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Radio broadcast. The Nottingham Shakespeare Society performs the following excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays: Richard III (I iv), The Merchant of Venice (III i), Romeo and Juliet (II ii), Othello (V ii).
Item from MONITOR, the television arts documentary series. A report on the new theatre built in Nottingham including the opening by Lord Snowdon. Features rehearsal footage of Tyrone Guthrie’s production...
Radio broadcast. The Nottingham Playhouse Company perform extracts from their current production of Shakespeare’s comedy under the direction of Andre van Gyseghem. With George Hagan as Petruchio and Ursula...
Video documentation of performances by Nottingham- based experimental theatre company Reckless Sleepers: Showreel (1997); Parasite (commissioned for Nottingham’s NOW 94 festival); Shakespeare’s Murders...
Televised adaptation of the play with Michael Hordern in the title role and Frank Middlemass as the Fool.
Live audio recording of Jonathan Miller’s 1970 production of King Lear for the Old Vic with Michael Hordern in the title role.
Regional television news item. Black actor Don Warrington is playing Mark Antony at the Nottingham Playhouse. The MACE catalogue entry states this is the first time a black actor has played the role. There...
Nigel Alexander, University of Nottingham, and Nicholas Brooke, University of East Anglia, discuss the complexities of what is often considered as a straightforward ‘romantic’ tragedy. This play...
Six amateur actors from each of the English regions play the Mechanicals and perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Samuel West narrates. London: Tower Theatre from East...
Radio broadcast. Fourth in a series of 26 weekly programmes "designed as an anthology of the best-known and best-loved speeches and scenes" from Shakespeare’s better known plays. This episode showcases...