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Made-for-television film based on a performance of the State Theatre ‘Volnaja Stesena’, Minsk. Adapted by Alexey Dudarev with Oleg Garbuz as Macbeth.
Feature film. Alex (Grant), a London bank manager, feels nostalgic for the time when, as a university student, he staged a Shakespeare play in an idyllic English village. Deciding to repeat the experience...
A NT recording, by a single fixed camera, of the 1997 production at the Cottesloe Theatre. Directed by Sam Mendes with David Harewood as Othello and Simon Russell Beale as Iago.
Television documentary. Charts the realisation of Sam Wanamaker’s ambition to build a theatre on the South Bank of the Thames, where Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre once stood. Follows escalation of tensions...
A version of Macbeth set on the Ladywood council estate in Birmingham.
Explores the authenticity of Henry V and considers the methods of its enactment and emphasis in the first performance in 1599 to the 1944 Olivier film version. There are contributions from a film historian,...
Examines how directors approach and stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream and some of the problems involved. Includes footage from various productions of the play including a brief extract from Peter Brook’s...
Professor Stanley Wells and Dr Russell Jackson of the Shakespeare Institute, and Dr Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, discuss issues arising from the study of Shakespeare’s...
Cross-dressing and ambiguous sexuality in Shakespeare’s plays is discussed by actresses Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson and director Deborah Warner. Follows the progress of a theatre workshop on the...
Celia Imrie, Kenneth Cranham and Fiona Shaw consider and discuss the themes of discord and misunderstanding in family life found in King Lear, and the reasons which may account for the continued popularity...
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