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Documentary short. The traditions of a Hungarian village in winter, including the visit of a group of travelling theatre players who come to perform Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Feature film. An English troupe of actors tour post-Raj India staging performances of Shakespeare to dwindling audiences as British dominance of, and interest in, British culture fades. The film is an ironic...
Feature film. In nineteenth-century Austria, a young Jew leaves the ghetto to become an actor. He eventually becomes famous and is reunited with his disapproving Rabbi father. Ernst Deutsch, as the Jew...
Fiction comedy short. Misadventures of a travelling company of actors performing Hamlet for one night in a small town. When the troupe’s leading lady deserts the show for a better paying job as a waitress,...
Fiction film comedy concerning a ham actor (Humphrey) who, with his company, leaves town without paying his hotel bill. Pursued by a policemen he takes refuge in a private house where he stumbles upon some...
Comedy western. The world’s greatest tragedian is due to perform at Snakeville’s Opry House. The Tank Town troupe arrives and stays at Slim’s (Potel) boarding house. Slim’s wife Sophie (Joslin) is...
Shortened adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel. Includes the sequences where Nicholas joins the Crummles’ company and plays Romeo in their production of Romeo and Juliet.
American television western drama. Concerns Deadwood, Dakota and charts Deadwood’s growth from camp to town incorporating such themes as the setting up of communities and western capitalism. The third...
Radio adaptation of a play written by Ronald Harwood which is based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. An actor-manager of the old school takes a Shakespearean company...
US television western series. The Lone Ranger disguises himself as Othello as he and Tonto help arrest two thieves De Witt and Lavinia Faversham. They are members of a Shakespearean repertory company posing...
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