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Radio programme on Shakespeare’s dramatic use of contemporary music and songs. Alec Guinness, who presents the programme, is supported by the Dolmetsch Consort of Viols and Recorders, and players,...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 production of The Tempest. Directed by Sam Mendes with Alec McCowen as Prospero and Simon Russell Beale as Ariel.
Television documentary. An impressive line-up of actors and actresses relate the history of the Old Vic theatre company including Tyrone Guthrie, Tommy Steele, Ninette de Valois and John Neville. There is...
Radio production of the play adapted and produced by Barbara Burnham. With Leslie Howard in the title role.
Full radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V produced and directed by Martin Jenkins. John Gielgud acts as Chorus and John Rowe plays the title role. With music composed by David Cain and performed by...
Independent and self-funded documentary. Actors/directors Dan Poole and Giles Terera travel the world asking actors, directors, students and the public about their experiences of Shakespeare.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1990 production of Richard II. Directed by Ron Daniels with Alex Jennings as Richard.
Feature film version of the play. ‘Building on Olivier’s extraordinary stage creation, the film asks less what the cinema can do for the theatre (as with HENRY V and HAMLET) than what the theatre can...
What makes this ‘gloriously watchable, now as then, is Oliver’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, bruttish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly...
Television production with David Gwillim in the title role.
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