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A burlesque involving amateur theatricals. No further information known of the Shakespeare connection beyond the title.
Comedy short. Part of the Bumptious series which featured the rotund and aptly named comedian John R. Cumpson. Bumptious organises an amateur production at the town hall of Romeo and Juliet in which he is to...
Comedy burlesque. The Mudford Amateur Dramatic Society stages Hamlet. The village doctor (Claudius) is called away during a performance and changes into everyday clothes in front of the audience; the Ghost...
Comedy burlesque. The Mudford Amateur Dramatic Society stages Romeo and Juliet. Ball (op cit) writes `...Romeo and Juliet which focused on both on the audience - a bored schoolboy who sticks chocolate on the...
Feature film comedy. Ageing Hollywood star (Burt Reynolds) signs up to play the title role in King Lear in Britain to revive his flagging career. He believes the role is part of a Royal Shakespeare Company...
Comedy short. An unemployed actor offers a stagestruck young woman and her family acting lessons in exchange for free board and lodging. They attempt a performance of Othello at the town hall which turns out...
Independent feature film. A community theatre production of Hamlet is set to open when the production loses its lead actor. The company then, unknowingly, brings in a madman actor, who is convinced he...
Made for television film. The play is set in the late 1940s, and tells the story about an official in a small mountain village and his attempt to put on a production of Hamlet. It was interpreted as a sharp...
Feature film based on the play by Ivo Bresan. The president of the peasants’ collective celebrates the anniversary by producing Hamlet. As rehearsals continue, the peoples’ lives develop parallel to...
Feature film about a troupe of travelling players in Bulgaria at the turn of the twentieth century. The players give performances to the poor in rural areas; when the company becomes state-owned with a...