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Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What exactly counts as a Shakespeare adaptation? And why bother in the first place? The podcast talks to three writers who have wrestled with these questions....
Feature film musical about the efforts of London’s Windmill Theatre to stay open during the Blitz. In one scene in an officers’ mess a notice-board announces ‘By permission of Group Captain G. Homesby,...
Low-budget student feature film. A comedy that centres around a group of enterprising students who strive to achieve their dream of acting on the big stage despite the odds being stacked heavily against...
Radio drama. A young woman tries to get her boyfriend to live in the big city with her. He tries to get her to settle down in their small town. She lists the horrors of staying, which include becoming a...
An American public information/educational film in which African-American actor Rick Jones, wearing Elizabethan costume, warns young people against taking drugs. The transcript is: ‘Life is a precious...
Staging for film of the 1997 one-man play by William Luce starring Christopher Plummer as American acting legend John Barrymore. With his career in tatters, ageing actor John Barrymore rents an old theatre...
Video recording of the staging by Jack O’Brien of Macbeth at the Lincoln Center, NYC. Ethan Hawke and Anne-Marie Duff are the Macbeths. Videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape by Patrick Hoffmann.
Children’s television cult science-fiction series. The Daleks build a time machine and send an execution squad to hunt the Doctor and the TARDIS through eternity. In the TARDIS the travellers huddle around...
Eight of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...
Sketch from the Canadian comedy series SCTV that parodies the theory that Sir Francis Bacon actually wrote Shakespeare’s plays. It stars Dave Thomas as Shakespeare and Rick Moranis as Bacon in four...
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