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The radio talk focuses on Shakespeare and the amateur stage and is given by W. Nugent Monk, who was at the time owner-producer-manager of the Maddermarket Theatre, a theatre with an amateur company, in Norwich.
Radio programme about amateur theatre in which excerpts from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are performed by members of the Board of Education Co-operative Theatre.
A burlesque involving amateur theatricals. No further information known of the Shakespeare connection beyond the title.
Video. Recording of a conversation hosted by Professor Michael Dobson on non-professional drama groups with Pauline Scott of the Brownsea Island Open Air Theatre and Ian Wainwright of the Royal Shakespeare...
Video recording of the touring production which used amateur actors playing the Mechanicals. A co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and amateur companies across the UK and directed by Erica...
Radio programme comprised of a performance of scenes from Twelfth Night (I, v, and II, iii) by the Amateur Players’ Company and music related to the play. Alexander McKenzie’s ‘Overture’ to his...
Amateur film showing scenes from King Lear performed in the Speech Room at Harrow School in 1956, under the supervision of Ronald Watkins.
Radio documentary on the history of the Derby Shakespeare Company, an amateur theatre company founded in 1908. Presenter Andy Potter traces the company’s links to Cornwall, explores the Alan Bates legacy,...
Talent contest to find the best amateur dramatics company from among the UK’s c3,500 groups offering the winning troupe the chance to perform at the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End. The four remaining...
Comedy short. Part of the Bumptious series which featured the rotund and aptly named comedian John R. Cumpson. Bumptious organises an amateur production at the town hall of Romeo and Juliet in which he is to...
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