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Paul Scofield (2008 Television)

Series

Arena

Director

David Thompson

Producer

Rosemary Tratt

Television documentary celebrating the work of Paul Scofield. Includes footage of Scofield on tour in Romania with the RSC production of King Lear directed by Peter Brook in 1964. Shots of the cast getting...

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Peter Whitehead and the Sixties (2007)

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £14.99

Filmmaker Peter Whitehead was at the heart of Swinging London, chronicling the youth explosion, the burgeoning popular music scene and the counterculture of the 1960s. Two of his films are now released for...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream: What to Make of Magic, A (1998 Video)

Series

Staging Dreams: Casting and Interpreting Shakespeare

Educational videotape. What do fairies look like? How can magic be staged meaningfully in modern theatre? The programme presents scenes from several filmed versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that show...

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Muse of Fire, A (1984 Television)

Series

All the World’s a Stage

Producer

Harry Hastings

13-part television documentary series on the history of theatre, written and presented by Ronald Harwood. Episode 5, A MUSE OF FIRE, looks at the roots and background to Shakespeare’s theatre. Includes...

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King Lear (1964 Audio)

Director

Peter Brook

Live audio recording of Peter Brook’s production of King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Paul Scofield in the title role.

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Midsummer Night’s Dream a (1972 Audio)

Director

Peter Brook

A live sound recording of Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Alan Howard as Theseus/Oberon and Sara Kestelman as Hippolyta/Titania.

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King Lear (1987 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Chris Hunt

Producer

Chris Hunt

Television anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. Programme on the staging of King Lear around a rehearsal in the National Theatre of David Hare’s production with Anthony Hopkins in the title...

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Mesure pour Mesure (1979 Television)

aka: Measure for Measure

Director

Peter Brook

A recording, for French television, of Peter Brook’s production of Measure for Measure for Centre International de Créations Théâtrales with Clémentine Amouroux as Isabella and François Marthouret as...

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King Lear (1971 Film)

Director

Peter Brook

Producer

Michael Birkett

The relentlessly cold and unemotional interpretation was heavily influenced by the essay, ‘King Lear or Endgame’, in which the Polish poet/critic/academic Jan Kott argued that Lear should be interpreted...

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Korol Lir (1971 Film)

aka: Korol Lir

Director

Grigori Kozintsev

Feature film based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and scored by Dmitri Shostakovich. Jüri Järvet is Lear. Kozintsev’s Lear ‘goes for the wide anle, depicting how the insanity of one man...brings...

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