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Matthew MacFedzean’s one-actor futuristic adaptation of Richard II drew immediate acclaim with its debut performance at the 2001 Summerworks Festival in Toronto. MacFedzean believes that Richard represents...
Sheridan Morley presents a series on the history of the stage musical. This episode focuses on shows Kiss Me Kate, The Boys from Syracuse and West Side Story as well as other shows inspired by Shakespearean...
Shows Stratford and the surrounding courntryside which form the background to Shakespeare’s early life and work. Elizabethan London is related to London scenes of the 1950s. Shows a full-scale model of an...
A ten-minute sequence in one of Hollywood’s first talking pictures shows John Barrymore reciting Gloucester’s soliloquy from Henry VI. Part 3. Probably the first Shakespeare scene in a talking picture.
A series of seven videotapes featuring Edward Petherbridge in discussions and rehearsal work with students, and in excerpts from his one-man stage show. In part four, STYLE, Petherbridge satirises various...
Five-part television series for schools, presented by Mike Hall, which shows the preparation for a production of Twelfth Night. Episode 2 shows how a typical repertory company would begin work on the play....
Shows how a repertory company at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, mounted a production of Romeo and Juliet in five weeks. Traces the progress of the production from ideas to drawings, then into the workshop...
Interest film, in five parts, based on the Glastonbury pageant of 1922. Episode one shows the arrival of Joseph of Arimathea to preach Christianity to British peoples; episode 2 shows King Alfred’s...
A sound recording of Barry Humphries’ (as Dame Edna Everage) 1976 one-man stage show Housewife, Superstar! at the Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Includes dialogue in which Dame Edna satirises...
Documentary short. A history of sound films focusing on Warner Brothers productions, including John Barrymore delivering a speech as Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Credited as being from Richard III but...
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