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Producer and director Joseph Papp is interviewed by Beverly Sills about his career and the development of the New York Shakespeare Festival and public theatre. Papp discusses his belief that theatre should...
Television polemic. Russell Davies questions Laurence Olivier’s position as the pre-eminent Shakespearean actor, arguing that his performances are all show and no substance. This belief is compromised by...
A programme for the Open University Culture and Belief in Europe 1450-1600 course. Actors Jeremy Irons and Michael Pennington and director David Giles show how, through rehearsals, the complex role of...
Series in which a composer and a director collaborate to devise and make an original music work for television. 1 (director: Simon Reynell; composer: James Dillon) A distorted reflection of a single moment...
Television series hosted by Nanette Fabray and dedicated to the belief that ‘experimentation in television is vital to the future’. The programme, filmed near Stratford-upon-Avon, is in three parts. In...
Anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. The first half of the programme features Joseph Papp. The segment, filmed in New York City, shows Papp being interviewed at various locations relevant to his...
Feature film. A parable set in a fictitious West African country rent by 10 years of tribal conflict between the ruling Nayak and the rebel Bonande. The director has stated that she saw Shakespearean...
Series, in three parts, showing how the meaning of the play can change in the hands of a director. Director Douglas Campbell has firm convictions about Macbeth (including his belief that parts of the play...
Television documentary about Joseph Papp’s 1982-3 Public Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet. The production cast an actress, Diane Venora, in the role of Hamlet and the documentary...
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