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Documentary. The programme goes behind the scenes of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford to watch the various stages of John Barton’s production of The Tempest. It also explores Shakespeare’s life...
Television comedy series. This episode includes a sketch, written by aspiring playwright, Ernie Wise for Glenda Jackson, the guest star. Shows an encounter between Cleopatra, Caesar and Antony with a dubious...
Television arts series. Peter Brook and his Experimental Theatre Company prepare for a production of The Tempest and are seen in acting exercises and performance. Brook believes that we no longer know what...
A video recording of the stage production of King Lear by the Prospect Theatre Company, directed by Kenny McBain with Timothy West as Lear.
Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same...
Documentary on Joseph Papp, producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theatre. He discusses the mission of his theatre, his role in the development of new productions, his trepidation over his own...
Originally staged by Jonathan Miller at the Old Vic in 1970 and then at the National Theatre, London in 1971, the production was subsequently recorded for television. The production is set in Venice in the...
A live sound recording of Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Alan Howard as Theseus/Oberon and Sara Kestelman as Hippolyta/Titania.
Norwegian audiobook recording of Shakespeare’s play originally produced for NRK radio in 1971. Produced for broadcasting by Gerhard Knoop with Svein Sturla Hugnes and Anne Marit Jacobsen in the lead. Music...
An introduction to the play’s theme or atmosphere, designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same actors play several roles, thus showing how the plays were...