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  1. Balinese Tempest, A (2008 Video)

    Director
    Kirsten Pauka; Larry Reed

    A production of The Tempest combining shadow theatre with live dancers to create a cross-cultural staging of Shakespeare’s play using a style pioneered by visiting artist Larry Reed. Reed fused Balinese...

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  2. Big Life, The (2006 Radio, Video)

    aka: The Ska Musical

    Series
    Play of the Week (BBC World Service)
    Director
    Clint Dyer
    Producer
    Rosalynd Ward

    Based loosely on the plot of Love’s Labour’s Lost, the action of this much acclaimed ska musical is set in 1950s London. The Big Life follows the fortunes of a group of Caribbean immigrants arriving in...

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  3. Big Life, The (2005 Video)

    aka: The Ska Musical

    Based loosely on the plot of Love’s Labour’s Lost, the action of this much acclaimed ska musical is set in 1950s London. The Big Life follows the fortunes of a group of Caribbean immigrants arriving in...

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  4. Pericles (2005 Radio)

    Series
    Drama on 3
    Director
    Gaynor McFarlane
    Producer
    Gaynor McFarlane

    Radio adaptation of the play produced and directed by Gaynor McFarlane with a contemporary twist. The multicultural cast includes poet Benjamin Zephaniah as Gower. Tom Mannion plays Pericles and Helen...

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  5. In Othello (2002 Film)

    Director
    Roysten Abel

    Feature film. An English multicultural theatre company in contemporary New Delhi is staging a Kathakali production of Othello. The director (Abel) unconventionally casts an inexperienced small town actor...

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  6. Macbeth on the Estate (1997 Television)

    Series
    Performance
    Director
    Penny Woolcock
    Producer
    Alison Gilby

    A version of Macbeth set on the Ladywood council estate in Birmingham.

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  7. Much Ado About Nothing (1993 Film, Video)

    Director
    Kenneth Branagh
    Producer
    David Parfitt

    Lavish and festive feature film adaptation of the play set in Tuscany and using a British and pan-American cast. Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation is ‘full of sunny high spirits and still terrific fun to...

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  8. We Work Again (1937 Multimedia)

    aka: Voodoo Macbeth Macbeth

    Director
    Orson Welles

    The only known footage of the stage production of Macbeth produced by the Negro Theatre Unit of the Federal Theatre project of the WPA and directed by Orson Welles. The play was staged at the New Lafayette...

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