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  1. Previewed Crime, The (1950 Radio)

    Series
    Saint, The
    Director
    Helen Mack

    Radio crime drama series featuring the character Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris. In this episode there is a Hamlet riff when Templar’s friend Desmond says that the last murder of interest to him...

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  2. East of Piccadilly (1940 Film)

    aka: Strangler, The

    Director
    Harold Huth
    Producer
    Walter C. Mycroft

    Feature film set in London’s Soho. A crime reporter and writer of thrillers captures a silk stocking murderer. George Hayes provides a cameo of an insane actor who keeps effigies of theatre critics...

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  3. Izobrazhaya Zhertvu (2006 Film)

    aka: Playing the Victim

    Director
    Kirill Serebrennikov
    Producer
    Natalya Mokritskaya; Leonid Zagalsky; Lyudmila Savelyeva

    Feature film. Black comedy, the sub-plot offering a loose adaptation of Hamlet. Tells the story of a university graduate, Valya (Chursin) who impersonates victims in crime-scene reconstructions. Valya feels...

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  4. Bard and the Dame, The (2022 Audio)

    Series
    Long Read, The

    Podcast. Host Michael Wright speaks to Philip Matthews about the important role played by crime novelist Ngaio Marsh in producing and directing Shakespeare productions in Christchurch, New Zealand from the...

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  5. Elizabethan True Crime (2021 Audio)

    Series
    Lrb Podcast, The

    Podcast. Thomas Jones talks to Charles Nicholl about the craze in the 1590s for plays representing real-life murder on the London stage, from the first known example, Arden of Faversham, to the genre’s...

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  6. Shakespeare on the Range (01/1 Film)

    Director
    Christine Chen
    Producer
    Christine Chen

    Imprisoned for life in a maximum security facility, a group of inmates deploy the words of Shakespeare to reflect on their existence.

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  7. Aasha (1957 Film)

    Director
    M.V. Raman

    Comedy/crime feature film with songs claiming inspiration from Hamlet. A landowner is accused of murder and the device of staging a play is employed whereby Kishore, disguised as an Arab, puts together a...

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  8. Maledetto, Il (2022 Film)

    Director
    Giulio Base
    Producer
    Manuela Cacciamani

    Italian crime film based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

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  9. Star Cross’d: Laura Dockrill’s Romeo and Juliet (2016 Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare Lives 2016
    Director
    Rick Stanton; Hector
    Producer
    Penny Gabriel

    STAR CROSS’D is poet, writer and illustrator Laura Dockrill’s contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet. The film is set on a windswept English beach, where ‘two houses, both alike in common crime’ wage...

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  10. Izobrazhaya Zhertvu (2006 Film)

    aka: Playing the Victim

    Director
    Kirill Serebrennikov
    Producer
    Leonid Zagalsky; Ulyana Savelyeva; Natalya Mokritskaya

    Feature film. A black comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Hamlet. Valya, a university graduate, makes a living impersonating victims in crime-scene reconstructions. He is also haunted by the ghost of...

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