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Programme in the Open University Culture and Belief in Europe 1450-1600 course. Using extracts from two different productions actors Jeremy Irons and Michael Cronin, and director David Giles, discuss how the...
A performance of King Lear, which was produced for the Open University in 1998, with Frances Barber, David Morrissey and Philip Madoc.
A programme for the Open University Culture and Belief in Europe 1450-1600 course. Actors Jeremy Irons and Michael Pennington and director David Giles show how, through rehearsals, the complex role of...
The personal father-son relationship between Prince Hal and Henry is examined to see how it illuminates the larger historical issues of the play. Prince Hal is played by Michael Thomas and Henry by Peter...
Two programmes relating to the Open University course AA306: Shakespeare: Text and Performance. 1) Designing Rome and Egypt: examines the contribution of sets and costumes to an interpretation of a play....
Continuing from KING LEAR: WORKSHOP 1, this programme looks in great detail at Act IV vi - the storm scene - and at Lear’s re-encounter with the blind Gloucester. Director John Russell-Brown and Julian...
The first of two programmes on King Lear supporting the A306 Shakespeare course. Considers how an actor can convey Lear’s madness and at the same time be aware of the ‘reason in madness’ so central to...
A television production of Act IV of The Tempest - the masque scene. Using the devices and effects of television, it aims to represent the sense of magic perhaps perceived by earlier audiences.
A specially recorded performance of Othello. Tape 1: Acts 1 to II iii. Tape 2: Act III Scene i to the end. No details of cast known (1/2009).
Examines how the comic exchanges between Falstaff and Prince Hal illuminate the serious historical and political themes of the play. Director John Russell Brown is shown working through some famous scenes...