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Feature film which presents Hamlet as a princess. While the King of Denmark is seriously ill his wife gives birth to a daughter, telling the court that a son has been born in order to safeguard the crown....
Video recording of Dmitry Krymov’s interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which incorporates acrobats, an opera singer, 10ft high puppets and a Jack Russell terrier.
A Kyogen adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Mansaku Nomura and adapted by Yasunari Takahashi. An introductory talk (in Japanese) precedes the play.
Podcast hosted by Greg LaBlanc. When we read fiction, our brains are able to suspend our awareness of the fiction so we can fully immerse ourselves in the story we’re reading. When this happens, we are...
Video recording of Tim Crouch’s play for children aged 11+ which encourages young audiences to think about the relationship between words and actions, art and politics and self and society. I, Cinna (the...
Film version of the musical inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Updates the play to a story of rival teenage gangs (The Sharks and The Jets) in New York. Set in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, with...
Fiction short. An allegory on ‘coming out’ set in working-class Dublin. A son comes home to his family to find his father repairing the car, and his mother in the kitchen cooking as usual. As he...
Video recording of William Hutt’s 1971 production of Much Ado About Nothing for the Shakespeare (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Kenneth Welsh is Benedick and Jane Casson is Beatrice.
Feature film. A French-Spanish derivative of Othello set in the late 1970s in which Othello is cast as a mercenary soldier fighting in Africa. Courtney Lehmann in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (op cit)...
Feature film version of the play. A bawdy and boisterous production, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which reduces the play to the Katharina/Petruccio romance
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