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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.