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Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to author Marion Turner about her book, The Wife of Bath: A Biography, and the influence Chaucer’s character had on later writers including Shakespeare.
Trailer for Max & Beth, a young people’s theatre YPT Urban Arts company production written by UK rap artist Lowkey which is inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth and written entirely in rhyme. "Kidulthood...
News item. Peter Green reports from Aldridge where two young men are reading Shakespeare while sitting in a bath of cold baked beans to help raise money for charity.
Recording of an illustrated lecture by Geoffrey Marsh in which he explores the period in the 1590s when William Shakespeare lived near St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate and what influence that place and his...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of The Peter Hall Company’s 2006 production of Measure for Measure. Directed by Peter Hall with James Laurensen as the Duke and Andrea Riseborough as Isabella.
Musical short. Set in the office of a music promoter, the boss, his secretary and the typists all dance. Two tap dancers (Tom and Dick) arrive for audition, then an old Broadway actor (McNaughton). He at...
Feature film. A romantic weepie concerning the love affair between a dying concert pianist and a half-blind pilot. The third member of the love triangle (Roc) is involved in rehearsals for a production of...
A comic murder mystery conceived and staged by Forkbeard Fantasy to mark their 30th year in the theatre. Set in 1904 in the pioneering days of cinema, a group of fledgling movie makers, desperate to...
Video recording of the play by Joe Calarco. Four boys in a repressive Catholic boarding school (of several decades ago) engage in a clandestine reading of a copy of Romeo and Juliet which is hidden under the...
Video recording of The Peter Hall Company’s 2003 production of As You Like It with Rebecca Hall as Rosalind.
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