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Television production of Edward Bond’s stage play. Set in 1615 it shows an aged and weary Shakespeare in retirement in Stratford. He is disillusioned, pondering on life and fame and seeing nothing but...
An experimental play conceived, adapted and directed by Bill Rauch. Euripides’, Shakespeare’s, and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classics of populist theatre are performed on one stage simultaneously,...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1995 production of Edward Bond’s speculative and post-Brechtian biographical drama. Directed by David Thacker with Paul...
Video recording of Jonathan Miller’s 1989 production of King Lear for the Old Vic with Eric Porter in the title role.
Video recording of the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival’s 2016 staging of Macbeth directed by Antoni Cimolini. Ian Lake is Macbeth.
Radio series in which contemporary writers reflect on the theme of Jaques’s ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech in the form of dramatic monologues. The last episode is a repeat broadcast of a play for one...
Sound recording of the Old Vic Company’s 1952-53 stage production of Macbeth with Alec Guinness and Pamela Brown as the Macbeths.
Feature film with a plot inspired by King Lear. A self-respecting wise old man decides to divide his property among his family. He settles down with his youngest son and soon realises that without his wealth...
Video recording of Ong Ken Sen’s Lear Dreaming. The story is set in the context of King Lear’s sleep of death, as he reminisces on the folly of his ways which led him to lose his kingdom to his daughter.
Feature film musical about the efforts of London’s Windmill Theatre to stay open during the Blitz. In one scene in an officers’ mess a notice-board announces ‘By permission of Group Captain G. Homesby,...
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