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Television documentary. Actors speak about about the challenge of performing Shakespeare. Their comments are illuminating - Ian McKellen believes his first thirty years of Shakespearean acting to have been...
3-part reality television series in which two contrasting schools, over 8 weeks, put on a production of Romeo and Juliet to be staged at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre. Each school is cast as one of the two...
Documentary. Lenny Henry tells how a comedian had a burning ambition to act in Shakespeare’s plays. There are brief extracts (rehearsal and performance) of Henry in Othello (Rutter’s 2009 production) and...
Documentary. Joely Richardson looks at Shakespeare’s women examining As You Like It and Twelfth Night covering issues such as cross dressing, twins, disguise, the nature of comedy and gender. The...
Video recording of the National Theatre, London 2013 production of Othello directed by Nicholas Hytner with Adrian Lester in the title role.
Video recording of a Platform Performance. Adrian Lester talks to Al Senter about his acting career, focusing on his current role as Othello in Nicholas Hytner’s production. He also talks about working on...
Series in which an actor explores a work by Shakespeare, revealing a personal connection to the work and how it has shaped them professionally. They investigate how their chosen play was written, as well as...
Video recording (mixed recording, four cameras) of Lolita Chakrabarti’s play about the 19th century actor Ira Aldridge and his taking the role of Othello. Adrian Lester plays Aldridge.
Radio broadcast. In preparing to take on the role of Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hugh Quarshie goes in search of the wisdom of others about the ethical conundrums of a black actor playing the...
Sound recording. A panel of Shakespearean actors discuss ‘Othello’. Adrian Lester, Hugh Quarshie and Janet Suzman in conversation with theatre critic and academic Kate Bassett.
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