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Musical/Documentary. "RAPPING WITH SHAKESPEARE is a modern day hip-hop version of Shakespeare’s tales that explores the lives of five South Central Los Angeles teenagers attending Crenshaw High School. The...
Satirical feature film setting the Romeo and Juliet story into Cold War politics. Igor Romanoff, the son of a Russian ambassador from an obscure Eastern European country, Concordia, falls in love with Juliet...
Feature film. Adaptation by Boris Pasternak. Sometimes imaginative, sometimes stolid, the production takes every opportunity to get out of the studio. Sergei Bondarchuk is Othello.
Feature film version of the Broadway musical by George Abbott, Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, itself a free adaptation of The Comedy of Errors. "A musical employing Shakespeare’s plot and Ephesus...
Feature film. The narrative is told in flashback. Jack Noah (Dreyfuss) is a fairly successful stage and film actor on a location shoot in the English-speaking Parador. He’s given an offer he can’t refuse...
Feature film. Mr Hundert (Kline) is a classics teacher in an all-boys prep school. Each year he moderates the ‘Mr Julius Caesar’ contest, a competition which pits the top three students of his class...
Television version of the play adapted and directed by Rupert Goold. Ben Whishaw is King Richard and Rory Kinnear is Bolingbroke.
Murder mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as the mystery writer-cum amateur detective. Jessica Fletcher. In this episode Jessica rushes to London in an attempt to aid her cousin, a famous actress in...
American television series rotating between three characters working at a magazine empire in Los Angeles: a crusading reporter with ‘People Magazine’ (Franciosa), a sophisticated publisher (Barry), and a...
The relentlessly cold and unemotional interpretation was heavily influenced by the essay, ‘King Lear or Endgame’, in which the Polish poet/critic/academic Jan Kott argued that Lear should be interpreted...
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