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Illuminations, the arts production company responsible for the acclaimed filmed stage productions of Macbeth (2010) with Patrick Stewart and RSC's Hamlet with David Tennant (2009), has just announced their...
John Wyver, Principal Investigator The Principal Investigator for Screen Plays is John Wyver, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Westminster, and a writer and producer with Illuminations. Among the...
Roland Emmerich's controversial new film Anonymous is released in UK cinemas this Friday (28 October) and it explores some of the theories that question whether Shakespeare did, or did not, in fact author...
The Wars of the Roses UK. DVD. Illuminations. 505 minutes. £29.99. About the reviewer: Dr Jodi-Anne George is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee. Her research interests include Old...
An Age of Kings is the BBC's compelling 15-part series from 1960 of William Shakespeare's great national pageant of eight History plays. Watched by over three million viewers, it remains the most ambitious...
Shakespeare live from Shepherd’s Bush,and from Stratford-upon-Avon About the author: John Wyver is a writer and producer with Illuminations (www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/), Senior Research Fellow at...
On the desk in front of me as I as write is a half-page advertisement from The Times of 10 October 1979. This treasured clipping, now creased and yellowing, is headed ‘The Fourth Television Channel:...
1. Much Ado About Nothing (1967) As part of a section devoted to Rediscovered TV Drama, referring to the well-publicised cash of TV programmes repatriated recently from the the Library of Congress in the...
Live Cinema and its Techniques by Francis Ford Coppola, (Liveright Publishing, 2017), 192 pages, ISBN: 978-1631494543 (paperback), £13.99 About the reviewer: John Wyver is a writer and producer with...
The Lost World of Friese-Greene. 2006. GB. DVD. 177 minutes. £19.99 N.B. This review originally appeared in issue 64 of Viewfinder in October 2006. About the reviewer: Professor Vanessa Toulmin is...
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