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New Zealand crime drama. In this episode the lead actor in an amateur production of Hamlet dies on stage just at the end of the play. Detective Mike Shepherd investigates a case of cyanide poisoning. The...
German television crime drama set in London’s theatre world based on the novel by Nino Erne. Just before the premiere of Shakespeare’s Othello, the lead actor Robert Adam is found dead in his changing...
Feature film. Murder mystery amidst a provincial stage production of Macbeth. The characters believe that the deaths, including that of the director, are a result of the curse of ‘the Scottish play’ but...
Comedy thriller set in a small theatrical company. To director Roberto the events bring back childhood memories when he witnessed a murder in the same theatre. However, Roberto’s eccentric elderly aunt has...
Audio podcast. Rosie Goldsmith speaks to Norwegian thriller writer Jo Nesbo, who has written a crime novel set in the 1970s inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The books has been published as part of the...
Feature film. Johnny, By and Kate are schoolmates who attempt to prove the innocence of Johhny’s father. They discover the murderer is Al Posna and attempt a scheme in which Posna confesses his crime. They...
Radio crime drama series featuring the character Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris. The title of the episode is quoted by Templar (Price) when explaining to the taxi driver and friend why they are...
Last of three television talk show specials dedicated to 3 major themes in Shakespeare’s plays: love, power and death. In this episode, presenter Jörg Thadeusz discusses with crime novelist Andrea...
Detective drama written by Olwen Wymark and Barbara Clegg. Landscape gardener-cum-detective Jim Thackeray needs to combine his skills when a murder takes place in the Shakespeare-themed garden he has...
An imaginative student production featuring gender-neutral casting in a ‘true crime’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, presented as a TV investigation into the crimes of Duke Vincentio, flashing back...
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