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Television arts and entertainment magazine series. Includes a three-minute item on Adrian Noble’s production of The Winter’s Tale for the Royal Shakespeare Company including an extract from IV ii with...
Video recording of Clowns de Shakespeare performing Richard III.
Feature film. A recording of Fred Dunlop’s 1966 ‘Pop Theatre’ Edinburgh Festival production. Inadequately lit, poor colour, indifferent and over-emphatic performances, and a cinematic technique...
Fiction short. A version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Audio podcast. An irreverent and often rude look at Shakespeare, hosted by actor-directors Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson. This edition looks at the fools and clown in his plays and how they are...
Video in which Dr Katrina Marchant looks at the life and career of William Kempe, a celebrated comic actor who originated several of Shakespeare’s characters on the stage.
An experimental and impressionistic film which records the thoughts of a drowning actor. In one scene, the young man (dressed in the make-up and costume of a clown) performs as Hamlet to the approval of the...
Hamlet stumbles upon the tragedy of Ophelia’s funeral.
Radio drama. An adaptation, by Michael Frayn, of Anton Chekhov’s one-act play. An elderly actor, having given his final and benefit performance, falls asleep drunk in the theatre. He wakes up, still in his...
A burlesgue featuring Pimple, a clown-like figure played by Fred Evans. No synopsis of the film is available but the title suggests a parody.
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