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A televised production of the staging first performed at the 1973 New York Shakespeare Festival. James Earl Jones is Lear. The cast is ethnically diverse - Lear and his daughters are black, Gloucester is...
Video recording of JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of Cymbeline for the 1989 New York Shakespeare Festival. George Bartenieff is Cymbeline and Joan Cusack is Imogen. Original music by Philip Glass.
Abbreviated version of the play directed by Charles Kent with Florence Turner as Viola and Charles Kent as Malvolio.
The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with David...
Video recording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre 2012 staging of an all-male Richard III with Mark Rylance in the title role. Directed by Tim Carroll.
Television production of the play, adapted by John Barton. A romantic conception, lavishly designed in the Regency period. Interpreted with clarity but with no great insights. Richard Chamberlain is Hamlet.
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York of Verdi’s Otello. James McCracken sings the title role. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by George Solti. Milton Cross...
A recording of King John by the Marlowe Dramatic Society directed by George Rylands. Michael Hordern is King John.
Radio play about the madness of a ‘modern’ Hamlet, set in a psychiatric home in Scotland. Originally conceived as a stage play, author Moray McLaren has written his own radio version which was produced...
Excerpts from the production of Twelfth Night broadcast 14 February 1958 in the Sunday-Night Theatre series and catalogued separately. The extracts, intended for schools, are introduced by Priscilla Morgan...
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