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Macbeth has inspired many inventive and influential screen adaptations by Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Trevor Nunn, Gregory Doran, Vishal Bhardwaj, Justin Kurzel and Akira Kurosawa. The history is explored...
Feature film. An awkward Scottish schoolboy eventually finds love. Comedy set in a Scottish new town. Includes a scene in a classroom where Andy (Buchanan) reads aloud from Puck’s speech ending `...and...
A feature-length celebration of Shakespeare on silent film drawing on two dozen titles from the BFI National Archive many of which are rarely seen. Of the estimated 300 Shakespeare films produced in the...
Radio broadcast. Isn’t silent Shakespeare an oxymoron? All that’s nuanced, beautiful, meaningful in the poetry - silenced. Yet between 1899 and 1927, when the first commercial sound film was released,...
Radio current affairs and news programme. In this four minute item correspondent Raymond Buchanan reports on what happens if you combine two cultural icons, Shakespeare and the Beatles. Chris O’Neill, a...
Feature film described by some as a cross between The Tempest and The Phantom of the Opera. A grotesquely disfigured harpooner named Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in...
Television mystery drama based on Agatha Christie’s novel of the same name. The story begins with Mark Easterbrook (Buchanan), a young sculptor, leaving a production of Macbeth. He stumbles across a dying...
Feature film based on The Tempest. Phillip, a New York architect, abandons his wife (who is having an affair with tycoon, Alonzo) and career by fleeing to Greece with his teenage daughter, Miranda. In Athens...
Feature film adapted from H.G. Wells’ short novel The Island of Dr Moreau (1896). The hubristic scientist, Dr Moreau, is banished from his home to a remote island where he proclaims himself the absolute...
Having landed the role of Romeo in "Romeo an Juliet" , Jeremy discovers that tights are standard issue.
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