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Television interview with actor and first artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Mark Rylance, about his life and career, especially his relationship with Shakespeare and his controversial...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1986 production of The Winter’s Tale. Directed by Terry Hands with Penny Downie as Hermione/Perdita and Jeremy Irons as...
Television drama. Tom Sturridge is King Henry and Benedict Cumberbatch Richard, Duke of Gloucester.
Television drama written and directed by Jim Cartwright. Johnny comes from a broken home and lives with his alcoholic, bingo-addicted gran on a housing estate. He is illiterate. He meets Diane, a drama...
An adaptation of Romeo and Juliet radically interpreting the text, while preserving the verse. Set in a futuristic Verona, the film uses shock cuts, speeded-up trick motion, and a rock music score. Leonardo...
Derek Jacobi discusses Richard II. Jacobi comments on his own interpretation of Richard in the BBC Television Shakespeare series and states at the end of the programme that knowing what he knows about the...
Independent and self-funded documentary. Actors/directors Dan Poole and Giles Terera travel the world asking actors, directors, students and the public about their experiences of Shakespeare.
Television documentary celebrating the work of Paul Scofield. Includes footage of Scofield on tour in Romania with the RSC production of King Lear directed by Peter Brook in 1964. Shots of the cast getting...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 1 - Joe MacFadden reads sonnet 18 ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 2 - David Walliams performs ‘In my stars I am above thee’ from Twelfth...