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Amateur Shakespeare: Crossing Professional Borders, Empowering Communities (2021 Video)
Video. Recording of a conversation hosted by Professor Michael Dobson on non-professional drama groups with Pauline Scott of the Brownsea Island Open Air Theatre and Ian Wainwright of the Royal Shakespeare...
Best Bottoms in the Land: A Shakespearean Dream, The (2016 Television)
Six amateur actors from each of the English regions play the Mechanicals and perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Samuel West narrates. London: Tower Theatre from East...
Nations’ Best Am Dram, The (2012 Television)
Talent contest to find the best amateur dramatics company from among the UK’s c3,500 groups offering the winning troupe the chance to perform at the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End. The four remaining...
Intermission (2009 Film)
- Director
- Girard Swan
- Producer
- Girard Swan; Justin Howard
Independent feature film. A community theatre production of Hamlet is set to open when the production loses its lead actor. The company then, unknowingly, brings in a madman actor, who is convinced he...
Blast TV: Othello Retold (2009 Television)
- Series
- Blast TV
- Director
- Karen Chambers
- Producer
- Karen Chambers
Television documentary about MOBO (Music of Black Origin) winner and hip hop artist Akala and his mission to explore the parallels between hip hop and Shakespeare. Together with 50 young Manchester-based...
Kingdom [17/02/2008] (2008 Television)
- Series
- Kingdom
- Director
- Ed Hall
- Producer
- Georgina Lowe
Comedy drama series created by Simon Wheeler and starring Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk-based solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the locals who come to him for legal assistance....
One Hundred Not out - A Century of Shakespeare in Derby (2008 Radio)
Radio documentary on the history of the Derby Shakespeare Company, an amateur theatre company founded in 1908. Presenter Andy Potter traces the company’s links to Cornwall, explores the Alan Bates legacy,...
Bunch of Amateurs, A (2008 Film)
- Director
- Andy Cadiff
- Producer
- David Parfitt
Feature film comedy. Ageing Hollywood star (Burt Reynolds) signs up to play the title role in King Lear in Britain to revive his flagging career. He believes the role is part of a Royal Shakespeare Company...
Front Row [16/12/2008] (2008 Radio)
- Series
- Front Row
Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. A BUNCH OF AMATEURS, a British film comedy, opens this week with Burt Reynolds playing a washed-up Hollywood action star who finds himself playing the...
Merchant of Venice, The (2008 Film)
- Director
- Douglas Morse
- Producer
- Jess Crawford
The Merchant of Venice acted by students of the University of Cambridge directed by Douglas Morse. Tom Yarrow is Shylock.