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Animation. Part of the animated series starring Colonel Heeza Liar, a teller of tall tales. The series was shown as part of Bray’s Paramount Pictorial screen magazine. In this edition the Colonel is...
Short. Lady Macbeth summons up her demons in the soliloquy from Act I, Scene V.
Syndicated television detective drama series. In this episode, during the German occupation of France, Colonel Kurt Schmidt, a Nazi, extorts a First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, from a French...
A re-imagining of Julius Caesar Act I, sc. ii with Tony Osoba as Caesar and Mark Stanley as Brutus. The video is part of a series of films commissioned by the British Council throughout 2016.
Feature film. A parable set in a fictitious West African country rent by 10 years of tribal conflict between the ruling Nayak and the rebel Bonande. The director has stated that she saw Shakespearean...
US variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. Includes a brief routine from comedian Sammy Shore who imitates Elvis Presley acting Shakespeare. [Sadly, no further information known (5/2007)].
In this contemporary re-working of King Lear a home for the elderly is the domain of the titular monarch. Having obtained the Power of Attorney to manage his affairs, Lear’s daughters are ecstatic and have...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of a play reading of Leo Butler’s play One of These Days, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company for The Complete Works Festival. A dark love story,...
Feature film. A French-Spanish derivative of Othello set in the late 1970s in which Othello is cast as a mercenary soldier fighting in Africa. Courtney Lehmann in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (op cit)...
Feature film. Theological thriller in which some critics have seen parallels with Hamlet in its theme of madness. In a gothic castle called Center 18, the US military attempts to establish whether a group...
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