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Royal Variety Performance 1979, The (1979 Television)

Director

David Millard; Norman Maen

Variety show from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. In one sketch comedian Bernie Clifton recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy astride his...

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Shakespeare’s Vortigern and Rowena (2010 Radio)

Series

Afternoon Play

Director

Marc Beeby

Producer

Marc Beeby

Radio play written by Melissa Murray and directed for broadcasting by Marc Beeby. In 1796, Richard Sheridan (Lorcan Cranitch), playwright and owner of the Drury Lane theatre stages a ‘lost’ Shakespeare...

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Peg of Old Drury (1935 Film)

Director

Herbert Wilcox

Feature film based on the life of the eighteenth-century actress Peg Woffington. Born in Dublin, she came to London and became a famous actress under David Garrick’s guidance. She suffered from a weak...

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Hamlet (1913 Film)

Director

E. Hay Plumb

Producer

Cecil Hepworth

Feature film. A record of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and the Drury Lane Company’s production of the play. `... the film’s chief purpose is to preserve a performance and a production and makes few...

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Much Ado About Nothing (Act IV, Scene I) (1926 Radio)

Radio broadcast. A theatrical ‘preview’ of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing which was subsequently staged at the New Theater, London; the transmitted excerpt (IV i) stars Henry Ainley as Benedick...

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Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble (1943 Radio)

Series

Suspense

Director

John Deitz

Radio mystery drama series. A mystery story taking place during a Drury Lane production of Macbeth.

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Great Shakespeare Jubilee, The (1979 Radio)

Producer

Colin Smith (2)

Radio broadcast. A programme for the Bicentenary of the death of David Garrick in January 1779. For three days in September 1769 Garrick master-minded the Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon in a...

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Great Garrick, The (1937 Film)

aka: Ladies and Gentlemen

Director

James Whale

Producer

Mervyn LeRoy

Feature film comedy. David Garrick, the legendary 18th-century English actor, accepts an invitation to the Comédie Française in Paris, announcing that he’ll teach them the art of acting. When they hear...

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All for Love, Or, The World Well Lost (1948 Radio)

aka: Tragedy by John Dryden, A

Producer

Peter Watts

Radio version of Dryden’s play (written in imitation of Shakespeare’s style) produced for radio by Peter Watts. Based on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Dryden’s blank verse take on the story...

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Othello (1932 Radio)

Producer

Val Gielgud

First full-length radio production of Shakespeare’s tragedy by the BBC. Adapted for broadcasting in eight scenes by E. A. Harding and produced by Val Gielgud. This special studio performance includes Henry...

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