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Harriet Walter reads an amended version of her contribution to the book Performing Shakespeare. This was the version intended by Walter for publication; the published book used an earlier, edited, verbatim...
Porn film. An adaptation of Macbeth set in a castle in Budapest. Courtney Lehman (op cit) makes a case for the film being ‘a surprisingly faithful adaptation’ , offering a ‘provocative example of the...
Russian version of Much Ado About Nothing incorporating ballet and dance. Courtney Lehmann (op cit) writes: ‘This film is a curious hybrid that includes classical ballet interludes, a narrator figure who...
An exploration of Shakespeare’s most famous character Hamlet, introduced by Sir John Gielgud with excerpts from the screen interpretations of Laurence Olivier, John Barrymore, Nicol Williamson, Maximilian...
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)...
Latin American exploitation film loosely based on Macbeth and set in Venezuela at the turn of the 20th century. Maximiliano (Alvarado) is a good man who has fallen in with a bandit clan. But after three...
An anthology in words and music of Shakespeare’s writings about love. The songs by Purcell, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Sullivan, Poulenc and Cecilia McDowall are performed by soprano Gillian Humphreys, with...
Fiction short written and directed by Aaron Hendren. No information on content known (4/2008).
Verdi’s Macbeth recorded in New York in 2014 and staged by Adrian Noble in the second revival of his 2007 production. Zeljiko Lucic and Anna Netrebko are the Macbeths. The Chorus and Orchestra of the New...
Feature film. A gangsta version of Macbeth which was not given a commercial release. The reasons may be obvious - ‘searching for a plot to justify its creation, Salman pilfers from the play to structure...
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