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Podcast. Host Michael Wright speaks to Philip Matthews about the important role played by crime novelist Ngaio Marsh in producing and directing Shakespeare productions in Christchurch, New Zealand from the...
Radio broadcast. Coverage of the decision by the New Zealand government to cut its support for the annual secondary school Shakespeare Festival amid claims that the playwright’s work promotes a ‘canon of...
Arts magazine series. An extract (4:50 secs) from this episode shows performer, director and teacher, Elric Hooper, returning to the stage of the University of Canterbury theatre where he played Puck in...
First video of New Zealand’s first ever series of crowd-created Shakespeare speeches comprising international and local actors, television personalities and presenters speaking lines from Hamlet’s...
New Zealand crime drama. In this episode the lead actor in an amateur production of Hamlet dies on stage just at the end of the play. Detective Mike Shepherd investigates a case of cyanide poisoning. The...
Fiction short. A western-style shoot out on a beach between God and Shakespeare - the protagonists quote variously from Shakespeare and the Bible.
Experimental and unfinished film using the same ‘Chant of Ariel’ extract, spoken by John Gielgud, from The Tempest which Lye used in his 1935 film of the same title.
Documentary about Auckland University’s Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream presented by an actor in Shakespearean costume. Director Christian Penny talks about her wish to make the...
Feature film. A comedic melodrama telling the story of a love triangle between a vaudeville knife-thrower, his target girl and a hammy Shakespearean actor.
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