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Radio broadcast. Having been put off Shakespeare by unimaginative schoolteachers, Lenny Henry recently confessed to a late-flowering passion for the plays [see LENNY AND WILL 25 March 2006] Pursuing his...
Starting at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, comedian Lenny Henry goes in search of the secret of the bard’s success through interviews with well-known Shakespeare directors and interpreters, including...
Radio documentary following stand-up comedian Lenny Henry as he prepares to take on the role of Othello for Barrie Rutter’s production of the play at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. Covering...
Comedy Sketch. David Tenannt and Michael Sheen appear respectively as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe in the style of their lockdown comedy series, STAGED. Special guest appearance by Sir Lenny...
Radio series. Lenny Henry looks at the stage history of Othello.
Comedian Lenny Henry and director Barrie Rutter talk about studying just 14 lines of Othello, and Peter Kirwan speaks on his year seeing every production in the RSC’s Complete Works Season.
Television charity variety revue. An evening of comedy acts, classic comedy shows and reports on the charities benefiting from the programme in Great Britain and Africa. Includes Jonathan Pryce and comedian...
Video recording of Dominic Cooke’s 2011 production of The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre, London with Lenny Henry as Antipholus of Syracuse and Chris Jarman as Antipholus of Ephesus.
Radio adaptation of Barrie Rutter’s 2009 Northern Broadsides company production of the play at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds with Lenny Henry taking the title role.
Documentary. Lenny Henry tells how a comedian had a burning ambition to act in Shakespeare’s plays. There are brief extracts (rehearsal and performance) of Henry in Othello (Rutter’s 2009 production) and...