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Wayang Golek is the rod-puppet theatre tradition of Sunda (West Java), Indonesia, which comprises a vibrant mixture of storytelling, songs and instumental music. The programme introduces the Wayang Golek...
An introduction to Shakespeare and his times, focusing on the audience and actors in Shakespearean theatre and illustrating the historical context of the plays. Looks at what it was like to be in the...
A CD-ROM exploration of four of Shakespeare’s plays - Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and ‘Hamlet’ - with Arden (2nd edition) texts, glossary and notes, an overview, criticism, essays on the...
In Papua New Guinea where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by regular advertising media, markets are being developed by other means. A theatre group travels the remote highlands...
Explores the problematic relationship between event, text and performance in Shakespeare’s Henry V. Also focuses on the way war, and images of war, are presented on stage and on film. In five sections: 1)...
Series on the history of the theatre in Germany. 1: Covers the period from 1760 to the Nazi era in 1933. 2: Typical German theatres, including extracts from shows and a look behind the scenes at the...
Professor Glynne Wickham looks at the latest proposals to reconstruct Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre near its original site in Southwark, examining the historical evidence for the construction of theatres in...
Heiner Schepers designs and makes his own puppets; he is a painter, graphic designer, craftsman and theatre director. The video gives a brief, historical account of German puppet theatre and discusses...
Film version of Beckett’s puppet play ‘Act without Words’. ‘A puppet finds a palm tree and sits in the shade, but the tree closes its fronds, leaving him in the hot sun. There is a carafe of water,...
Traces the beginnings of a divided theatrical development which takes place in Berlin after 1945 under the influence of political realities and which leads not only to differences in content but also to...
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