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Regional television news item. Black actor Don Warrington is playing Mark Antony at the Nottingham Playhouse. The MACE catalogue entry states this is the first time a black actor has played the role. There...
Stage to screen film of the Talawa Theatre Company’s production of King Lear staged at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in 2016. Don Warrington is Lear. Directed for stage by Michael Buffong and for screen...
Commercial for Beck’s Beer as part of the ‘What Germans Do Best’ campaign. The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in German in Expressionist style; the set is black and white with a...
Video recording of Timothy Douglas’ 2009 production of Much Ado About Nothing with Howard W. Overshown as Benedick and Rachel Leslie as Beatrice. Videotaped for WAPAVA by George Karseboom.
Arts documentary. With five major productions taking place in 2016, the film looks at why King Lear resonates so deeply with contemporary audiences. Don Warrington, Antony Sher, Timothy West, Michael...
Feature film. Set in 1930s Harlem, Lem Anderson (Frank Wilson) is a vaudeville actor who aspires to performing Shakespeare. One evening after a show he witnesses a notorious gangster’s murder. The...
Audio podcast. Episode six of an all-black radio serialisation of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, , set at Howard University in the 1930’s. Episode scripts were adapted and produced by Catherine...
A musical version of Romeo and Juliet conceived for stage and filmed for French television. Choreographed by Redha and directed for television by Gilles Amado. Music and lyrics by Gerard Presgurvic.
Audio podcast. An omnibus edition of the seven-part all-black radio serialisation of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, set at Howard University in the 1930’s. Episode scripts were adapted and...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2002 production of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Gregory Doran. Harriet Walter is Beatrice and Nicholas Le Prevost is...
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