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A three-part series which spoofs Shakespeare’s plays in a modern setting. The first episode series includes the sketches ‘Taming of the Bitch’ - a marriage counsellor helps a young couple overcome...
Television sitcom about night security staff. A reprise of an idea taken from an earlier programme in the series TAKEAWAY, which alluded to Richard II, but here with many references to King Lear. Carter and...
BBC currents affairs series in which parliamentary reports are presented by Andrew Neil and Jenny Scott. This edition reported on the Labour Party Conference, the last conference with Tony Blair as leader....
Melodrama. Alexandra Tranda awaits her father’s return. When the carriage comes up the drive she discovers his dead body hanging over the splashboard: he has been shot. Later her mother marries John...
Feature film presenting the Macbeth plot as a gangster film. Joe Macbeth is number two in the underworld to ‘kingpin’ Duca. Goaded by his wife Lily, who wants Joe to become ‘kingpin’, and...
Feature film adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde but conceived as a sexploitation film and moral statement on London decadence in the 1960s. Self-absorbed and beautiful Dorian Gray (Berger) falls in love...
Live audio recording of Günther Grass’s play that was inspired by the Stalin-Allee worker’s march against the headquarters of the Socialist Unity Party in East Berlin on June 17, 1953 and the reaction...
Audio podcast. Episode five of a radio serialisation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Adapted by Catherine Eaton, directed and rendered into modern English verse by Tracy Young. Part of the ‘Play On...
Feature film crime drama. Latino independent film. Romeo and Juliet set in the Los Angeles barrio. Despite their status in rival gangs, Plato (an aspiring rap artist) and Angelina meet at a costume party...
Feature film updating Othello to a jazz club setting. Aurelius Rex is a famous black jazz musician with a white wife, former singer Delia. Wealthy Rodney Hamilton throws a party for him where one of the...
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