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Sheffield Theatre

Date released

1971

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

670

NoS ID

328911

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Britain is experiencing a theatre boom - eight new theatres have been built this year. Leading Shakespearean actor Ian McKellen interviewed by Michele Brown find the new Sheffield Theatre with...

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Shakespeare Without Tears (1959 Television)

Series

Frankie Howerd in...

Director

Eric Miller

BBC television comedy series. Billed as ‘an episode in the life of a laughing stock of television’. Howerd plays an out-of-work, frustrated, small part actor, desperate to secure a Shakespearean role....

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Celebrity interview (1988)

aka: Bob Holness in conversation with Antony Sher

Bob Holness talks to Shakespearean actor, painter and novelist Anthony Sher, who is appearing at the Barbican in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and has been described as ‘the most exciting actor of his...

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Bob Holness in conversation with Alec McCowen (1986)

An interview with Alec McCowen. Talks about his career as a Shakespearean actor and star of many one-man shows

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Warrior to Shakespearean Actor (Video)

aka: Pritzker Military Library Presents: Season 11, Episode 15

Series

Shakespeare and the Citizen Soldier

Director

Bradley Guidera

Producer

Bradley Guidera; Megan Williams; Aaron Pylinski

A US Army veteran, playwright and actor; Stephan Wolfert talks about his military path to the creative arts, Shakespeare and the stage.

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Sir Ian McKellen, Shakespearean Actor (1992 Television)

Ian McKellen talks to Gil Klein about playing Shakespearean roles in the theatre, and about gay and lesbian movements in Great Britain.

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Old Actor, The (1912 Film)

Director

D.W. Griffith

Fiction short. A Shakespearean actor loses his part as the manager feels that he is too old. Helping a beggar in the street he is surprised to see how much money the beggar has made. Unable to get new work...

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Shakespeare and His World (1949 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare and His World

Last in a series of radio talks introducing various fields of research within Shakespearean studies. George Rylands, Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, comments on a variety of recent Shakespearean...

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Actor’s Troubles (1903 Film)

Fiction film. Description in the Selig catalogue reads ‘Oh, how are the mighty fallen. Here is a great Shakespearean actor on his uppers, actually broke; but he retains his valet and the two of them see...

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How Not to Hate Shakespeare (2016 Video)

A TED talk given by Shakespearean actor and educator Rob Crisell on the importance of integrating acting into the teaching of Shakespeare.

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