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Shakespeare’s The Tempest, adapted for radio by David Hunter. With Philip Madoc as Prospero and Nina Wadia as Ariel. The play is introduced by Richard Eyre. With music by Billy Cowie.
Documentary. Twenty male inmates of the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in La Grange, Kentucky form an acting troupe and perform The Tempest. The film follows the inmates through a 40-week rehearsal...
Television production starring Michael Hordern as Prospero.
Science fiction story with a plot derived from The Tempest. In the year 2257, a distant star has three inhabitants - Professor Morbius (Prospero), his daughter Altaira (Miranda), and Robby the Robot (Ariel)....
Feature film. The story of how speech therapist Lionel Logue (Rush) worked with Albert, Duke of York, later George VI (Firth) to modify his stammer and give him confidence in public speaking. The film...
Television production with Anton Lesser as Troilus and Suzanne Burden as Cressida. Blind artist Jack Birkett aka The Incredible Orlando (who also played Caliban in Derek Jarman THE TEMPEST) as Thersites.
Feature film based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Prospero is given 24 books to lessen the pain of his exile on a barren island. Greenaway interprets The Tempest as a mind reviewing its entire contents, and...
Feature film. Haunting and unsparing in the realism, Polanski’s unique and pessimistic vision confronts both the dark comic elements and terror of the play’s violence. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis are...
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