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Television documentary. Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan created Romeo and Juliet for The Royal Ballet in 1965. The ballet was conceived for Christopher Gable and Lynn Seymour but Nureyev and Fonteyn took the...
Radio arts programme in which John Huntley presents a previously undiscovered tape that he recorded in 1956 with Laurence Olivier, describing the problems of shooting Shakespearean films. Other contributors...
Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay are joined by their friend Brittany to discuss the Shakespeare movies that were released in the 1990s and how they reflected that decade. The films being...
Video recording of John Hirsch’s 1969 staging of Hamlet for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with Kenneth Welsh in the title role.
Television documentary series tracing the history and progress of Western civilisation. Discussing the theme of progress and communication, Kenneth Clark speaks of the Reformation, the Germany of Dürer and...
R A Foakes, University of Kent, and Kenneth Muir, University of Liverpool, discuss approaches to the Othello, which is often regarded as a domestic tragedy, different in nature from the other great...
Second in a series of documentaries on contemporary theatre. Margot Campbell interviews Peter Hall, Director of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, director Clifford Williams, and Michael Langham, director of the...
Eight illustrated lectures by distinguished scholars who consider the background to Shakespeare’s plays: Shakespeare’s theatre; Shakespeare as listener and reader, Shakespeare’s text; Shakespeare’s...
Radio series in six parts in which Michael Billington talks to actors about key roles in the repertoire. In the last episode Michael Pennington and Kenneth Branagh talk to critic Michael Billington about...
Staged in honour of Rudolf Nureyev on the tenth anniversary of his death. Introduced by Makhar Vaziev, director of the Maryinsky Theatre. Ballet excerpts are performed by dancers from the Kirov Ballet, Paris...