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Shakespeare on the Modern Stage (1937 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare

Tyrone Guthrie talks about the way in which Shakespeare’s plays are being staged in the theatre in the 1930s and the problems to be faced presenting them to a ‘modern’ audience.

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Shakespeare’s Happy Endings (2005 Television)

Director

Stephen Leslie

Producer

Ben Evans

A comic account, part documentary, part staged performance, of some of the bowlderisations of Shakespeare’s plays in the history of the theatre. Presenter Patrick Barlow talks of a 1681 production of King...

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Laurence Olivier. (4 Parts) (1983 Audio)

Series

Theatre Archive Project

Laurence Olivier is interviewed by Kathleen Tynan. He tells of his time at the National Theatre and gives his opinion (not complimentary) on Viscount Chandos, Peter Brook and Peter Hall. He talks at length...

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Theatre from then till Now, The (1937 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare

Drama critic Harold Child continues the radio talks series, focusing on how Shakespeare was staged in the eighteenth century.

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Shakespeare in His Theatre (1937 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare

In the opening talk of the series, Shakespeare scholar G.B. Harrison dicusses the different ways in which Shakespeare’s plays were put on stage throughout the centuries.

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John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship (2006)

Director

Tony Palmer

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 135 minutes), £7.99

A three-part documentary, transmitted to mark the 50th anniversary of the world premiere of John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’, celebrating the life and works of one of the most influential British...

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Omnibus[03/03/1957] (1957 Television)

aka: Theatre Breaks Loose

Series

Omnibus (Us Series)

Director

David Greene

Producer

Robert Saudek

US arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. In a 45 min item entitled ‘The Theatre Breaks Loose’ directed by David Greene, critic Walter Kerr chronicles the history of theatre from the Greeks to the...

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Return Journey to the Old Vic (1949 Radio)

Producer

W. Farquharson Small

Radio programme presented by Farquharson Small on the history of the Old Vic Theatre, its two female managers, Emma Cons (acting manager 1898-1912) and Lilian Baylis (manager 1912-37), and producer-director...

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Introducing Shakespeare (1955 Film)

Director

John Dooley

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...

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Leave Your Reverence at the Door: An Elizabethan Afternoon at the Theatre (2004 Radio)

Series

About Shakespeare

13-part American radio series, hosted by Sharon Swenson, in which Shakespeare scholars discuss aspects of Shakespeare’s work. In this episode Chris Clark, Utah Valley State College, Department of Theatre,...

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