Second of 6 one-hour episodes in which three plays (Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, Henry V) are joined together in Dickon Reed’s radio adaptation which follows the fortunes of Prince Hal. With music by...
The Yiddish Theatre in Moscow flourished during the cultural renaissance that followed the Russian Revolution. Two of the moving forces behind the theatre were Solomon Mikhoels and Benjamin Zuskin,...
Televised recording of Michael Croft’s National Youth Theatre Company stage production set in 1914. John Nightingale is Coriolanus.
Melodrama. During World War II, Krishnendu Mukerjee, a priest, is brought a wounded woman whom he recognises as Rina Brown, an Anglo-Indian and his former lover. In flashback he recalls his college days...
Video recording. The production combines Shakespeare’s text with circus, multimedia, visual metaphor and aerial choreography inspired by the events of the War of the Roses. Richard is played by several...
Living Shakespeare is a collection of filmed essays commissioned by the British Council as part of the Shakespeare Lives project which celebrates Shakespeare’s influence on culture, language, education and...
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