Shakespeares Memory

Alternative title: Shakespeare’s Memory
Synopsis: A documentary based on Peter Stein’s 1976 production of As You Like It (Stein’s first Shakespeare play), at the Schaubühne. The research process was extensive, with lectures on Elizabethan stagecraft and a company field trip to Warwickshire. The company transformed the research into SHAKESPEARE’S MEMORY, four hours of masked processions, Morris dancing, mummers plays and extracts from the plays.
Language: German (Standard)
Country: Germany
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 28 May 1978 (Channel: ZDF)
Duration: 95 mins

Director

Peter Stein

Cinematographer

Bernd Fiedler

Writer

Dieter Sturm

Production Design

Karl-Ernst Herrmann

Cast

Notes: The dramaturg is Dieter Sturm.
General: As You Like It premiered in September 1977. The action began in an cool, ice-blue chamber, with the actors performing in a restrained manner throughout the first two acts. in Act III, audiences were led in single file through a tunnel filled with the sounds of the forest into the labyrinth of Arden. The stage production lasted seven hours over two evenings and was performed by twenty members of the Schaubuehne,
Reviews: The stage event is reviewed by Peter Lackner ‘Stein’s Path to Shakespeare’ in Drama Review vol. 21, no.2 Theatricalism Issue (June 1977, 79-102).

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