From Bard to Verse. Episode 7

Synopsis
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 7 - Ralf Little performs ‘Now the hungry lion roars’ from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (V i), Ronni Ancona reads Sonnet 27 ‘Weary with toil I haste me to my bed’, Daniela Nardini performs ‘I pray thee gentle mortal, sing again’ from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (iii i), Delroy Atkinson, Ashley Campbell and Oliver Mason perform ‘Double, double toil and trouble’ from Macbeth (iv i). Fraser James performs ‘This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune’ from King Lear (I ii). Anthony Head performs ‘the lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact’ from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (V i), Leo Gregory performs ‘The reason is your spirits are attentive’ from The Merchant of Venice (V i), Delroy Atkinson, Ashley Campbell and Oliver Mason perform ‘Under the greenwood tree’ who loves to lie with me’ from As You Like It (II v), Kathryn Drysdale performs ‘How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank’ from The Merchant of Venice (V i), Stephen Tompkinson performs ‘Music do I hear? Ha, Ha! Keep time. How sour sweet music is’ from Richard II (V v), Simon Pegg performs ‘I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth’ from Hamlet (II ii) and David Walliams performs ‘You do look my son, in a mov’d sort, as if you were dismay’d from The Tempest (IV i).
Series
From Bard to Verse
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Television
Technical information
Colour / Sound
Transmission details
10 Apr 2004 at 19:15 (Channel: BBC3)
Duration
15 mins

Credits

Cast
Anthony HeadTheseus
Ashley CampbellAmiens
Ashley CampbellWitch
Daniela NardiniTitania
David WalliamsProspero
Delroy AtkinsonAmiens
Delroy AtkinsonWitch
Fraser JamesEdmund
Kathryn DrysdaleLorenzo
Leo GregoryLorenzo
Oliver MasonWitch
Oliver MasonAmiens
Ralf LittlePuck (Robin Goodfellow)
Ronni Ancona 
Seeta IndraniJuliet
Simon PeggHamlet
Stephen TompkinsonKing Richard II

Additional Details

Production type
Documentary/Educational/News
Subjects
Drama; English language and literature
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Production Company

Name

Baby Cow Productions

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Name

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