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  1. Self Made (2010 Film)

    Director
    Gillian Wearing
    Producer
    Lisa Marie Russo

    A documentary recording a theatre project that artist Gillian Wearing initiated in London with a Method acting teacher, Sam Rumbelow. Together, they found seven non-actors - ‘participants’, via a...

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  2. Getting Lear (2009 Film)

    Director
    Chris Ramsey
    Producer
    Chris Ramsey; Stuart Omans

    Documentary. Did Shakespeare create King Lear for the purpose of educating his audience on the issues of ageing, retirement, and ultimately death? A retired English professor and a group of his friends...

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  3. Essential Shakespeare Live Encore, The (2009)

    Director
    Peter Hall; Trevor Nunn; John Barton; Adrian Noble; Sam Mendes; Michael Boyd; Gregory Doran; Peter Brook; Bill Alexander; David Thacker

    Following THE ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE LIVE the two discs feature scenes taken from RSC productions in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, recorded by the British Library and the RSC over almost half a century. As...

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  4. Life Goes on (2009 Film)

    Director
    Sangeeta Datta

    Feature film telling of the prejudices and Islam-phobia which is still deep-rooted among some sections of immigrant Indians in London. The director sees Life Goes On as a modern retelling of King Lear, for...

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  5. I’m Here I Think, Where Are You? [23/5/2008] (2008 Radio)

    Series
    I’m Here I Think, Where Are You?

    5-part radio serial in which actor Timothy West reads excerpts from his letters, written over the course of 30 years as a touring actor, to his wife, Prunella Scales. In this episode, Timothy West reads the...

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  6. Izingane Zobaba (2008 Television)

    aka: Father’s Children

    Series
    Shakespeare in Mzansi
    Director
    Tim Greene
    Producer
    Portia Gumede

    Mini-series reworking King Lear and set in the lucrative coal distribution industry of Richards Bay. It depicts the lives of two families torn apart by jealousy, greed and deception and incorporates the...

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  7. Bunch of Amateurs, A (2008 Film)

    Director
    Andy Cadiff
    Producer
    David Parfitt

    Feature film comedy. Ageing Hollywood star (Burt Reynolds) signs up to play the title role in King Lear in Britain to revive his flagging career. He believes the role is part of a Royal Shakespeare Company...

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  8. Cinematic Translation of Shakespearean Tragedies, A (2008 Film)

    Director
    Liz Tabish

    Experimental short. A series of six short films based on Shakespeare’s tragedies conceptualised by a variety of film genres: Othello (silent film), Romeo and Juliet (film noir), Hamlet (classic Hollywood...

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  9. King Lear: Text and Performance (2000)

    Series
    Shakespeare: Text and Performance, Course Aa306

    Explores the way meanings are created in theatre and recorded performance through performers, directors, space, audience, design, cultural background, types of performance and techniques of recording and...

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  10. Tragedy of King Lear, The (1999 Audio, Radio)

    aka: King Lear

    Director
    John Juliani
    Producer
    John Juliani

    A radio broadcast for CBC. Directed for stage by John Juliani and adapted by Michael Cook, with John Colicos as Lear.

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