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  1. China: Acrobats (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min.

    Before 1949 and Liberation, acrobats in China were likened to tramps, thieves and vagabonds. After the Revolution, new attitudes to all forms of art were adopted and acrobats were re-established amongst the...

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  2. China: Ballet (1980 Video)

    Director
    Charles Nairn
    Producer
    Charles Nairn
    Subject
    Dance; Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    The Peking ballet was turned into a ‘model’ company by Chiang Ching during the time of Mao Tse-Tung’s leadership. This film describes what became of the company during that time. It gives a sense of...

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  3. Macbeth (1979) (1980 Television, Video)

    Director
    Philip Casson
    Producer
    Trevor Nunn
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 146 minutes), £12.99

    Originally directed by Trevor Nunn for The Other Place, Stratford, the studio production envisaged a small group of actors creating the play before a small audience in an intimate atmosphere of the utmost...

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  4. Shakespeare and His Theatre (1977 Multimedia, Video)

    Director
    Alan Afriat
    Producer
    Alan Afriat
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2004sale: £19.00 (+p&p)

    Two programmes made in Stratford-on-Avon and London looking at Shakespeare’s life and the environment in which he wrote his plays. C. Walter Hodges talks about Elizabethan theatre, Professor John Russell...

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  5. King Lear (1988) (1974 Television, Video)

    Director
    Charles Warren
    Producer
    Tony Davenall
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £12.99

    A television production of the play, originally in six separate episodes, with Patrick Magee as Lear.

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  6. Preparing a Play. Part 1: The Stage (Television)

    Director
    Richard Gilbert
    Producer
    Charles Warren
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy found

    Five-part television series for schools, presented by Mike Hall, which shows the preparation for a production of Twelfth Night. Episode 1 introduces the theatre in Shakespeare’s day and the characters who...

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  7. Preparing a Play. Part 2: First Steps (Television)

    Director
    Richard Gilbert
    Producer
    Charles Warren
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy found

    Five-part television series for schools, presented by Mike Hall, which shows the preparation for a production of Twelfth Night. Episode 2 shows how a typical repertory company would begin work on the play....

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  8. Preparing a Play. Part 3: Movement (Television)

    Director
    Richard Gilbert
    Producer
    Charles Warren
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy found

    Five-part television series for schools, presented by Mike Hall, which shows the preparation for a production of Twelfth Night. In episode 3 actors perform exercises to develop movements which suggest a...

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  9. Preparing a Play. Part 4: Setting the Pace (Television)

    Director
    Richard Gilbert
    Producer
    Charles Warren
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy found

    Five-part television series for schools, presented by Mike Hall, which shows the preparation for a production of Twelfth Night. Episode 4 looks at pacing; not the actual speed at which things happen, but the...

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  10. Preparing a Play. Part 5: Dress Rehearsal (Television)

    Director
    Richard Gilbert
    Producer
    Charles Warren
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy found

    Five-part television series for schools, presented by Mike Hall, which shows the preparation for a production of Twelfth Night. Episode 5, the final episode, is the dress rehearsal.

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