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Examines some of the ways in which cultural images of gender in the 20th century have arisen. Drawing material from a wide variety of sources, the programme offers a historical justification for Simone de...
Works from the collection of the Leeds City Art Galleries provide a varied critical study of images of women. The works range from Victorian narratives by Tissot and Waterhouse, and high-minded embodiments...
Considers the construction of femininity through dance. Looks at a class of 8-10-year-olds in their ballet class and discusses the pressure on girls to conform to a romantic notion of beauty. Interviews the...
Opera, ballet and pantomime are incorporated into this adaptation which is derived from a Lindsay Kemp stage production at Sadler’s Wells. Titania (The Incredible Orlando) is a drag queen; the Indian boy...
Former British commercial photographer Jo Spence presents the photographs in her ‘family snapshot album’ and questions how and why women value images of themselves.
Cross-dressing and ambiguous sexuality in Shakespeare’s plays is discussed by actresses Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson and director Deborah Warner. Follows the progress of a theatre workshop on the...
A production, for German television, of the 1993 production of As You Like It staged by the Bremer Shakespeare Company. Directed for stage by Pit Holzwarth and by Klaus Bertram for television it features...
Radio drama written by Peter Straughan about a group of boy players competing for the female roles in Shakespeare’s company. Acting the parts of Shakespeare’s heroines, they are briefly lifted above...
Video recording of Joe Banno’s 1999 production of Hamlet for the Folger Theatre. Banno employs three actresses and one actor to play Hamlet. Holly Twyford plays the central Hamlet and the three other...
Dance-drama inspired by Macbeth. In collaboration with the late Milon Kalis, choreographer Antonie Svobodová creates Macbeth out of a collage of elements, including spoken English and Czech, acting, dance,...
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