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Three members of the Old Vic Theatre Company appear in scenes from Michael Benthall’s stage production of the play. Huw Wheldon presents.
A reading of an abridged version of Antony and Cleopatra, with a cast led by Vivien Leigh and Peter Finch, directed by Michael Benthall.
A reading of an abridged version of Macbeth, with a cast led by Sir Michael Redgrave and George Baker, directed by Michael Benthall.
An excerpt showing scenes from the Old Vic Theatre Company production of Cymbeline with an introduction by British theatre actress Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976).
Television programme going behind the scenes at the Old Vic theatre. The Old Vic was in its third year of a five-year project to stage all Shakespeare’s plays working from the First Folio. There are shots...
Radio broadcast. Devised and produced by John Powell, the programme assembles opinions of practitioners, critics and scholars of the theatre on the subject of staging Shakespeare. Comments from directors...
Radio programme. Extracts from plays in current production at London’s theatres; introduced by Christopher Hassall. In this episode Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in scenes from Shaw’s Caesar and...
Television drama. Sol Hurak’s presentation of the Old Vic Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet based on the stage production by Robert Helpmann. Directed for the Old Vic by Michael Benthall and by...
A 15-minute extract from the stage perfomance relayed from the Old Vic Theatre, London, and presented for television by Derek Burrell-Davis.
A sound recording of Michael Benthall’s 1954 Old Vic production with Robert Helpmann as Oberon and Moira Shearer as Titania. Mendelssohn’s incidental music is played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra...