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  1. Frost on Coward (2012)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £6.99

    This recording of a conversation between actor, composer and singer Noel Coward and David Frost was recorded at the Mayfair Theatre in September 1968, and covers current affairs, Coward’s life and his...

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  2. Legacy Project, The: Dramatists Talk About Their Work (Vol. 1) (2011)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 475 minutes), $895.00

    The Legacy Project documents and preserves the creative process of some of America’s most esteemed writers for the theatre in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author...

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  3. Theatre in the Modern World (2011)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 22 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Not long after the start of the 20th century, playwrights, influenced by the horrors of war, began to experiment with theatre in a way which depicted many of the long held historical, social and cultural...

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  4. Beckett on Film (2005)

    Director
    Atom Egoyan; Damien Hirst; Neil Jordan; Conor McPherson; Damien O’Donnell; David Mamet; Anthony Minghella
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 647 minutes), £59.00

    This box set contains four DVDs featuring 19 film adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s plays by 19 directors, a documentary on the making of the films, interviews with the directors, an interview with John Hurt...

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  5. Oscar Wilde Collection, The (2005)

    Director
    Stuart Burge; John Gorrie; Rudolph Cartier
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £10.99

    Collection of BBC adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s plays. The Importance of Being Earnest (1986) Director: Stuart Burge. ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (1976) Director: John Gorrie Adapted by John Osborne,...

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  6. Oscar Wilde (2005)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £13.74

    Oscar Wilde was certainly one of the most brilliant writers of comedy for the English stage. The tale of his tragic downfall, caused by the society of his time condemning his private sexual life, has...

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  7. Women Dramatists 1550-1670: Plays in Performance (2000)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC SECAM, 85 minutes), £25.00

    This teaching video introduces and discusses extracts from four plays by early modern women dramatists: Stephanie Hodgson-Wright discusses her 1994 production of Elizabeth Cary’s ‘The Tragedy of...

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  8. Scenes from ‘A Pastorall’ (1645) (2000)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC SECAM, 45 minutes), £20.00

    'A Pastorall’ written by two noblewomen, the sisters Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley, is a pastoral masque which uses the rural figures of shepherds and shepherdesses to explore the...

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  9. Samuel Beckett: As the Story was Told (1996)

    Director
    Seán Ó Mórdha
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £195.00

    Biography of dramatist Samuel Beckett. Part 1 covers his formative years, his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, his service with the French Resistance. Beckett had settled...

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  10. Concealed Fancies, The (1645) (1994)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC SECAM, 100 minutes), £25.00

    A recording of what was probably the world premiere production of ‘The Concealed Fancies’ (1645), a comedy written by two aristocratic noblewomen, the sisters Lady Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley,...

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