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A report that over the past 40 years the Royal Shakespeare Company has established itself as one of Britain’s greatest theatrical institutions. But recently critics have accused the Company of bad...
Current affairs series. This edition includes a short sequence in which presenter Fran Morrison reports from the Barbican, London, where actress Jenny Agutter is playing four different roles in a season with...
A personal introduction to the play and its qualities by Sara Kestelman, who played Lady Macbeth in the 1983 Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Barbican, London.
Television documentary exploring the character of Hamlet with contributions from actors who have played the role. In 1998 Ninagawa staged a production of Hamlet in Japanese; in 2004 it was staged (in...
Radio programme on the week’s cultural events. In a ten-minute review, presenter Tom Sutcliffe discusses Gregory Doran’s musical version of The Merry Wives of Windsor, staged at Stratford-upon-Avon for...
Video recording of the Mokwha Repertory Company’s 2005 production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Oh Tae-suk which employs martial arts, live music, dance, ritual and gesture. Oh Tae-suk directs his actors...
Radio broadcast. In the second part of the programme, Tom Service presents a concert featuring Sibelius’s two orchestral suites for The Tempest performed in the context of performances of scenes from...
Video recording using a single, fixed, camera of the 1984 Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Directed by Barry Kyle with Kenneth Branagh as the King of Navarre and Josette...
In part 2 theatre and opera director Peter Sellars works with a multi-racial cast on his new production of The Merchant of Venice, in which Venice becomes Venice Beach, LA and Belmont is transformed into Bel...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1981 production of All’s Well That Ends Well. Directed by Trevor Nunn with Peggy Ashcroft as the Countess.
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