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Harriet Walter reads an amended version of her contribution to the book Performing Shakespeare. This was the version intended by Walter for publication; the published book used an earlier, edited, verbatim...
This adaptation by Richard Griffin of Shakespeare’s play is set in 1754 in the fictional town of Athens, Massachusetts.
Feature film comedy. A group of young actors rehearsing a production of Macbeth find their roles are reflecting and shaping their personalities. Claudia (Gloria Reuben) and Max (David Lansbury) both audition...
Laurence Olivier talks to Patrick Garland from his home in Sussex, and reads his own choice of poetry and prose from William Shakespeare and other writers.
Video recording using a single camera of a performance of The Shakespeare Revue, directed by Christopher Luscombe and Malcolm McKee, at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, in February 1996. The Revue opened at...
Travelogue. English life in Autumn, Winter and Spring. Includes sequences from the Old Vic production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with comedian Frankie Howerd as Bottom at the play rehearsal and Titania...
Sitcom centred around Timothy Lumsden, a depressed 41-year-old who still lives at home with, and is dominated by, his mother. In this episode Timothy is promoted from prompter to Bottom in the the local...
Feature film. Mark Feinman (Callis) dreams that he is stranded alone on a desert island. He believes his dream to be a premonition and immediately sets up a touring theatre company with two friends. Their...
Radio documentary. Graphic designer Teresa Monachino looks at who owns Shakespeare in terms of branding and how the name and image have been commercialised. Contributors include: Professor Michael Dobson...
Television drama. A romantic comedy. Tourist bus driver and Shakespeare fanatic Will Green (Morrissey) wants to escape his grim existence in north London and remove himself and his family to a rose-covered...
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