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Television arts programme. A tribute to Laurence Olivier, broadcast on the day of his funeral. A somewhat hastily assembled miscellany of clips and critical assessments. The deepest insight comes in part...
A history of performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, commissioned to celebrate the RSC’s 25th anniversary. Features reminiscences by famous actors who have played there: James Dale, who...
Documentary on King Lear shown ahead of Richard Eyre’s production with Ian Holm transmitted later the same evening. The themes of the play are debated by actors Warren Mitchell, James Earl Jones and...
The Renaissance Theatre Company production of the play with Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Bond in the title roles.
A live recording of the 1959 production staged at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford upon Avon by Tony Richardson; with Paul Robeson as Othello and Sam Wanamaker as Iago. Recorded by Hal Rogers.
Pioneering, influential and often challenging, Armchair Theatre was ITV’s flagship drama anthology series. Bringing high-quality drama to the viewing public, the series easily demonstrated the network’s...
The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. Niamh Cusack is Rosalind.
A Shakespeare Recording Society with Anthony Quayle and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as the Macbeth.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the 1995 Royal Shakespeare Company small-scale production of The Tempest. Directed by David Thacker with Paul Jesson as Prospero.
Feature film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Eliminating cinematic narrative and theatrical staging the film was harshly treated by the critics.
Learning on Screen