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Series of comedy playlets starring Jimmy Edwards, with June Whitfield and Ronnie Barker. This episode parodied The SPREAD OF THE EAGLE BBC series. Set in Roman Britain the play incorporated cod Shakespearean...
Podcast hosted by Dr Anjna Chouhan that discusses Shakespeare in the 21st Century. In this edition she speaks to costume designer Evie Gurney about her work on the National Theatre’s Antony and Cleopatra...
Radio documentary. Graphic designer Teresa Monachino looks at who owns Shakespeare in terms of branding and how the name and image have been commercialised. Contributors include: Professor Michael Dobson...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2005 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Directed by Gregory Doran with Amanda Harris as Titania and Joe Dixon as...
Television documentary. Follows the progress of Jonathan Miller’s production of Antony and Cleopatra for the BBC TELEVISION SHAKESPEARE series. Covers the initial planning meeting, rehearsals, Miller...
Theatre designer Sally Jacobs talks to Christie Carson. Jacobs reflects on working with Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the impact of the ‘white box’, and with John Barton on a production...
Fiction comedy short. When a staging of Hamlet fails the manager insists on putting on a revised version and persuades a wealthy girl to play Ophelia. In the performance the Ghost does a song and dance...
Television documentary series about showmen and the shows they produce. Episode 4 is a profile of Peter Hall. Hall talks about his opinions, ideas and work as a producer and director and about his feature...
Documentary charting the development of Merry Wives, the Black-led 2021 Shakespeare in the Park adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor set in a community of West African immigrants in South Harlem. The...
Nine-part television documentary series on arts and crafts in Britain. Episode 7 follows theatre designer Pamela Howard through her collaboration with director Ronald Eyre on a production of Othello for the...
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