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A performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed at the Sala Miguel Couarrubia, Ciudad Univeritaria, Mexico City. An orchestra rehearsal frames the action of the play.
Feature film loosley based on Othello. Otilio is the richest man of Huasteca who falls in love with Julia, a simple young woman, and the star ballerina of the ‘Huapango’ troupe. Her dancing partner, who...
A production of Othello directed by Claudia Rios with Hernan Menoza in the title role.
Feature film work re-working The Comedy of Errors in the ‘ranchera’ genre, the Mexican version of the ‘singing cowboy’ film. Set in a rural Mexican town the film is ‘A relatively faithful...
Feature film loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew and Count Lucanor by Juan Manuel. Set during the Revolution of Juarez, the film opens in the town of Cholula, which has been seized by rebel forces. The...
Feature film. A farce parodying Romeo and Juliet (and strongly referencing Cukor’s 1936 film version) starring Cantinflas, the celebrated Mexican comedian (real name Mario Moreno). Lanier (op cit) notes...
Scenes from The Tempest from a 1994 production in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Narration by Krishnan Venkatesh.
Scenes from Romeo and Juliet performed at St John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with comments on staging by Stephen Schwartz. Narrated by Krishnan Venkatesh.
Irregularly scheduled series of musical specials featuring Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Bernstein compares the beat in Shakespeare’s verse to rhythms in jazz, Beethoven’s...
Part 19 in a 39-part narrated slide show on Western cultural history by Charles G. Bell of St John’s College, New Mexico. The video edition was produced by artists Steina and Woody Vasulka. The video...
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