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  • Laurence Olivier Presents King Lear (2002 Television)

    Director
    Michael Elliott
    Producer
    David Plowright

    Television production of the play, set in the year 800 and staged entirely in Granada’s Manchester studio, and one of the few not based on a prior stage production. With music specially composed by Gordon...

  • Richard III (1995 Film, Video)

    Director
    Richard Loncraine
    Producer
    Lisa Katselas Pare; Stephen Bayly

    Film version of Shakespeare’s play derived from Richard Eyre’s National Theatre production. Set in a context of 1930s’ fascism, where Mosley’s troops have taken power.

  • My Own Private Idaho (1991 Film)

    Director
    Gus Van Sant
    Producer
    Allan Mindel

    Feature film. A story about street hustlers that incorporates a reworking of the Hal/King Henry/Falstaff triangle. Some of the dialogue is taken from Henry IV Part 1.

  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990 Film, Video)

    Director
    Tom Stoppard
    Producer
    Emanuel Azenberg; Michael Brandman

    Tom Stoppard’s film adaptation of his play based on characters in Hamlet.

  • Romuald et Juliette (1989 Film)

    aka: There’s a Man in Your Bed

    Director
    Coline Serreau
    Producer
    Philippe Carcassonne; Jean-Noel Piel

    A modern version of the Romeo and Juliet story, here between a rich white businessman and his black cleaning woman.

  • Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1984 Film)

    aka: Suena de una Noche de Verano

    Director
    Celestino Coronado
    Producer
    David Haughton; Lindsay Kemp

    Opera, ballet and pantomime are incorporated into this adaptation which is derived from a Lindsay Kemp stage production at Sadler’s Wells. Titania (The Incredible Orlando) is a drag queen; the Indian boy...

  • Mephisto (1981 Film)

    Director
    István Szabó

    Feature film which details the rise of a Faustian character who figuratively sells his soul in exchange for greatness. Hendrik Hoefgen (Brandauer) is the head of a state-funded theatre department who tires...

  • Romeu e Julieta (1980 Film, Television, Video)

    aka: Romeo and Juliet

    Director
    Paulo Alfonso Grisolli

    Made-for-television film. A modernised version of Romeo and Juliet created round the historic town of Ouro Preto in Brazil. Romeo and Juliet are two students from the north-eastern state of Minas Gerais,...

  • Tempest, The (1979 Film)

    Director
    Derek Jarman
    Producer
    Guy Ford; Mordecai Schreiber

    Low-budget adaptation of the play using chiaroscuro lighting, location shooting, unusual casting, and eccentric costuming. The film remains faithful to the spirit of the play. Jarman’s understanding of the...

  • Hamlet (1976 Film)

    Director
    Celestino Coronado

    Feature film adaptation of the play. An abbreviated version in heightened style by actors wearing exaggerated make-up and stylised costumes. Hamlet is played by twin actors to show him as literally a split...