SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

An advertisement for Pizza Hut and their ‘stuffed crust pizza’. Peter O’Toole on stage (at an audition?) reciting "to be or not to be that is the question/Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer". The director in the stalls stops him and asks him to try it backwards. O’Toole replies ‘certainly’ and recites ‘to be or not to be, that is the question’ backwards. The director says that he meant the pizza; O’Toole replies ‘I knew that’ and bites into the crust of the pizza.

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Film

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

1996

Recording date

1995

Duration

30 secs.

Credits

Contributor

Peter O’Toole

Additional Details

Production type

Advertising/Trailers/Promos

Plays

Hamlet

Subjects

Drama; Media studies

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXVKty6GVd0 (accessed 7/2015).

General

The agency is BBDO Worldwide. The commercial premiered on New Year’s Day 1996 and was filmed in a New York theatre.

Sponsor

Name

Pizza Hut