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The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...
A television version of Robert Wilson’s 2009 stagework in which he has selects 24 of Shakespeare’s sonnets to perform and illustrate. In ‘Sonette’ the women play men and men play women. Inge...
Screen version of the 2016 Donmar production of Shakespeare’s last play, restaged with a live audience and filmed at a bespoke venue in King’s Cross. An all-female production, presented as if played by...
Fiction short. Alice Day is Juliet in a rustic stage performance of Romeo and Juliet. Ball notes ‘I wish I had seen, a Mack Sennett Romeo and Juliet with the hilariously cross-eyed Ben Turpin as Romeo. In...
A one-act take on Hamlet in the stand-up comedy genre, The boy/man, accompanied by dog Horatio and his air guitar, turns up in a dream/nightmare world. The original text becomes an amalgam of The Simpsons,...
Radio broadcast. Live recording of Verdi’s Falstaff from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. Anselmo Colzani is Falstaff. Leonard Bernstein conducts the Metropolitan Orchestra and Chorus. Milton...
Television schools series in eight parts, examining the conflict between good and evil in medieval and Elizabethan drama. Episode 2 considers Christopher Marlowe’s version of the Dr Faustus legend, the man...
The three musical pieces collected on the CD represent a cross section of the instrumental theatre of Russian composer Alexander Bakshi. The first track, ‘Hamlet is Dying’, is a 18-minute Shakespeare...
Radio drama written by Georgia Fitch in collaboration with pupils from an inner-London school and the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre education department. Set in London’s Southwark, Stephen’s (Mohammed...
Travel series with Timothy West and Prunella Scales. The duo conclude their latest series of boat journeys with a trip down the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, one of Britain’s most picturesque waterways. The...
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