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  • Edinburgh 2019: Shakespeare for Breakfast and Paines Plough’s Roundabout (2019 Audio)

    Series
    British Theatre Guide Podcast

    Podcast. The director Damian Sandys talks about how Shakespeare for Breakfast, which offers a modernised version of a Shakespeare play with coffee and buns, has been a perennial at the Edinburgh Festival...

  • The King’s Lynn Shakespeare Festival 2019: Ages of Man (2019 Video)

    Recording of a lecture / performance by actor Andrew Jarvis, the organiser of the King’s Lynn festival, with musical accompaniment from the Easy Anglian Renaissance Consort. It begins with the ‘All the...

  • Dark Side of the Dream (2019 Audio)

    Series
    Such Stuff

    Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. In the context of the Globe’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this edition looks at the darkness in Shakespeare’s comedies...

  • Ambition Follows (2019 Audio)

    aka: Henry VI Part 2 - Act I Scene 1

    Series
    Chop Bard
    Producer
    Shannon Sneedse

    Looking in detail at the the opening Act and Scene of Henry VI part 2. Suffolk returns with England’s new queen.

  • Merry Wives of Windsor, The (2019 Video)

    Series
    RSC Live from Stratford Upon Avon
    Director
    Fiona Laird

    Live recording of this moderrn-day production by Fiona Laird.

  • Scuffles, Swagger and Shakespeare: The Hidden Story of English (2019 Television)

    Director
    Chris Nikkel

    Shakespeare is often credited with revolutionising English, but is the real story more complex? Dr John Gallagher uncovers the surprising tale of how English conquered the world. Contributors to the...

  • Branding Genius (2019 Radio)

    Producer
    Ellie Richold

    Radio documentary. Graphic designer Teresa Monachino looks at who owns Shakespeare in terms of branding and how the name and image have been commercialised. Contributors include: Professor Michael Dobson...

  • Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words (2019 Television)

    Director
    Michael Nunn

    Feature-length adaptation of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s version of the Prokofiev ballet starring William Bracewell as Romeo, Francesca Hayward as Juliet with members of The Royal Ballet. Shakespeare’s story...

  • What Country, Friends, Is This? (2019 Audio)

    Series
    Such Stuff

    Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. In the light of Brexit, this edition looks at the Globe’s staging of the Henriad, the importance of re-examining history as well as...

  • Macbeth (2019 Television)

    Series
    Sar Sgeoil

    Cathy MacDonald finds the Gaelic roots of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and explores the landscape where the real history happened. Cathy discovers that the real King Macbeth was very different to Shakespeare’s...