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  1. National Theatre 50th Anniversary DVD (2014)

    Director
    Adam Low
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 301 minutes), £29.99

    A 2 disc DVD of the National Theatre’s 50th anniversary celebrations, which contains the ‘50 Years on Stage’ live gala performance and the two part Arena documentary on the history of the National...

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  2. Three Sisters (2014)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 158 minutes), £6.98

    Directed by Laurence Olivier and featuring a specially commissioned score by composer William Walton, this filmed production of Anton Chekhov’s play by London’s National Theatre Company is now...

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  3. King Lear (1983) (2002 Television)

    Director
    Michael Elliott
    Producer
    David Plowright
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 158 minutes), £14.99

    Television production of the play, set in the year 800 and staged entirely in Granada’s Manchester studio, and one of the few not based on a prior stage production. With music specially composed by Gordon...

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  4. Tea with Mussolini (1998 Film)

    aka: Tea with Mussolini

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    Riccardo Tozzi; Giovannella Zannoni; Clive Parsons

    Feature film comedy drama, based on Zeffirelli’s autobiography, concerning a group of elderly expatriate English women living in Florence in 1934. One of the group (Mary), who are known as the...

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  5. Classical Noh Theatre of Japan, The (1991 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, 50 slides. b&w & col.

    The slides illustrate the characteristics of Noh theatre, which has survived unchanged since the 14th century. They show the Noh as the first theatre to put into practice the principle of economy. They also...

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  6. Merchant of Venice, The (1973) (1973 Television)

    Director
    John Sichel
    Producer
    Cecil Clarke
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 128 minutes), £12.99

    Originally staged by Jonathan Miller at the Old Vic in 1970 and then at the National Theatre, London in 1971, the production was subsequently recorded for television. The production is set in Venice in the...

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  7. Three Sisters (1970)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Producer
    John Goldstone
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 156 minutes), £19.99

    A feature film version of the play by Anton Chekhov, translated by Moura Budberg, with music by William Walton, based on the 1967 National Theatre production of the play. Two fantasy sequences are added for...

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  8. Twelfth Night (1970) (1969 Television)

    Director
    John Sichel
    Producer
    John Dexter; Cecil Clarke
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £12.72

    A production staged for television by John Sichel with Joan Plowright as Viola/Sebastian, Alec Guinness as Malvolio, Tommy Steele as Feste and Ralph Richardson as Sir Toby Belch.

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  9. Uncle Vanya (1963) (1963)

    Director
    Stuart Burge
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

    Laurence Olivier’s production of Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Originally recorded for television then transferred to 16mm film.

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  10. Comedy of Errors, The (Television)

    Producer
    Lionel Harris
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Unavailable

    A televised ‘operatic’ production of the play by Lionel Harris with music composed by Julian Slade and James Turner.

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