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Series in which an actor explores a work by Shakespeare, revealing a personal connection to the work and how it has shaped them professionally. They investigate how their chosen play was written, as well as...
A programme of words and music conceived and written by David William. Four actors alternate in their portrayal of several historical figures including George Bernard Shaw, Voltaire, Virginia Woolf, Berlioz,...
Television documentary. Eight years after completing WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO + JULIET, director Baz Luhrmann challenges a group of young and mainly black people to come up with their vision of the...
Radio series about private detective Sam Spade, a character created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Maltese Falcon. A psychiatrist named Doctor Denoff comes to Spade (Howard Duff) when a blackmailer...
Jeremy Irons discusses Henry IV Parts I & II. Excerpts: HENRY V (1944). d. Olivier. HENRY IV. Parts I & II (BBC, 1979). d. David Giles. HENRY IV. Parts I & II (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, 2010). d....
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)...
Derek Jacobi discusses Richard II. Jacobi comments on his own interpretation of Richard in the BBC Television Shakespeare series and states at the end of the programme that knowing what he knows about the...
Documentary. Ethan Hawke presents a documentary on Macbeth. Excerpts: MACBETH (CBC, 1962) d. Paul Almond. MACBETH (1971) d. Polanski. MACBETH (2001) d. Doran. MACBETH (2010) d. Goold. There is also a...
Trevor Nunn discusses The Tempest and considers how much of Shakespeare’s last play is autobiographical. Excerpts: THE TEMPEST (1908). d. Percy Stow FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) d. Fred Wilcox THE TEMPEST...
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