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  • Viol (2005 Television)

    Director
    Luc Bondy

    Television production of Viol (Rape) directed by Luc Bondy and using a French translation of Botha Strauss’ play Schaendung, informed by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Gerard Desarthe is Titus.

  • Romeo et Juliette a la Havane (2005 Television)

    aka: Shakespeare and His Masks

    Director
    Markus Behrens

    Gounod’s ballet choreographed by Alicia Alfonso and danced by the National Ballet of Cuba.

  • Rose et la Hache, La (2005 Video)

    aka: Rose and the Axe, The

    Director
    Georges Lavaudant

    Carmelo Bene’s production of Richard III re-created and directed by Georges Lavaudant.

  • Nuit de la Verite, La (2004 Film)

    aka: Night of Truth, The

    Director
    Fanta Régina Nacro
    Producer
    Claire-Agnes Lajournard; Fanta Régina Nacro

    Feature film. A parable set in a fictitious West African country rent by 10 years of tribal conflict between the ruling Nayak and the rebel Bonande. The director has stated that she saw Shakespearean...

  • Hamlet (2004 Video)

    Director
    Toni Bargallo

    A video recording of Ambroise Thomas’ five-act opera directed for stage by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser, and for video by Toni Bargallo. The Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu...

  • Falstaff (2004 Television, Video)

    Director
    André Flédérick

    Verdi’s opera. The Orchestra and Chorus of the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie de Bruxelles are conducted by Sylvain Cambreling with José van Dam as Falstaff. The production, first staged in 1983, is directed...

  • Grand Role, Le (2004 Film)

    aka: Great Role, The

    Director
    Steve Suissa

    Feature film. A tragicomedy about an actor and his dying wife. Maurice Kurz (Freiss) is a forty-something jobbing actor who has never had a big career break. One day a world-renowned director Grichenberg...

  • Amleto, La Veemente Esteriorità Della Morte di un Mollusco (2004 Video)

    aka: Hamlet, The Vehement Externalism of a Mollusc’s Death

    Director
    Romeo Castellucci

    A re-interpretation and deconstruction of Hamlet by Renato Castellucci. Amleto has only one performer, a child, who recites extracts of text, only one of which is recognisably from Hamlet. It is a study of...

  • Makibefo (2003 Film)

    Director
    Alexander Abela
    Producer
    Alexander Abela

    Feature film. Adaptation of Macbeth filmed in Faux Cap, Madagascar and acted (largely improvised) by Antroyds, a local tribe of fishermen.

  • Souli (2003 Film)

    Director
    Alexander Abela
    Producer
    Alexander Abela; Duthoit. Christophe

    A post-colonial version of Othello transposed to a remote Madagascan fishing village. Abela condenses the action into five characters and little is spoken. Souli (Makena) is a poet, only writing for himself....