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Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Stephanie Kline looks at the life of Henry Carey.
Feature film. Adaptation of Macbeth filmed in Faux Cap, Madagascar and acted (largely improvised) by Antroyds, a local tribe of fishermen.
Video recording of the modern-dress production by the Almeida Theatre Company. Directed for stage by Jonathan Kent with Ralph Fiennes as Coriolanus.
A post-colonial version of Othello transposed to a remote Madagascan fishing village. Abela condenses the action into five characters and little is spoken. Souli (Makena) is a poet, only writing for himself....
Feature film. The narrative is told in flashback. Jack Noah (Dreyfuss) is a fairly successful stage and film actor on a location shoot in the English-speaking Parador. He’s given an offer he can’t refuse...
Independent thriller. Chicago cabbie Mitch Lawrence (Lowe) has a failing acting career and a pregnant and unemployed wife. When one of his clients, author Lou Webber (Mantegna), offers him money to eliminate...
Feature film. Richard Burton portrays Edwin Booth, the 19th century American actor. Booth is helped to success by his wife, Mary. When his brother, John Wilkes, assassinates President Lincoln, Edwin faces...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1995 production of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Gale Edwards with Josie Lawrence as Katherine and Michael Siberry...
Feature film. Great Britain’s first feature-length Shakespeare sound film and Laurence Olivier’s first screen performance in a Shakespeare play. An energetic production set in an elaborate studio forest...
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