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Documentary about Gareth Armstrong’s SHYLOCK, a one-person show written and performed by Armstrong and directed by Frank Barrie. Includes a backstage interview with Armstong in which he discusses the...
Documentary. Alan Yentob travels to the ghetto in Venice with novelist Howard Jacobson as he embarks on a retelling of The Merchant of Venice. Through a series of interviews, they examine the charge of...
Television arts documentary. Sir Peter Hall rehearses with Dustin Hoffman and other cast members of the Peter Hall Company for the London stage production of The Merchant of Venice. Filmed over one complete...
Radio talk series. Presenter Gerald Pratley gives an introduction to Peter Brook’s career. There are extracts from a lecture Brook gave in Paris on the aesthetics of cinema and theatre speaking of the...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library, What do we know about Shakespeare’s life? This episode considers not only that question, but two others: During the past four centuries, when and how did...
Feature film. A loose reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story. Set in a small coal mining village in Wales in 1911, a young Jewish peddler (Solomon) meets Gaenor, the eldest daughter of a Christian mining...
Radio series in which contemporary writers reflect on the theme of Jaques’s ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech in the form of dramatic monologues. In the fifth episode, Patrick McCabe introduces his...
Radio broadcast. The play dramatised by Stephen Mulrine from Nikolai Leskov’s novel. With Blythe Duff as Katerina and James MacPherson as Sergei.
Documentary. A film which contends that hatred of Jews goes back 2,000 years, culminating with the near destruction of European Jewry. Argues that for the last 400 years, Western attitudes towards Jews have...
Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Brian Cummings. Cummings argues that the biography of Shakespeare is a paradox. Is he our...