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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...
Gareth Lloyd Evans, Univesity of Birmingham, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the play. If this is a ‘problem play’, how do we define the ‘problem’? The speakers lay...
A video recording of the stage production of Charles Gildon’s play performed by the Shakespeare Institute Players of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.
Podcast of a one-day seminar on ‘Shakespeare’s Philosophy’ hosted by the Department of English Royal Holloway, University of London in 2010. Professor Wilson talks about how Shakespeare’s plots turn...
US domestic comedy drama series. In this episode David tries to help his dad out by setting him up to buy an engagement ring for Abby from a friend at work, with predictable results. Meanwhile, Joanie...
Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in Phyllida Law’s 2011 production of Verdi’s Macbeth. Simon Keenlyside is Macbeth making his debut in the role.
Feature film version of A Comedy of Errors. Chan Tai-on and Siu-on are twin brothers. Tai-kwok and Siu-kwok are their twin cousins. The brothers are separated in the war. Later, the two elder cousins settle...
US comedy short series. Inspired by the success of his favourite comedian Red Skelton, Froggy (Billy Laughlin) decides to become a radio star. Armed with a tattered joke book and an array of ‘funny’...
Audio podcast. Second episode of a radio serialisation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. Adapted by Catherine Eaton and Nat Cassidy, rendered into modern English verse by Aditi Brennan Kapil. Part of...
Radio drama written by Sam Dann. The quotation ‘how sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is/To have a thankless child’ prefaces the programme. The story is set in 1900s Vienna where a kindly Jewish couple...
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