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Radio broadcast. Presenter Jane Little interviews the Jewish playwright Julia Pascal about her adaptation of The Merchant of Venice at the Arcola Theatre in London. In Pascal’s version, holocaust survivor...
A musical grotesquerie based on the legend of King Lear. King Real lives in a nuclear submobile in which outrageous and horrific scenes of black comedy build up. A power struggle between the King and his...
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Paul Allen is joined by Jonathan Miller and Henry Goodman to discuss The Merchant of Venice, arguably the play that has been most changed by history. Since the Holocaust the...
Last episode of a five-part schools programme series that attempts to make Shakespeare accessible to children by having well-known actors comment on and perform key scenes from Shakespeare’s plays which...
Stage video recording of Julia Pascal’s re-working of King Lear. Set in New York in the late 1930s, a once-famous Yiddish actress gives her theatre business over to her three daughters. In the first...
A personal view of the play presented by Wolf Mankowitz. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by...
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