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A one-off special comedy sketch television programme. The episode included a take on the final scene in Othello with Frankie Howerd and Cilla Black.
Travelogue. English life in Autumn, Winter and Spring. Includes sequences from the Old Vic production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with comedian Frankie Howerd as Bottom at the play rehearsal and Titania...
Music/comedy series presented by and starring Cilla Black. The show includes a comedy sketch on Romeo and Juliet written by Talbot Rothwell (screenplay writer of the Carry On films, many of which starred...
BBC television comedy series. Billed as ‘an episode in the life of a laughing stock of television’. Howerd plays an out-of-work, frustrated, small part actor, desperate to secure a Shakespearean role....
Musical drama. The fortunes of some of the students at Manhattan’s High School for the Performing Arts. During the auditions at the beginning of the film, several students recite Shakespeare; one delivers...
Radio version of the play arranged and produced for broadcasting by Raymond Raikes. With Frankie Howerd as Launce and Perlita Neilson as Julia. The music is composed by Anthony Bernard who also conducts the...
US sitcom, created by Linwood Boomer, starring Frankie Muniz as Malcolm, the third-oldest of four, later five, children in the family. The show’s early seasons centered on Malcolm and the rigours of being...
Six actresses, including performers with disabilities, each present their portrayal of Shakespeare’s tragic heroine. They take to the stage at London’s Barbican Theatre.
STAR CROSS’D is poet, writer and illustrator Laura Dockrill’s contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet. The film is set on a windswept English beach, where ‘two houses, both alike in common crime’ wage...
Radio programme on English bawdy presented by Tim Brooke-Taylor. Celebrates the history of bawdy from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Benny Hill and the ‘Carry On’ films. It asks what do Shakespeare and...
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