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This workshop, based on Act II iii, shows how a group of experienced actors, with relatively little input from a director, set about developing a strategy to preserve the comic tone of the scene, while not...
First of the second series of the fortnightly theatrical review magazine commissioned for radio by the BBC Light Programme. Includes recordings of extracts from The English Arts Theatre company’s...
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...
A practical guide to fighting with a rapier and a dagger. It also chronicles the advent of the civilian duel and looks at its different styles, including twelve costumed fights from a variety of periods. The...
Edward Petherbridge links masterclass presentations with live excerpts from his one-man stage show. Each of the seven videos shows him in discussions and rehearsal work with students in a practical enquiry...
Brecht wrote the scenes to train actors in his own method for performing classical drama. The scenes were intended to be strenuously rehearsed, but then omitted when the play was presented. The idea was to...
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...
John Gielgud, in conversation with John Miller, looks back on his early career, the other artists who influenced him, and his partnerships with Oliver, Richardson, Wolfit, Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft and Edith...
Television polemic. Russell Davies questions Laurence Olivier’s position as the pre-eminent Shakespearean actor, arguing that his performances are all show and no substance. This belief is compromised by...
Three programmes relating to course AA306: Band 1) Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth: includes an interview with Roman Polanski about his film production of Macbeth and excerpts from a performance of the play...
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