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85 results found for '"Ian McKellen"' in Person.

  • Ian McKellen on Playing Hamlet (2022 Audio)

    aka: Episode 194

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Garland Scott; Matt Frassica

    Podcast. Sir Ian McKellen talks to Barbara Bogaev about Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Most recently he played the title role in Sean Mathias’ 2021 gender-, race-, and age-blind production at the Theatre Royal...

  • Hamlet Within (2022 Film)

    aka: Hamlet Revenant

    Director
    Ken McMullen
    Producer
    Ken McMullen

    An essay film, part fiction and part documentary, that explores how Hamlet haunts audiences and the play’s characters, drawing on the work of Marx and Derrida among others.

  • Ian McKellen on Richard III, Macbeth, And Gandalf (2022 Audio)

    aka: Episode 195

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Garland Scott; Matt Frassica

    Podcast. Second part of an episode in which Sir Ian McKellen talks to Barbara Bogaev about Shakespeare. Here he discusses playing Macbeth opposite Dame Judi Dench in 1979 (qv) and his 1995 film version of...

  • Shakespeare den (2022 Television)

    Series
    Dengineers, The
    Director
    Andrew Hassall
    Producer
    Andrew Hassall; Matthew Peacock

    Makeover show aimed at younger viewers, hosted by Joe Tracini and Meryl Fernandes. In this episode they help history buff Hector from Wigan, who is a huge fan of William Shakespeare. He needs a space of his...

  • National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018 Video)

    Director
    Jonathan Munby

    A recording, from London’s Duke of York theatre, of Shakespeare’s tragedy broadcast live to UK and international cinemas on 27 September 2018 by National Theatre Live.

  • All is True (2018 Film)

    Director
    Kenneth Branagh

    Starting in 1613, this is a biographical drama written by Ben Elton about the final years in the life of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon after the Globe Theatre burned to the ground. Kenneth...

  • Tempest, The (2016 Multimedia)

    The Tempest is the first in a collection of thirty-seven separate apps. Ian McKellen and Jonathan Bate use the Arden Shakespeare texts and their extensive essays and notes to examine the play. The app...

  • Dresser, The (2015 Television)

    Director
    Richard Eyre

    An adaptation for television of Ronald Harwood’s play, based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. The story relates the complex relationship between Sir, an ageing...

  • David Harewood (2014 Television)

    aka: Shakespeare Uncovered

    Series
    My Shakespeare
    Producer
    Richard Denton

    Series in which an actor explores a work by Shakespeare, revealing a personal connection to the work and how it has shaped them professionally. They investigate how their chosen play was written, as well as...

  • Christopher Plummer (2014 Television)

    aka: Shakespeare Uncovered

    Series
    My Shakespeare
    Producer
    Richard Denton

    Series in which an actor explores a work by Shakespeare, revealing a personal connection to the work and how it has shaped them professionally. They investigate how their chosen play was written, as well as...