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Documentary about Gareth Armstrong’s SHYLOCK, a one-person show written and performed by Armstrong and directed by Frank Barrie. Includes a backstage interview with Armstong in which he discusses the...
Shankar Vedantam presents a look at the way a people is dehumanised before a genocide. Featuring the experiences and theories of Ervin Staub, it first looks at his experiences in Nazi Germany and then looks...
Documentary. Alan Yentob travels to the ghetto in Venice with novelist Howard Jacobson as he embarks on a retelling of The Merchant of Venice. Through a series of interviews, they examine the charge of...
Feature film version of the novel by Baroness Orczy set in the French Revolution. At the end of the film, the Scarlet Pimpernel, when he encounters his arch-rival Blakeney, quotes part of John of Gaunt’s...
Feature film. Concerns the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman (Fonda) and Julia (Redgrave), a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while...
Three-part schools broadcast of Julius Caesar arranged by Douglas Alan. The introductory programme relates the plot and characters of Shakespeare’s play with the current situation in Nazi Germany and the...
Experimental film realised by Alexander Kluge.`Chamberlain, Mussolini and their aides attend a 1938 performance of [Verdi’s] Macbeth in Rome. This audience is itself made into the raw material of opera....
Comedy feature film. Anthony O’Malley (Caine) is the star of a terrible low-budget production of Richard III and has taken Tom, who plays small parts in the play, under his wing (the film opens with...
Documentary film about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001), a theatre project for which Schlingensief engaged several neo-nazis as amateur actors. In the theatre production...
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