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  1. American Friends (1991 Film)

    Director
    Tristram Powell
    Producer
    Patrick Cassavetti; Steve Abbott

    Feature film adapted by Michael Palin from the travel diaries of his greatgrandfather. Francis Ashby, a fellow of Oxford College, falls in love with Elinor, an American girl of 17, while on a walking...

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  2. Scottish Play, The (1991 Radio)

    Series
    Play of the Week (BBC World Service)
    Director
    John Cardy

    Graham Holiday’s radio play is about an amateur dramatic company staging of the famously unlucky play. Michael, the director (Geoffrey Collins), casts his wife and best friend Frank as the Macbeths, little...

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  3. Fortunes of War. Episode 2: June 1940 (1987 Television)

    Series
    Fortunes of War
    Director
    James Cellan Jones
    Producer
    Betty Willingdale

    Television serial, in seven parts, based on the Balkan and Levant trilogies, Olivia Manning’s autobiographical accounts of her travels with her husband Reggie Smith between 1939 and 1943. Together for the...

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  4. Hamlet, We wsi Glucha Dolna (1987 Film, Television)

    aka: Hamlet in the Middle of Nowhere

    Director
    Olga Lipinska

    Made for television film. The play is set in the late 1940s, and tells the story about an official in a small mountain village and his attempt to put on a production of Hamlet. It was interpreted as a sharp...

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  5. Walker (1987 Film)

    Director
    Alex Cox
    Producer
    Lorenzo O’Brien; Angel Flores Marini

    Biopic loosely based on the life of William Walker, an American adventurer who invaded Nicaragua in the 19th century and declared himself president. In once scene Walker and his friends watch a production of...

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  6. Every Clown Wants to Play Hamlet (1986 Television)

    Series
    Sorry!
    Director
    David Askey
    Producer
    David Askey

    Sitcom centred around Timothy Lumsden, a depressed 41-year-old who still lives at home with, and is dominated by, his mother. In this episode Timothy is the prompter for the local dramatic society production...

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  7. Ofelia Kommer til Byen (1985 Film)

    aka: Ophelia Comes to Town

    Director
    Jon Bang Carlsen
    Producer
    Jon Bang Carlsen; Per Holst; Jane Graun; Jens Arnoldus

    Feature film. In a small village in western Jutland, John leads an isolated life as a grave-digger. During the winter a city school teacher coaches the tiny population is an amateur production of Hamlet....

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  8. Giving Notes (1985 Television)

    Series
    Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV
    Director
    Geoff Posner
    Producer
    Geoff Posner

    Television comedy sketch series written by Victoria Wood. In the two-minute skit ‘Giving Notes’ Julie Walters, as director Alma, gives notes from the stage to an unseen group of amateur actors - ‘But I...

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  9. Custody Battle, The (1985 Television)

    Series
    Golden Girls, The
    Director
    Terry Hughes

    US sitcom centred on four mature single women living together in Miami, Florida. In this episode Blanche and Rose audition for an amateur production of Macbeth, and Blanche is humiliated by being offered the...

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  10. Midsummer Madness (1984 Television)

    Series
    Hinge and Bracket
    Director
    Mike Stephens
    Producer
    Mike Stephens

    Television sitcom centred around the genteel village life of Stackton Tressel. In this episode Dame Hilda Bracket takes a leading role in the village annual open-air production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream...

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