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An advertisement for Pizza Hut and their ‘stuffed crust pizza’. Peter O’Toole on stage (at an audition?) reciting "to be or not to be that is the question/Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer"....
An advertisement for the National Lottery. Lear speaks over Cordelia’s dead body (V iii l3450-3, ` A Plague upon you...Cordelia) and then another character runs on shouting that he has won the lottery -...
60-Second Shakespeare is a BBC project to encourage UK students to create their own 60-second interpretations of Shakespeare using audio, video, animation and IT skills. This film is presented as a trailer...
Cinema advertisement for Kia Ora orange juice. The thirst audiences had for fresh oranges in an Elizabethan theatre is compared to contemporary cinema-goers and boxes of fresh Kia Ora juice. An Elizabethan...
An obscure, early, and short-lived US sitcom set in a Hollywood boarding house, home to an assortment of theatricals. In episode 6, Shakespeare (Pucci) is writing a 20 second radio commercial that is due to...
US variety series. This episode includes a sketch on what commercials might look like if they were written by some of the great authors: William Shakespeare (`Macbath’), William Faulkner (`A detergent...
An advertisement introducing McDonalds new LT hamburger by paraphrasing lines from Romeo and Juliet. Star-crossed lovers glance across a crowded room. The announcer explain ‘it’s just not good when those...
Television advertisement for Carling Black Label lager. Hamlet, in Elizabethan dress, and holding Yorick’s skull on stage recites ‘Alas, poor Yorick/I knew him’. He drops the skull to gasps from the...
A television advertisement for Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut breakfast cereal. The following lines, a pastiche of John of Gaunt’s speech in Richard II, are read over Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1...
Sketch comedy web series. William Shakespeare (a starving artist before his big career takes off) finds himself writing entertainment business schlock just to keep himself afloat and his nagging wife happy....
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