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Television documentary. An introduction to Hamlet by Dr Frank C. Baxter.
Compositions by Alfred Reed for wind ensemble. The Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra is conducted by the composer. Recorded at the Fumon Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Contents: Texana (3:52); Prelude and capriccio (7:00);...
Live sound recording of Richard Eyre’s 1993 production of Macbeth with Alan Howard and Anastasia Hille as the Macbeths.
Radio variety show. In this episode John Barrymore and his daughter Diana perform the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. Vallee plays Mercutio.
A modern interpretation by the English Shakespeare Company, recorded at the Grand Theatre, Swansea before a live audience. The seven plays in the ‘Wars of the Roses’ cycle were performed over seven...
Neil Aldrich recites Shakespeare’s sonnets, and other works, speculating about the recitative convention employed in the 17th century. The delivery is rap-like, very different from the performance norm....
Extract from the arts anthology series. Dr Frank Baxter discusses the design of the Globe Theatre, why Shakespearean clowns are not funny, and how the Elizabethans perceived their world. Hosted by Alistair...
Feature film. An awkward Scottish schoolboy eventually finds love. Comedy set in a Scottish new town. Includes a scene in a classroom where Andy (Buchanan) reads aloud from Puck’s speech ending `...and...
Video recording by the Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) using a single, fixed camera, of Adrian Noble’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Alex Jennings as Oberon and Lindsay Duncan as Titania....
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the 1993 Royal Shakespeare Company’s promenade production of Julius Caesar. The play was set in Eastern Europe in the 1980s drawing strong parallels with...
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