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Feature film which made its own myths as the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra was lived in real-life in the well-publicised Burton-Taylor romance. The hugely expensive sets, and Taylor’s protracted...
A video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2002 production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Rachel Kavanaugh with Paul Whitthorne and Jennifer Ikeda in the title roles. Videotaped for WAPAVA by...
Podcast hosted by Samuel Yeo, a graduate in Theatre Studies and English Literature from the Australian National University, Canberra. It explores the history of The Taming of the Shrew, from folk tales to...
Video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2003 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed for stage by Mark Lamos and recorded for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor. Mark H. Dodd is...
Radio play written by John Arden. Set in the years leading to the English Civil War it concerns a 17th-century playwright in the tradition of Shakespeare, Backhouse (David Calder),and a mysterious woman...
Live sound recording of Trevor Nunn’s 1971 production of The Winter’s Tale for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Barrie Ingham as Leontes and Judi Dench doubling the roles of Perdita and Hermione.
A new interpretation of Shakespeare’s drama by Neil Bartlett that explores the dysfunctional relationship between Antony and Cleopatra as that of an ageing mixed-race couple burning themselves out.
A videorecording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2004 production of Pericles directed by Mary Zimmerman with Ryan Artzberger in the title role. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James. J. Taylor.
Macbeth performed by the Actors Company. Directed by Barry Boys with Earle Hyman as Macbeth.
Documentary film recalling the first Elizabethan age through surviving architecture, art, furniture, music and literature. The music, by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is played by the London Sinfonia and sung by...
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