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Feature film. A Japanese version of King Lear, directed by Akira Kurosawa, transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan. An old man, now a warlord, cedes his kingdom to his eldest son and starts a power struggle...
Recording of a streamed online presentation by Oz Helligman on cross-dressing, queerness and discussions of gender is Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Chaon Cross discusses playing Lady Macbeth in a current production of the ‘Scottish Play’ at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
Television arts series. Theatre critic and writer Margaret Croyden interviews theatre director Peter Brook in 1973 just after his return from Africa with his Centre of Theatre Research group of actors. Brook...
Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...
Documentary. The export of Western culture has made English a star performer on the world stage. This programme discusses the ubiquity of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, explaining their roles in...
Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 4: Count Orso offers a modern Viola a spectacular twelfth night, with a wardrobe beyond most cross-dressers’ dreams.
Video recording of the Dhaka Theatre from London and Harare staging of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The production is spoken in Shona and performed with a cast of two.
Cross-dressing and ambiguous sexuality in Shakespeare’s plays is discussed by actresses Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson and director Deborah Warner. Follows the progress of a theatre workshop on the...