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  • Plague o’ Both Your Houses, A (2022 Video)

    aka: Shakespeare in the Park: A Plague o’ Both Your Houses!

    Director
    Angela Newell

    A brief play by Angela Newell that brings together various extracts from Shakespeare’s plays that deal with medicine and health issues. These include King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet. CAST:...

  • Bard and the Dame, The (2022 Audio)

    Series
    Long Read, The

    Podcast. Host Michael Wright speaks to Philip Matthews about the important role played by crime novelist Ngaio Marsh in producing and directing Shakespeare productions in Christchurch, New Zealand from the...

  • William Shakespeare: To Cancel or Not to Cancel? Sheilah Winn Funding Cut. (2022 Radio)

    Radio broadcast. Coverage of the decision by the New Zealand government to cut its support for the annual secondary school Shakespeare Festival amid claims that the playwright’s work promotes a ‘canon of...

  • Shakespearean Spinach (2015 Video)

    Series
    Alice Griffin Lecture

    The 2015 Alice Griffin lecture given by Professor Peter Holland. What do Popeye, the Dude, R2-D2 and Quentin Tarantino have in common? Professor Holland is fascinated by the burgeoning world of...

  • To die or Not to die (2015 Television)

    Series
    Brokenwood Mysteries, The
    Director
    Murray Keane

    New Zealand crime drama. In this episode the lead actor in an amateur production of Hamlet dies on stage just at the end of the play. Detective Mike Shepherd investigates a case of cyanide poisoning. The...

  • Romeo and Juliet: A Love Song (2013 Film)

    Director
    Tim van Dammen
    Producer
    Alastair Carruthers; Tim van Dammen; Michael A.J. O’Neill

    Shakespeare’s play retold in a contemporary trailer park rock opera.

  • Tangata Whai Rawa o Weniti, Te (2003 Film)

    aka: Maori Merchant of Venice,the

    Director
    Don C. Selwyn
    Producer
    Ruth Kaupua Panapa; Linda Fenwick

    Feature film. A Maori-language adaptation of The Merchant of Venice.

  • God and Shakespeare (2001 Film)

    Director
    Sandor Lau
    Producer
    Simon Farrell-Green

    Fiction short. A western-style shoot out on a beach between God and Shakespeare - the protagonists quote variously from Shakespeare and the Bible.

  • One Perfect Moment (1996 Television)

    Series
    For Art’s Sake
    Director
    Ross Jolly

    Arts magazine series. An extract (4:50 secs) from this episode shows performer, director and teacher, Elric Hooper, returning to the stage of the University of Canterbury theatre where he played Puck in...

  • The Dream (1991 Video)

    Documentary about Auckland University’s Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream presented by an actor in Shakespearean costume. Director Christian Penny talks about her wish to make the...