Learning on ScreenLatest on: Shakespeare
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An Age of Kings released on DVD
Published: 4 December 2013An Age of Kings is the BBC’s compelling 15-part series from 1960 of William Shakespeare’s great national pageant of eight History plays. Watched by over three million viewers, it remains the most ambitious single Shakespeare project ever filmed for television. Hailed by the Guardian as ‘ambitious … exciting … a striking example of the creative […]
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Multicultural Shakespeare in Britain
Published: 6 November 2013Multicultural Shakespeare: 1930-2010 is a three- year, AHRC-funded research project based at the University of Warwick’s Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. Collaborating with theatres around the country, it will build a database of British black and Asian Shakespearean performances (BBA Shakespeare) as well as an oral history archive of interviews with actors, directors and […]
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Call for Papers: From Theatre to Screen – and Back Again!
Published: 28 October 2013This one-day conference to be held in Trinity House, De Montfort University, Leicester, 19 February 2014, seeks to examine the phenomenal success of theatrical adaptations of cinema, such as such as Dirty Dancing, The Full Montyand Top Hat, film adaptations of theatre, such as Les Miserables, Mama Mia and War Horse, as well theatrical productions whose success can be attributed, in part, to a […]
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Launch of EnScènes
Published: 17 September 2013The French national audiovisual institute INA has recently launched EnScènes, a freely accessible online platform tracing 70 years of the history of performing arts (theatre, dance, mime, circus, opera, movement and all kinds of spectacle vivant) through moving image and sound. The site contains some 1,000 contextualised videos of performances and about 60 interviews (including […]
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Book announcement: Spectral Shakespeares
Published: 16 September 2013Here are some of the details of the forthcoming book on media adaptations of Shakespeare by Maurizio Calbi. For more information, please visit the Palgrave Macmillan site in the UK and in the US, Macmillan: ‘Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on […]
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival Archive to be digitised
Published: 10 June 2013The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has received a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) of $200,000 for ‘Digitizing and Creating Access to the Audiovisual Collection in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Archives.’ The grant will enable OSF to preserve and make public the work of its founders, artists and innovators, which are documented […]
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Black and Asian performers working in Shakespeare
Published: 14 May 2013Telling the untold history of Black and Asian performers working in Shakespeare in the UK is the subject of the latest film from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The film British Black and Asian Shakespeare: Writing a History traces how the theatre reflects changes in wider society. The release of the film coincides […]
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New Shakespeare Biopic
Published: 24 April 2013Will, a 10-part biopic which follows a young William Shakespeare in Elizabethan London, has been bought by US cable network Pivot, and will be shot in England. It will be co-produced Endor Productions, and has been written by Craig Pearce, who also had a hand in writing the films Strictly Ballroom (1992) and Moulin Rouge! (2001). […]
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Shakespeare, Music and Performance Conference
Published: 19 March 2013Musicologists, literary and theatre historians, composers and musical practitioners from around the world meet at the Shakespeare Globe in London 3-5 May 2013 to discuss the music written for Shakespeare’s plays from the 16th century stage to 21st century cinema. Full details on how to register and a provisional programme can be found at: http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/education/events/symposia-conferences.
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Joss Whedon’s film of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
Published: 8 March 2013Joss Whedon, the cult auteur behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Avengers Assemble, has adapted Shakespeare’s evergreen comedy Much Ado About Nothing for the cinema – the trailer, to the sound of Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, is now available. This modern retelling stars Amy Acker as Beatrice and Alexis Denisof as Benedick. For further […]
