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A discussion of the life and times of the 17th Century Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu who has been dubbed the Shakespeare of the East.
The filmed lectures by Ou Jian-Ping include the following clips: Sylvie Guillem, Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Paloma Herrera in versions of Romeo and Juliet. Desmond Richardson as...
News item. Shakespeare is being performed in China again after 10 years of exile during the cultural revolution. Chinese audiences are flocking to see King Lear (Li-Ya Wang) portrayed as a Chinese warlord....
Animation students from Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London created a series of short films exploring Shakespeare through animation made for a Royal Shakespeare Company exhibition...
Video recording of Richard III staged at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre as part of the Globe to Globe season. Performed by the National Theatre of China from Beijing and spoken in Mandarin. Zhang Dongyu in...
Radio series in five parts. Writers from Sierra Leone, Brazil, India, Iran and China explain why a playwright from sixteenth century Stratford resonates so powerfully in their own countries. In the last...
Independent feature film. Set in New York’s Lower East Side, a reworking of Romeo and Juliet and updating of WEST SIDE STORY using rock music. The interracial love affair between an Italian boy and a...
Video recording of a stage performance of Hamlet given at the Beijing People’s Arts Theatre. ‘Lin Zhaohua adopted a radical approach in staging his Hamlet in Beijing by abandoning the orthodox "Western...
Chinese writer and actress Tsai Chin talks about her life in Shanghai, London and New York and her return to China to direct a production of The Tempest. Includes a brief extract from the production (in...
Christopher Adams interviews the cast of the New Theatre’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" during their tour of China.
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