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Feature film in four parts. The life of Hitler conveyed as ‘part theatre, part vaudeville, part magic lantern show...several Hitlers in succession, are interwoven through stylised tableaux, back projected...
Independent low-budget feature film. Ridiculed by some, criticised by all, this cult horror movie places Shakespeare’s play in ancient Rome. The product description reads "this is the saga of a noble man...
A new work by composer Gavin Bryars commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Opera North. Inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets, Nothing Like The Sun: The Sonnet Project is a two-part performance....
US television special. Adaptation of Gielgud’s 1959 one-man show on Broadway. Gielgud gives readings from the plays and sonnets grouped into the themes of Youth, Adulthood, Maturity and Death. There are...
Feature film. William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a tavern in Southwark. Shakespeare points out people who remind him of scenes from his plays. A wistful woman reminds him of Juliet,...
Fiction film. A version of Romeo and Juliet in 8 reels. Directed by John W. Noble (with likely assistance from Francis X. Bushman) with Bushman as Romeo and Beverly Bayne as Juliet.
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 1 - Joe MacFadden reads sonnet 18 ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 2 - David Walliams performs ‘In my stars I am above thee’ from Twelfth...
Feature film version of the play. Widely criticised and a commercial failure, the film was received as an interesting deconstruction or completely unintelligible according to taste. The film makes the...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s small-scale touring production of Henry VI. Part 3. Directed by Katie Mitchell with Jonathan Firth as Henry VI.
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