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Television documentary first shown on the digital Community Channel. Documentary recording the life of Ira Aldridge, a 19th-century black American Shakespearean actor who also worked in Britain, taking his...
After her marriage fails, a woman returns to her home district, the Bronx, to pursue her dream of becoming a Shakespearean actor. A surprising journey of self-discovery ensues.
Musical comedy. A Shakespeare professor secretly works as a burlesque comedian during the summer. He maintains his secret until a stripper shows up and threatens to tell his secret unless he gives her a...
American sitcom. Derek Jacobi guest stars as an over-the-hill actor (Jackson Headley) whose career is now typecast playing Tobor (robot spelt backwards), an android character in a television series ‘Space...
Twenty-six part series on literature and literary analysis designed for college and high school classes and presented by Fran Dorn. Episode 19 uses Hamlet to illustrate the development of dramatic character...
Comedy short. An exhausted Shakespearean actor, on holiday in an isolated ranch in Arizona, is forced to put on an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet awakens in her tomb and sings ‘O Bury Me...
Documentary. Naturist film incorporated into a travelogue about the Cornish countryside. Features footage of actor Stuart Samuels rehearsing for a production of Hamlet at the Minack open-air theatre in...
Video recording of the National Theatre, London’s 2005 production of Theatre of Blood directed by Phelim McDermott with Jim Broadbent as Edward Lionheart. A stage adaptation of the 1973 Douglas Hickox film...
Radio drama anthology series. The story, written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, tells of an old Shakespearean actor, Rambeau Bainbridge (Chappell), who specialises in playing Romeo. He has the habit of...
Radio sitcom. Edwin Montague plays Monty Woolley, an accomplished Shakespearean actor who, unappreciated and unemployed, accepts a role in a sentimental daytime radio serial. In this episode, Monty’s...
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