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12 results found for '"magic"' in Keywords.
"Enter Prospero in His Magic Robes, And Ariel" (2016 Audio)
aka: Shakespeare and Magic
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Producer
- Richard Paul
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In The Tempest, the magician Prospero conjures up a storm, charms his daughter to sleep, and uses his power to control Ariel and other spirits. Is this magic...
Shakespeare’s Restless World: New Science, Old Magic (2012 Radio)
- Series
- Shakespeare’s Restless World
- Producer
- Paul Kobrak
Ninth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...
Tempest, The (2009 Television)
- Series
- South Bank Show, The
- Producer
- Paul Tickell
Anthology arts series. Examines why The Tempest, still holds such fascination for modern audiences. Melvyn Bragg investigates the events surrounding the writing of the play, including contemporary interest...
Capturing Macbeth (2008 Film)
- Director
- Leo Eaton
Documentary that goes behind the scenes during the final performances of a stage production of Macbeth, produced for the Folger Theater in Washington DC by Teller (the magician from Penn & Teller) and Aaron...
Magic (2007 Radio)
- Series
- Words and Music
- Producer
- Elizabeth Arno
Radio programme. Themed on the subject of magic in its many shades, this episode’s ‘Word and Music’ starts with Shakespeare, the theme of the year’s Proms season. Miriam Margoyles and Nicholas...
Rough Magyck (2006 Video)
Video recording of Forkbeard Fantasy’s Rough Magyck. Part outdoor, part indoor, Rough Magyck goes in search of the of the supernatural in Shakespeare mixing mechanical sets, film and cartoon, outlandish...
Rough Magic and Sweet Lullaby (2000 Radio)
- Series
- Shakespeare Lectures
- Producer
- Zahid Warley
BBC radio series. Six commissioned lectures on Shakespeare and his meaning in the modern world. In episode 5 writer and cultural historian Marina Warner considers Shakespeare’s use of the supernatural and...
Midsummer Night’s Dream / Richard II / Twelfth Night (2000 Video)
- Series
- Shakespeare: Text and Performance, Course Aa306
Four programmes relating to course AA306: Band 1) Staging Dreams: explores how magic can be represented in the modern theatre. Features extracts from several productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Band...
Midsummer Night’s Dream: What to Make of Magic, A (1998 Video)
- Series
- Staging Dreams: Casting and Interpreting Shakespeare
Educational videotape. What do fairies look like? How can magic be staged meaningfully in modern theatre? The programme presents scenes from several filmed versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that show...
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1994 Radio)
- Series
- Play of the Week (BBC World Service)
- Director
- Hilary Norrish
Two-part production of Shakespeare’s play, with a Caribbean cast, set in Trinidad during carnival time. Aiming to enliven Shakespeare’s play by a different cultural context, director Hilary Norrish...