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15 results found for '"Lenny Henry"' in Person.
Staged 1592 (2021 Television)
Comedy Sketch. David Tenannt and Michael Sheen appear respectively as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe in the style of their lockdown comedy series, STAGED. Special guest appearance by Sir Lenny...
Looking for the Moor (2015 Radio)
- Series
- Sunday Feature
- Producer
- Roger James Elsgood
Radio broadcast. In preparing to take on the role of Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hugh Quarshie goes in search of the wisdom of others about the ethical conundrums of a black actor playing the...
Othello Across the Ages (2015 Radio)
- Series
- Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen
- Producer
- Simon Elmes
Radio series. Lenny Henry looks at the stage history of Othello.
Lenny Henry - Finding Shakespeare (2012 Television)
- Series
- Perspectives
- Director
- Elizabeth Dobson
Documentary. Lenny Henry tells how a comedian had a burning ambition to act in Shakespeare’s plays. There are brief extracts (rehearsal and performance) of Henry in Othello (Rutter’s 2009 production) and...
Macbeth, The Movie Star...and Me (2012 Television)
- Director
- Neil Leighton
- Producer
- Neil Leighton
Documentary. Actor David Harewood has five days to turn a group of teenagers from his old school, Washwood Heath Technology College, Birmingham into Shakespearean performers capable of appearing on the stage...
Comedy of Errors, The (2011 Video)
- Director
- Dominic Cooke
Video recording of Dominic Cooke’s 2011 production of The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre, London with Lenny Henry as Antipholus of Syracuse and Chris Jarman as Antipholus of Ephesus.
Othello (2010 Audio, Radio)
- Series
- Saturday Play, The
- Director
- Barrie Rutter
- Producer
- David Hunter
Radio adaptation of Barrie Rutter’s 2009 Northern Broadsides company production of the play at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds with Lenny Henry taking the title role.
Lenny Henry Plays Othello (2009 Radio)
- Producer
- Simon Elmes
Radio documentary following stand-up comedian Lenny Henry as he prepares to take on the role of Othello for Barrie Rutter’s production of the play at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. Covering...
From Just 14 Lines to the Complete Works (2007 Audio)
Comedian Lenny Henry and director Barrie Rutter talk about studying just 14 lines of Othello, and Peter Kirwan speaks on his year seeing every production in the RSC’s Complete Works Season.
Lenny and Will (2006 Radio)
- Producer
- Simon Elmes
Starting at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, comedian Lenny Henry goes in search of the secret of the bard’s success through interviews with well-known Shakespeare directors and interpreters, including...