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Fiction film comedy. Wiggins takes Mabel to the theatre, where they snub Freddy. Mabel flirts with the actor playing Hamlet and she joins him for a soda at the drug store. Wiggins and the actor are both...
British Pathe newsfilm item. Preparations for, and scenes from, a production of Macbeth at the Minack Cliff Theatre, an open-air theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall which opened in 1932. Includes shots of the...
Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. In this edition he looks at the rivalry between Irish-English actor Charles Macready and American actor Edwin Forrest and...
5-part radio serial in which actor Timothy West reads excerpts from his letters, written over the course of 30 years as a touring actor, to his wife, Prunella Scales. In this episode, Timothy West reflects...
Television arts documentary. When Ian McKellen joined the National Theatre in 1984, he was asked by The South Bank Show to keep an audiotape diary of his experiences as an actor over the next twelve months....
Short. Drama set in a provincial repertory theatre where a production of Macbeth is taking place.
Professor Glynne Wickham looks at the latest proposals to reconstruct Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre near its original site in Southwark, examining the historical evidence for the construction of theatres in...
Promotional DVD to raise donations for the building of the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon. Artistic Director Michael Boyd and Executive Director Vikki Heywood speak of their vision for...
Feature film. An English multicultural theatre company in contemporary New Delhi is staging a Kathakali production of Othello. The director (Abel) unconventionally casts an inexperienced small town actor...
Independent feature film. A community theatre production of Hamlet is set to open when the production loses its lead actor. The company then, unknowingly, brings in a madman actor, who is convinced he...
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