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Ubu Roi (1976 Television)
aka: King Ubu
- Director
- Paul Kafno
The play by Alfred Jarry. Pere Ubu is an oafish, barely ranking civil servant persuaded by his shrewish wife to kill the King of Poland and usurp the throne. Ubu is unfit to rule anything, so his eventual...
Ubu Roi (1976 Film, Television)
aka: King Ubu
- Director
- Jan Lenica
Made-for-television hand-drawn animated version of Alfred Jarry’s play. The play offers parodic adaptations of situations and plots from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III.
Richard and Bolingbroke: The John Coffin Memorial Literary Readings 1975 (1975 Video)
- Director
- David R Clark
- Producer
- David R Clark
John Barton talks with Ian Richardson and Richard Pasco about their alternating roles in Richard II in the Royal Shakespeare Company production. They illustrate their discussion with specially recorded...
King Lear (1975 Television)
- Series
- Play of the Month
- Director
- Jonathan Miller
- Producer
- Cedric Messina
Televised adaptation of the play with Michael Hordern in the title role and Frank Middlemass as the Fool.
Love’s Labour’s Lost (1975 Television)
- Series
- Play of the Month
- Director
- Basil Coleman
- Producer
- Cedric Messina
Televised adaptation of the play produced by Cedric Messina. With Martin Shaw (Ferdinand), Jeremy Brett (Berowne), Maurice Denham (Armado), Sinéad Cusack (Rosaline) and Jonathan Cecil (Holofernes).
Shakespeare and His Stage: Approaches to Hamlet (1975 Video)
- Series
- History of Drama
- Director
- Daniel Seltzer; Harold Mantell
- Producer
- Harold Mantell
Educational videotape. Attempts to recreate the Elizabethan theatre through the staging of scenes from Hamlet. Contrasts styles of playing with excerpts from performances by Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud,...
Sources of Shakespeare, The (1975 Radio)
Radio documentary. John Barton talks to Hallam Tennyson about Geoffrey Bullough’s book Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare.
That Hamlet was a Good Boy (1975 Radio)
- Series
- Cbs Radio Mystery Theatre
- Director
- Himan Brown
Radio drama. A mother announces to her son that his father is dead and his uncle will take over the glass factory business. The narrator quotes Hamlet’s ‘to be, or not to be speech’ and tells the...
Ides of March (1975 Radio)
- Series
- Cbs Radio Mystery Theatre
- Director
- Himan Brown
Syndicated radio drama by Sam Dann and narrated by E.G. Marshall. The play’s narrative contains some of the plot elements from Julius Caesar. Cassandra Morrow (the Calphurnia parallel) has a dream that...
Serpent’s Tooth, The (1975 Radio)
- Series
- Cbs Radio Mystery Theatre
- Director
- Himan Brown
Radio drama written by Sam Dann. The quotation ‘how sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is/To have a thankless child’ prefaces the programme. The story is set in 1900s Vienna where a kindly Jewish couple...