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Video recording of the modern-dress production by the Almeida Theatre Company. Directed for stage by Jonathan Kent with Ralph Fiennes as Coriolanus.
Full cast audio comedy series about an organisation that helps people disappear. In this episode, members of the RSC in a production of Hamlet, forced to stay in character throughout, get in touch with the...
Morris Schreiber discusses Shakespeare’s art, characterisation, depth, themes, language, and significance for contemporary times.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2004 production of Macbeth. Directed by Dominic Cooke with Greg Hicks and Ruth Gemmell as the Macbeths.
Edwin Burr Pettet from Brandeis University discusses styles of acting and parodies Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy as it might have been delivered by Alleyn, Garrick, Kemble, Irving, Leslie...
Comedian Lenny Henry and director Barrie Rutter talk about studying just 14 lines of Othello, and Peter Kirwan speaks on his year seeing every production in the RSC’s Complete Works Season.
Neil Aldrich recites Shakespeare’s sonnets, and other works, speculating about the recitative convention employed in the 17th century. The delivery is rap-like, very different from the performance norm....
Second in a series of 30-minute broadcasts showcasing scenes from Shakespeare’s plays performed by leading actors of the time. This episode focuses on three history plays, Henry V, Henry IV, Part 1 and...
Radio schools broadcast. The second story in the ten-part history series by Rhoda Power features an imaginary account of Shakespeare’s childhood intended for 13-14 year old schoolchildren.
An adaptation of Romeo and Juliet radically interpreting the text, while preserving the verse. Set in a futuristic Verona, the film uses shock cuts, speeded-up trick motion, and a rock music score. Leonardo...
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