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BBC radio comedy series. In a sketch within this episode June Whitfield (Hamlet), Jimmy Edwards (Gertrude) and Alma Cogan (Ophelia) stage Hamlet as a pantomime. Sections of the dialogue run thus: June: Now,...
Opera, ballet and pantomime are incorporated into this adaptation which is derived from a Lindsay Kemp stage production at Sadler’s Wells. Titania (The Incredible Orlando) is a drag queen; the Indian boy...
Short. Relates the growing love between an student oboist and a beautiful girl who studies at a circus theatre for deaf mutes. In one scene the boy watches the girl as the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet...
Arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. The programme contained three items - a pantomime by Jean-Louis Barrault, a dramatic sketch about Shakespeare’s youth, and a re-creation of high living among the...
An all-male production of The Merry Wives of Windsor performed by the Bremer Shakespeare Company. The stage production was filmed for German television. Directed by Pit Holzwarth with Norbert Kentrup as...
Trnka’s puppet pantomime, based on Shakespeare’s play, with dubbed-in English voices.
Feature film. Behind the scenes of a Christmas production of Hamlet. The amateur British actors include a drunk, an ex-child star, and a camp pantomime dame. Kenneth Branagh wrote and directed the film but...
Documentary. Joely Richardson looks at Shakespeare’s women examining As You Like It and Twelfth Night covering issues such as cross dressing, twins, disguise, the nature of comedy and gender. The...
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