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David Tennant talks about Hamlet, the play and the character. Tennant advises actors playing the role to "rid yourself of the baggage and tell the story". Excerpts: HAMLET (1948). d. Olivier HAMLET (1990)...
Television programme. An irreverent look at Shakespeare’s Hamlet with contributions from actors, many of them American. At one point John Sessions and Kenneth Branagh perform the ‘to be, or not to be,...
Radio anthology drama series. The drama, narrated by William Conrad, is described as ‘an analytical misrepresentation of Shakespeare’s greatest hero figure...The drama judges the play’s characters on...
Television anthology arts series. Alan Yentob presents a documentary about three actors who are preparing to play Hamlet. Welsh actor Wayne Cater is directed by Michael Bogdanov for the Wales Theatre...
A thirteen-part television series, presented by Richard Ouzounian, on the history of the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Episode 11 looks at the various productions of Hamlet through Stratford’s...
In a short skit towards the end of this episode of the classic comedy sketch show, Ronnie Barker stars as a forgetful actor who manages to jumble up all the lines from Hamlet’s famous ‘To be or not to...
US interview show. Jude Law talks to Charlie Rose about his performance as Hamlet. The show, directed by Michael Grandage, transferred to Broadway from the Donmar Theatre, London. The programme begins with...
Radio programme presented by Jenni Murray. In this edition Professor Tony Howard and Kathryn Hunter talk to Jenni Murray about women who have played the role of Hamlet. Tony Howard talks about HAMLET and...
Documentary. Actors who have played Hamlet, or appeared in productions of the play, speak about the role they have inhabited. Contributors include Simon Russell Beale, Philip Franks, Anton Lesser, Adrian...
In anticipation of his own stage Hamlet in 2011, Michael Sheen looks back at the rich archive of Hamlets from the theatre, cinema and radio archives, starting with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1908 and...
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