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Sound recording. Actor Geoffrey Hutchings delivers The Shakespeare Lecture at the 1984 Cheltenham Literary Festival. From Cheltenham Town Hall.
Ten-part series in which John Evans talks to distinguished interpreters of Britten’s operas about recordings and performances with which they are closely associated. In episode 8 Sir Peter Hall talks about...
Radio broadcast of speeches held by John Dover Wilson on ‘The Immortal Memory’, Philip Ben Greet on ‘The Drama’, and responded to by Lilian Baylis during Shakespeare’s birthday celebrations....
Comedy short. An unemployed actor offers a stagestruck young woman and her family acting lessons in exchange for free board and lodging. They attempt a performance of Othello at the town hall which turns out...
Comedy short. Part of the Bumptious series which featured the rotund and aptly named comedian John R. Cumpson. Bumptious organises an amateur production at the town hall of Romeo and Juliet in which he is to...
Radio broadcast of speeches made at the Town Hall in Stratford-upon-Avon to mark Shakespeare’s birthday. Alanson B. Houghton, the American Ambassador, talks about ‘The Immortal Memory of William...
Single camera recording of an open-air production of Shakespeare’s comedy, adapted and directed by Quinn Rol, a benefit performance for the Burlington High School Drama Club. The cast features: Tenzin...
An audio recording of Benjamin Britten’s operatic version of the play. Bejun Mehta (Oberon), Íride Martínez (Tytania), Jack Morlen (Puck), Timothy Robinson (Lysander), Jared Holt (Demetrius), Tove...
Feature film. Set in 1930s Harlem, Lem Anderson (Frank Wilson) is a vaudeville actor who aspires to performing Shakespeare. One evening after a show he witnesses a notorious gangster’s murder. The...
Recording of Benjamin Britten’s opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, made in Walthamstow Town Hall, London. The London Symphony Orchestra, the Downside School Choir and the Emanuel School Choir, Wandsworth...
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