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Peter Brook talks to Paul Allen about his production of The Tempest performed in French with a multicultural cast. Brook speaks of his methods of directing.
Television current affairs series. Includes an item (c 9min) in which Fran Morrison reports on London’s National Theatre production of Measure for Measure, directed by Michael Rudman, which is set in the...
Radio programme. Millicent Isherwood, producing a Shakespeare play in Bradford with a multi-racial cast had first to anwer the question "Please miss, what is a play?".
US talk show. Morgan Freeman, Gloria Foster and Joseph Papp are interviewed by Phyliss Haynes and Mary Helen McPhillips about the Black Hispanic Shakespeare Company - its non-traditional casting, audience...
US television documentary. When in 2003 the fledgling American Shakespeare Theatre Company took a contemporary production of Hamlet with a raceblind and genderblind cast on tour in Taiwan, filmmaker Mark P....
Radio adaptation of the play produced and directed by Gaynor McFarlane with a contemporary twist. The multicultural cast includes poet Benjamin Zephaniah as Gower. Tom Mannion plays Pericles and Helen...
Feature film version of Othello. The production focuses strongly on the intraracial hatred, a concept seen in casting choices and textual cuts. Afro-Americans play Othello, Emilia and Iago.
Documentary. 70 young people from various ethnic backgrounds in the youth theatre Hoflplein perform together in Verdi’s Macbeth.
Video recording using a single camera (wide shot) of a rehearsal for a production of King Lear by the Talawa Theatre Company at the Cochrane Theatre, London. Ben Thomas is Lear.
Feature film. An English multicultural theatre company in contemporary New Delhi is staging a Kathakali production of Othello. The director (Abel) unconventionally casts an inexperienced small town actor...
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