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Feature film. Black comedy, the sub-plot offering a loose adaptation of Hamlet. Tells the story of a university graduate, Valya (Chursin) who impersonates victims in crime-scene reconstructions. Valya feels...
Podcast. Host Michael Wright speaks to Philip Matthews about the important role played by crime novelist Ngaio Marsh in producing and directing Shakespeare productions in Christchurch, New Zealand from the...
Podcast. Thomas Jones talks to Charles Nicholl about the craze in the 1590s for plays representing real-life murder on the London stage, from the first known example, Arden of Faversham, to the genre’s...
Imprisoned for life in a maximum security facility, a group of inmates deploy the words of Shakespeare to reflect on their existence.
Audio podcast. Rosie Goldsmith speaks to Norwegian thriller writer Jo Nesbo, who has written a crime novel set in the 1970s inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The books has been published as part of the...
An imaginative student production featuring gender-neutral casting in a ‘true crime’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, presented as a TV investigation into the crimes of Duke Vincentio, flashing back...
Television drama series. Second episode of the second series of murder mysteries. In this episode, written by Malcolm Bradbury, the detective duo investigate a serial killer who has carried out three ritual...
Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and guests Jonathan Bate, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the...
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...
Fiction film. A re-telling of Macbeth set in the ganglands of Melbourne. Macbeth (Worthington), a loyal henchman to his crime boss Duncan (Sweet), is told by teenage witches that he will one day assume a...
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