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Television advertisement for Barclay’s Bank made as part of the company’s Fluent in Finance campaign. Samuel L. Jackson recites some lines, an approximation of The Comedy of Errors (I, ii l260) `Upon my...
Television comedy sketch/standup show; a one-off special later developed into KATE AND TED’S SHOW. In one sketch, a satire on experimental concepts in the theatre, the Trampoline Theatre Company, recite...
Television comedy drama. A Hollywood film star is playing the lead in a New York stage production of Hamlet. While rehearsing the ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy he is stabbed in the neck with a quill. It...
BBC television comedy series. Billed as ‘an episode in the life of a laughing stock of television’. Howerd plays an out-of-work, frustrated, small part actor, desperate to secure a Shakespearean role....
Television recording of the ‘circus’ production performed live at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Centre, New York City in June 1987. This vaudeville production included circus acts from the Flying...
Television comedy sketch and music show. In one 4-minute sketch Lulu as Anne Hathaway and Les Dawson as Shakespeare enact a sketch which concludes with them singing ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ from Kiss...
American television comedy western series loosely based upon Asa Mercer’s efforts to bring civilisation to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States in the 1860s,...
A televised adaptation of Clifford Williams’ Royal Shakespeare Company stage production that was still running at the Aldwych Theatre when it was broadcast. Donald Sinden is the Duke of Ephesus, Ian...
Television comedy show hosted by Arthur Askey. This edition includes a running gag where Askey wants to prove himself a serious actor and quotes the ‘quality of mercy’ speech from The Merchant of Venice...
Television production with Michael Kitchen and Roger Daltrey doubling the roles of Antipholus and Dromio respectively. The ‘commedia dell arte style is underscored by the integration of mimes into the play.
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