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Television comedy drama. A Hollywood film star is playing the lead in a New York stage production of Hamlet. While rehearsing the ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy he is stabbed in the neck with a quill. It...
Audio podcast. Rosie Goldsmith speaks to Norwegian thriller writer Jo Nesbo, who has written a crime novel set in the 1970s inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The books has been published as part of the...
Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War by Alfred Thomas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 265 pages, ISBN: 978-1403911643 (hardback) £55.00 About the reviewer: Dr Erica Sheen teaches and researches in the...
Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. A BUNCH OF AMATEURS, a British film comedy, opens this week with Burt Reynolds playing a washed-up Hollywood action star who finds himself playing the...
In this special edition of the ‘Foyer’ theatre review series, presenter Theo Koll introduces recent important German-speaking theatre adaptations of Shakespeare, such as Luc Bondy’s King Lear and...
Compilation of sketches from the series. Includes a one minute skit in which Aimi MacDonald recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy whilst tap dancing. Next week Aimi promises King Lear.
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the challenges and consolations of old age. An extract from Cymbeline ('Fear no more’) are read by actors Barbara Jefford and...
Scenes from Shakespeare read by a variety of actors extracted from earlier recordings of full performances made for HarperCollins. Tracks include: The Merchant of Venice (IV i), Romeo and Juliet (II ii),...
37-disc boxed set containing all productions from the BBC Television Shakespeare series from 1978 to 1985.
An introduction to the play which attempts to reproduce Elizabethan acting procedures such as having the same actors playing several roles, thus showing how the plays were originally written for a specific...
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