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Schools programme. The story of star-crossed lovers is explored by linking Heer & Ranjha, an ancient tale from the Punjab, with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Tara Arts perform extracts of their new stage...
Lecture by Michael Bogdanov, Artistic Director of the English Shakespeare Company. The session is chaired by P.D. James, Baroness James of Holland Park.
Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In the fifth and final episode Kustow looks at the effect of Shakespeare in other cultures....
Arts and current affairs review show presented by Kirsty Wark. In this special edition live from the Edinburgh Festival a report (c 8 mins) on Asian Shakespeare where Wu Hsing-Kuo performs a one-man version...
Video recording of Ong Keng Sen’s interpretation of King Lear bringing together artists from Japan, Thailand, China and Indonesia. The production incorporates different performing genres where actors play...
Cinemagazine made for television. This edition visits a school in Britain where many nationalities are represented and encouraged to learn from each other. Shows how the movements of a troupe of skilled...
Radio music and entertainment programme in Bengali. Director Mukul Ahmed talks to presenter Mahbub Hussain about a new theatre production, People’s Romeo, which weaves together Shakespeare’s verse and...
Video recording of Ong Keng Seng’s production of Desdemona, a staging which brought several traditional and contemporary Asian performance forms, languages, and mediums together as a response to...
Video recording of Ong Ken Sen’s Lear Dreaming. The story is set in the context of King Lear’s sleep of death, as he reminisces on the folly of his ways which led him to lose his kingdom to his daughter.
Radio crime drama by Mahes Dattani. Bangalore female detective Uma Rao is drawn into a murder investigation when Michael Forsyth, leading actor from a visiting Shakespeare company from London, is kidnapped...
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