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A three-part series which spoofs Shakespeare’s plays in a modern setting. The first episode series includes the sketches ‘Taming of the Bitch’ - a marriage counsellor helps a young couple overcome...
Radio series offering conversation, comedy and music with Clive Anderson at the Edinburgh Festival. Clive speaks to Simon Callow about his one-man comedy play ‘Shakespeare - Man of Stratford’ and...
British comedy sketch programme in which Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis satirise the week’s news in stand-up, sketches and songs. This episode’s concern with defining social groups briefly considers the...
29 of Shakespeare’s sonnets delivered by four young people (collectively and individually) in pastoral settingsas well as at the breakfast table, over the telephone, and as a stand-up comedy routine....
A one-act take on Hamlet in the stand-up comedy genre, The boy/man, accompanied by dog Horatio and his air guitar, turns up in a dream/nightmare world. The original text becomes an amalgam of The Simpsons,...
Radio broadcast. Matt Lucas explores Shakespeare’s comedies and examines whether they have an influence on current humour. Today we interpret comedy from a different perspective than 400 years ago - comedy...
Comedian Tony Hancock performing in sketches at the Royal Festival Hall, London. In one sketch (c. 5mins) Hancock appears as Lear with Joe Ritchie as the Fool, both in cod Elizabethan costume (mid-way...
Feature film. Black comedy version of Macbeth set in a 1970s Pennsylvania fast food burger stand. White trash Pat and Mac murder the owner, Norm, and establish a modern McDonald’s. The blood on Lady...
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...
Advertisement for Bell Atlantic. Theatre-goers are going to see James Earl Jones as Othello. As they take their seats Othello is seen on stage, back to the audience, wearing a large Darth Vader-like cloak....
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