Joseph Papp Discusses the Movie ‘Den Tragiska Historien om Hamlet-Prins av Denmark’

Synopsis: Joseph Papp comments on the made-for-television film DER TRAGISKAHISTORIEN OM HAMLET-PRINS AB DENMARK broadcast on WNYC-TV. Includes Papp’s introduction to the film, his comments during the interval, and discussion following the film with Diane Venora who played Hamlet in Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival production in 1983. Papp comments on Lyth’s amendments to Shakespeare’s text speaking of the many differences involved in producing Shakespeare for stage and screen. Diane Venora discusses the film as artistic endavour and Papp’s decision to cast her as Hamlet. Includes a clip of Venora playing the dying Hamlet from the television adaptation of the New York Shakespeare Festival production.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 1987 (Channel: WNYC-TV)
Duration: 24 mins

Notes: The fact that the programme includes a clip from a televised version of the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet is cited in the Theatre on Film and Tape catalogue entry - no further details on a television recording have been found. The footage is likely to be from the documentary on the production REHEARSING HAMLET.
History: Exact transmission date not known.

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