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Five-part television series for schools, presented by Mike Hall, which shows the preparation for a production of Twelfth Night. Episode 4 looks at pacing; not the actual speed at which things happen, but the...
Five-part television series for schools, presented by Mike Hall, which shows the preparation for a production of Twelfth Night. In episode 3 actors perform exercises to develop movements which suggest a...
Radio broadcast. Devised and produced by John Powell, the programme assembles opinions of practitioners, critics and scholars of the theatre on the subject of staging Shakespeare. Comments from directors...
A BBC topical arts magazine series. This episode is devoted to the work of Peter Brook. Includes a long interview with Brook by James Mossman in which Brook talks about his production for the RSC of A...
Film which follows actor, producer and director John Houseman as he rehearses The Acting Company, the repertory company he established in 1972, in a production of King Lear. The actors are mainly graduates...
Documentary about the working methods of Japanese theatre director, Tadashi Suzuki. Suzuki incorporates his technique and methodology in an Australian workshop and training session in preparation for the...
Programme in the Open University Culture and Belief in Europe 1450-1600 course. Using extracts from two different productions actors Jeremy Irons and Michael Cronin, and director David Giles, discuss how the...
A National Theatre production of Henry IV parts 1 and II opened in the Olivier Theatre, May 2005. The programme is a fly-on-the-wall account of one day’s rehearsals. The play’s director, Nicholas Hynter,...
Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. In his review of Nigel Playfair’s revival of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Haddons praises director William...
Documentary. Follows four weeks of rehearsal as Derek Jacobi directs Kenneth Branagh in the lead role in the Renaissance Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet. The actors describe stage action and the...
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