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Radio programme for schools. Edith Evans talks about the stage with excerpts from She Stoops to Conquer and Hamlet (the players’ scene). Dame Edith, when asked what a girl should do to become an actress,...
In three parts: 1) a workshop on scenes from As You Like It run by actress Fiona Shaw, exploring the language of the play; 2) an assessment of the 1994 production of the play staged by Cheek by Jowl; 3) a...
Online video panel discussion chaired by Dr Yasmin Arshad and Dr Chris Laoutaris focusing primarily on the ‘Shakespeare She/Her’ project, including clips from some of the monolgues created. With...
Feature film. A romance taking place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 focusing on a declining male film star (Dujardin) and a rising actress (Bejo), as silent cinema declines and is replaced by the...
Fiction film issued by Kalem in a two-reel instalment. The first is a story about an actress (Joyce) who is in love with an actor (Moore) and includes two stage scenes at least one of which the actress...
Feature film with a scene in which Katharine Hepburn as an ambitious actress seeking to impress makes a spectacle of herself reciting the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy, and a few lines from the balcony...
Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. Among the various stage plays that he praises for their comic qualities, he discusses J. M. Barrie’s ‘Rosalind’. A "comedy of...
Radio programme in which actress Constance Collier gives a reading on the topic. No further information available.
Feature film. A comic drama in which William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young writer who is struggling financially and, envious of a rival, meets an aspiring actress who dresses as a boy to work in...
Actress Laila Robins, reflects on her experiences of engaging with Shakespeare’s texts and the performance of Antony and Cleopatra