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US television sitcom about the Huxtable family, an African-American family living in New York City. Dr Heathcliff (`Cliff’) Huxtable (Cosby) is a obstetrician, and his wife Clair (Rashid), is an attorney;...
Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings...
Televised adaptation of the play which aims, according to producer Don Taylor, at ‘simplicity and understanding’ (Radio Times, 12 April 1962, p.51). Starring Robert Shaw as Leontes and Rosalie Crutchley...
Film adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in Tuscany in the 1890s.
Us sitcom set in the Watts district of Los Angeles, following the life of Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx), a 65-year-old African-American junk dealer who shares his business with his 34-year-old son Lamont (Desmond...
Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. Among the various stage plays that he praises for their comic qualities, he discusses J. M. Barrie’s ‘Rosalind’. A "comedy of...
A masterclass on speaking and performing Shakespeare introduced by Trevor Nunn and led by John Barton who works with Royal Shakespeare Company actors Alan Howard, Michael Pennington, David Suchet, Ian...
A modern dress production set in Fascist Germany. Filmed on a primitive set, heavily cut, and with cutaway shots which reveal cameramen crouching in the wings. Originally broadcast on Westinghouse Studio One...
Video recording of Jean Gascon’s production of The Taming of the Shrew for the 1973 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Pat Galloway is Katherina and Alan Scarfe is Petruchio.
Feature blockbuster action/comedy film. Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a...
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