Learning on ScreenMidsummer Night’s Dream, A
- Synopsis
- Complete performance by the Marlowe Dramatic Society directed by George Rylands. Jill Balcon is Titania and Anthony White is Oberon.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Audio
- Year of release
- 1961
- Availability
- Out of Distribution (2006)
Credits
- Director
- George Rylands
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Thurston Dart
- Cast
Additional Details
- Theatre company
- Marlowe Dramatic Society
- Production type
- Sound Recordings(Commercial)
- Plays
- Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- drama in English; performances; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- General
- John Fortune is credited as John Wood in this production.
- Textual information
- The recordings used Dover Wilson’s New Cambridge text
- Documentation
- Sleeve notes contain background to the play and the characters.
- Reviews
- Series reviewed by Rex Gibson, TES Friday 22 May 1998, p38
For an assessment of the sound recordings from Arkangel, the Marlowe Society (Rylands) and the Caedmon Shakespeare Recording Society (Sackler) see Lanier, Douglas ‘Shakespeare on the Record’ in Hodgdon, Barbara & Worthen, W.B. (eds) A Companion to Shakespeare in Performance (Malden: Blackwell, 2005), pp415-436
Production Company
- Name
Argo
Sponsor
- Name
The British Council
- Web
- http://www.britcoun.org External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7930 8466
- Fax
- 020 7389 6347
- Address
- 10 Spring Gardens
London SW1A 2BN
Archive
- Name
British Library Sound Archive
- listening@bl.uk
- Web
- http://www.bl.uk/nsa External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7412 7676
- Fax
- 020 7412 7441
- Address
- 96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
Distributor
- Name
Polygram Spoken Word, tel 020 8910 5000
- Phone
- 020 8910 5000
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Retail outlets
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