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Verdi’s opera presented live from the Coliseum in London in a translation by Amanda Holden. The Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera are conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. Alan Opie is Falstaff....
Television arts documentary series presented by Melvyn Bragg. The episode includes interviews with Harold Bloom on why Shakespeare invented human nature, Kenneth Branagh on romantic love and his new film...
Comedy drama series set on a housing estate in the Black Country in the mid-1970s. Doug Digby (Conley) is a PE teacher with a sadistic streak. He divides his time between making his pupils miserable. and...
Shakespeare’s story told through the camera of a documentary film-maker.
Video recording of the touring production which used amateur actors playing the Mechanicals. A co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and amateur companies across the UK and directed by Erica...
A biography of Shakespeare. Details the major themes in his life and the development of his career in the London theatre. Includes readings by Germaine Greer and Edward Petherbridge of several sonnets and...
Television polemic. Russell Davies questions Laurence Olivier’s position as the pre-eminent Shakespearean actor, arguing that his performances are all show and no substance. This belief is compromised by...
A greatly simplified re-telling of the Romeo and Juliet story with a happy ending. In the mountains of Thailand, two young monkeys from rival factions fall in love. The film narrates (Tim Hopper), through...
Recording of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre 2018 production of The Winter’s Tale directed by Blanche McIntyre. With Zora Bishop, Will Keen and Annette Badland. Directed for the screen by Ian Russell.
Video recording of a stage production of Twelfth Night with Illyria transposed to the coast of Brazil in the 1840s, the set suggesting a tropical island as it might have been imagined by Henri Rousseau....
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