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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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Method to Madness (2002 Film)

Subject

Drama

Documentary. Actors who have played Hamlet, or appeared in productions of the play, speak about the role they have inhabited. Contributors include Simon Russell Beale, Philip Franks, Anton Lesser, Adrian...

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Hiroyuki Sanada: A Challenge Started from Nothing (1999 Television)

Director

Hiroyuki Sanada

Subject

Drama

A Japanese television documentary about the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King Lear directed by Yukio Ninagawa starring Nigel Hawthorne as Lear. The programme is directed by Hiroyuki Sanada who...

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Great Performances. Volume 1 (1998 Video)

aka: RSC Great Performances

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Videocassette. VHS. col. 80 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Excerpts from four productions in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1994/95 season in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. Features Robert Stephens in Adrian Noble’s production of King Lear, together with...

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Infinite Variety: Women in Shakespeare (1994 Video)

Director

Ken Forrest

Producer

Bruce Woolley

Subject

Drama

Pat Quigley, education liaison of the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, interviews five actresses about their experiences playing women in Shakespeare’s plays. Includes black and white footage of...

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As You Like It: Rosalind and Celia (1992 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £29.95 each £84.95 (series)

Juliet Stevenson and Fiona Shaw discuss and illustrate some of the discoveries they have made while playing Rosalind and Celia.

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Ariel/Hamlet Goes Business (1987 Film, Video)

aka: Hamlet Gets Business Hamlet Goes Business

Director

Aki Kaurismäki

Producer

Aki Kaurismäki

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Videocassette. VHS. col/b&w. 160 min., 2001 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Feature film. A re-working in film noir style of Hamlet. Old Hamlet is president of a Helsinki timber mining and shipping empire. He is poisoned by his managing director, Klaus (Salminen), so that he and...

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Acting Shakespeare with Ian McKellen (1982 Television, Video)

aka: Shakespeare Workshop: Acting Shakespeare with Ian McKellen Ian McKellen - Acting Shakespeare

Director

Kirk Browning

Producer

David Susskind; Andrew Susskind

Subject

Drama; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 86 minutes), $29.99

A videorecording of Ian McKellen’s one man show, ‘Acting Shakespeare’. In two parts: 1 (60 min): McKellen talks about his career as a Shakespearean actor and about Shakespeare’s life and writing,...

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Comedy of Errors, The (1978) (1978 Television, Video)

Director

Philip Casson; Trevor Nunn

Subject

Drama; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 133 minutes), £7.20

A re-staging for television by Philip Casson of Trevor Nunn’s 1976 RSC stage production. Blends slapstick, song and dance to exuberant effect and popular acclaim. The production features music by composer...

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Romeo and Juliet (1954) (1954 Film)

Director

Renato Castellani

Producer

Sandro Ghenzi; Joseph Janni

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 138 minutes), £9.99

Feature film adaptation of the play. An attempt to unite Shakespeare with the Italian neo-realist school of film-making, with attractive location photography, and naturalistic crowd scenes. The text is...

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