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Radio version of a theatre production devised by Jonathan Cullen and Richard Hahlo, based on an original idea by Pippa Smith. Actors from the theatre company Hydrocracker, masquerading as waiters in a pizza...
Sound recording. Duke Ellington’s suite, in collaboration with Billy Strayhorn, in tribute to Shakespeare, commissioned by, and dedicated to, the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. It was premiered...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 7 - Ralf Little performs ‘Now the hungry lion roars’ from A Midsummer...
Three abridged versions of Macbeth, with different edits, which let the audience decide: Why did Macbeth do it? Filmed inside a 1599 virtual Globe Theatre in London. Elizabethan Version Act I Scene i....
Radio programme. A two-part series in which Humphrey Carpenter investigates the attraction of Shakespeare for musicians and composers. Part 1 claims that Shakespeare’s works have inspired over 20,000...
RKO comedy short. The film has little relationship to Shakespeare and is included because of its delightful title. Two bums, Fat and Rivets, are hired by a rich man to make his daughter realise that her...
Radio programme presenting extracts from Shakespeare’s plays in 21 different languages. According to the programme information, this encompasses "Romeo wooing Juliet in Chinese, German, Arabic, Hungarian...
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 live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Geoffrey Smith. Jazz musicians John Dankworth and Cleo Laine celebrate their 80th birthdays with a combination of Shakespeare and jazz. Dankworth...
Extract from a CBC radio broadcast. Duke Ellington had just completed his Shakespearean jazz suite Such Sweet Thunder which was commissioned by the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. The suite...
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