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Fiction comedy short. When a staging of Hamlet fails the manager insists on putting on a revised version and persuades a wealthy girl to play Ophelia. In the performance the Ghost does a song and dance...
Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music. This episode presents four versions of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in the theatre, opera (Gounod), ballet (Prokofiev) and the...
Last in a series of four programmes, presented by Penny Gore, featuring music written for Shakespeare’s plays. The focus in the final episode is Romeo and Juliet in music ranging from Berlioz to Bernstein....
Video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2016 all-male staging of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskander. Peter Gadiot is Petruchio and Maulik Pancholy is Kate.
A musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Written by D. F. Aitken, with music by Harry Jacobson and Kenneth Leslie-Smith. Lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and James Dyrenforth. Adapted for radio by...
Cambridge Experimental Theatre’s Hamlet, adapted for the stage by Roland Kenyon, challenges the entrenched notions of naturalism, sanctity of text, one-man-one-part and the tragic male hero, in a...
Opera, ballet and pantomime are incorporated into this adaptation which is derived from a Lindsay Kemp stage production at Sadler’s Wells. Titania (The Incredible Orlando) is a drag queen; the Indian boy...
Extracts include: Sonnet 130 read by dairy farmer, Norman, on his tractor. - Trail for As You Like It with Helena Bonham Carter and David Morrissey. - Sonnet 2 read by Vicki Wilson at South Tyneside College....
This video presents a recording of the live virtual online audio performance of selected scenes from King Lear by students from the theatre and dance department of East Tennessee State University. It also...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What happens when Shakespeare’s work is translated into foreign languages? Scholars and theatre artists, with Rebecca Sheir, look at what constitutes the...
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