Almeida. Jonathan Kent (2000 Video)

Series

Theater Talk

Director

Adam Walker

Director Jonathan Kent is interviewed by Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins. Kent directed the Almeida productions of Richard II and Coriolanus starring Ralph Fiennes, which played to sold-out houses at the...

Play’s the Thing, The (2000 Television)

Series

Early Edition

Director

Deborah Reinisch

A television series created by Ian Abrams set in Chicago. It followed the adventures of a man, Gary Hobson (Chandler), who mysteriously receives each Chicago Sun-Times newspaper the day before it is actually...

As You Like It (2000 Audio)

Director

Sean Holmes

Live sound recording of Sean Holmes’ 2000 touring production of As You Like It for NT Education with Sophie Bold as Rosalind. The recording includes a pre-play acting workshop (c40 mins), the play itself,...

Hamlet (2000 Video)

Director

Karin Coonrod

Video recording of Hamlet directed by Karin Coonrod for the California Shakespeare Festival. Steven Skybell is Hamlet.

Most Heavenly Music! (2000 Radio)

Series

Performance on 3

A concert for the 2000 Stratford-upon-Avon English Music Festival. The BBC Singers come to Holy Trinity Church in a programme of 19th-century music and settings of Shakespeare. Pieces are: Mendelssohn...

Assume a Virtue: A Documentary About Being in the Theatre (2000 Video)

Director

Oden Be’eri

In 1992 Hovhaness I. Pilikian directed a production of Hamlet. The film by Oded Be’eri looks at the rehearsals and performances of the production.

Richard III: An Arab Tragedy (2000 Video)

Director

Sulayman al-Bassam

A video recording of the Sulayman al-Bassam Theatre’s production of Richard III with Fayez Kazak as King Richard. The production was commissioned for the Complete Works Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon....

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2000 Audio, Radio)

Series

Drama on One

Director

Daniel Rearden

A performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream broadcast live from King John’s Castle. Limerick. Barry McGovern is Oberon and Ann Marie Horan is Titania. Introduction by Senator David Norris.

Twenty Minutes: Anatomy of a Speech [19/04/2000] (2000 Radio)

aka: Anatomy of a Speech

Series

Twenty Minutes

Radio broadcast. The second of two programmes in which writers and performers reflect on the power of Shakespeare’s language. In this episode Shakespeare’s portrayal of Shylock is discussed through his...

Twenty Minutes: Anatomy of a Speech [18/04/2000] (2000 Radio)

aka: Anatomy of a Speech

Series

Twenty Minutes

Radio broadcast. The first of two programmes in which writers and performers reflect on the power of Shakespeare’s language. This episode discusses how Enobarbus’ words "age cannot whither her, nor...

Human Touch, A (2000 Radio)

Series

Lend Me Your Ears

Producer

Kate McAll

Radio broadcast. Series in which Fiona Shaw tries to recreate the sounds of England during Shakespeare’s time.

Barking, Bonging and Begging (2000 Radio)

Series

Lend Me Your Ears

Producer

Kate McAll

Radio broadcast. Series in which Fiona Shaw tries to recreate the sounds of England during Shakespeare’s time. In this episode Shaw finds London alive with church bells, hawkers and ballad singers singing...

Secrets and Whispers (2000 Radio)

Series

Lend Me Your Ears

Producer

Kate McAll

Radio broadcast. Series in which Fiona Shaw tries to recreate the sounds of England during Shakespeare’s time. Princes and ambassadors may expect a private audience at the court of Queen Elizabeth, but...

Within the Wooden o (2000 Radio)

Series

Lend Me Your Ears

Producer

Kate McAll

Radio broadcast. Series in which Fiona Shaw tries to recreate the sounds of England during Shakespeare’s time. In the final episode Shaw considers what sounds the stage audiences would have heard in 1600.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (2000 Radio)

Series

BBC Orchestras

Producer

Simon Lord

Radio broadcast. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins performs Elgar’s Falstaff- Symphonic Study in C minor. Op. 68.

Stage Fight Director, The (1999 Video)

Instructional. Master combat choreographer David Boushey in several weeks of rehearsals for a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

Heavy Metal Hamlet (1999 Video)

Director

Jacqui Carroll

An experimental interpretation of Hamlet. "Hamlet is placed at the centre of the maelstrom and Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius and all the other players circle around him. As Hamlet floats on the waves they swim...

Laurence Olivier: Henry V (1999 Radio)

Series

Centurians

Producer

Lawrence Pollard

Radio programme. !0 years after his death, what is Olivier’s cultural legacy? By cutting the theatre text of Henry V he created a film of patriotic wartime propaganda which still colours perceptions of...

Musical and Shakespeare, The (1999 Radio)

Series

Morley at the Musicals

Producer

Sheridan Morley

Sheridan Morley presents a series on the history of the stage musical. This episode focuses on shows Kiss Me Kate, The Boys from Syracuse and West Side Story as well as other shows inspired by Shakespearean...

Writing to Veronica (1999 Radio)

Series

Her Infinite Variety

Director

Ned Chaillet

Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 1: Faced with parental disapproval of the boy of her choice young Juliet turns to the internet and agony art Veronica.

Talking to My Shrink (1999 Radio)

Series

Her Infinite Variety

Director

Sarah Brown

Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 2: Confronted by the increasingly maddening (and mad) behaviour of her boyfriend, a nineties Ophelia discusses the nature of...

Diary of a Dutiful Daughter (1999 Radio)

Series

Her Infinite Variety

Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 3: Faced with a doddering dad and a nursing home she runs as a business, what can a modern Goneril do but offer him the box...

And All That Jazz (1999 Radio)

Series

Her Infinite Variety

Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 4: Count Orso offers a modern Viola a spectacular twelfth night, with a wardrobe beyond most cross-dressers’ dreams.

Dirty Linen (1999 Radio)

Series

Her Infinite Variety

Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 5: Everyone thought Rooky would tame the shrewish Cat, but 20 years on their tempestuous marriage is played out in a national...

George Lucas in Love (1999 Film)

Director

Joe Nussbaum

Producer

Joseph Levy

Independent short. 1967. A young student struggles to write a screenplay that will combine STAR WARS with SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.

School Play (1999 Television)

aka: Season 3, Episode 19

Series

Hey Arnold!

Director

Steve Scocki

Arnold is cast as Romeo in a school production of "Romeo and Juliet".

Dancing Partners (1999 Television)

aka: Season 1, Episode 3

Series

Welcome to Orty-Fou

Director

Roger Singleton-Turner

Producer

Roger Singleton-Turner

Having landed the role of Romeo in "Romeo an Juliet" , Jeremy discovers that tights are standard issue.

Antony and Cleopatra (1999 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Bill Shepherd; Tom Treadwell

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Estelle...

As You Like It (1999 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. Niamh Cusack is Rosalind.

Hamlet (1999 Audio)

Series

BBC Radio Collection

Director

Jeremy Mortimer

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

Radio broadcast of Hamlet. Michael Sheen as Hamlet, Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beavan as Ophelia. Introduced by Richard Eyre.

Henry IV. Part 1 (1999 Audio)

Series

BBC Radio Collection

Henry IV Part 1, adapted for radio, with Julian Glover as King Henry and Jamie Glover as Prince Hal. Introduced by Richard Eyre.

Henry VI Part 1 (1999 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with David...

Henry VI Part 2 (1999 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with David...

Henry VI Part 3 (1999 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with David...

Julius Caesar (1999 Audio)

Series

BBC Radio Collection

Director

Eoin O’Callaghan

Julius Caesar, adapted for radio, with Gerard Murphy as Caesar. Introduced by Richard Eyre.

King Lear (1999 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. Trevor Peacock is Lear and...

Merchant of Venice, The (1999 Video)

Director

Trevor Nunn

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the National Theatre’s 1999 production of The Merchant of Venice directed by Trevor Nunn with Henry Goodman as Shylock.

William Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1999 Film)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Director

Michael Hoffman

Producer

Michael Hoffman; Leslie Urdang

Film adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in Tuscany in the 1890s.

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999 Audio)

Series

BBC Radio Collection

Director

Susan Roberts

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, adapted for radio, with David Threlfall as Oberon and Sylvestra le Touzel as Titania. Introduced by Richard Eyre.

Othello (1999 Video)

Director

Michael Attenborough

Video recording using three cameras of a performance of Othello, directed by Michael Attenborough, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Ray Fearon is Othello and Richard McCabe, Iago.

Romeo and Juliet (1999 Audio)

Series

BBC Radio Collection

Romeo and Juliet, adapted for radio by Peter Kavanagh, with Douglas Henshall as Romeo and Sophie Dahl as Juliet. The production is set in Verona, in the urban and urbane cafe-society of modern Italy

Titus (1999 Film, Video)

Director

Julie Taymor

Producer

Julie Airoldi; Jody Patton; Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor’s film version of Titus Andronicus, based on her 1994 off-Broadway production, with Anthony Hopkins as Titus and Jessica Lange as Tamora. This adaptation is both ‘stylised and...

Titus Andronicus (1999 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with David...

Two Noble Kinsmen (1999 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Jonathan...

William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama (1999 Television, Video)

Series

A&E Biography

Director

Rebecca Jones

Producer

Rebecca Jones

A biography of Shakespeare. Details the major themes in his life and the development of his career in the London theatre. Includes readings by Germaine Greer and Edward Petherbridge of several sonnets and...

Winter’s Tale, The: A Production Casebook (1999 Video)

This Royal Shakespeare Company production from the 1998/1999 season, recorded at the Barbican, is presented as a production casebook - an edited version of the production and interviews with key members of...

Shakespeare at Covent Garden (1999 Audio)

Henry R. Bishop’s songs for Shakespearean productions at Covent Garden 1816-21. Philip Pickett conducts the Musicians of the Globe. Songs include ‘Lo Here the Gentle Lark’, ‘Bid Me Discourse’' and...

Orson Welles’ Julius Caesar (1999 Audio)

aka: Julius Caesar Caesar

Series

Mercury Text Records

Director

Orson Welles

A Mercury Theatre production. Stage directions and scenes not recorded are narrated by Welles. The Mercury Text recording makes no attempt to re-create the Broadway production. Also includes Maurice Evans...

Filth and the Fury, The (1999 Film)

Director

Julien Temple

Producer

Anita Camarata; Amanda Temple

Documentary film on the punk band, The Sex Pistols, narrated primarily in voiceover from band members. They discuss how and why it all happened and how far their manager, Malcolm McLaren, (not interviewed)...

Troilus and Cressida (1999 Video)

Director

Trevor Nunn

A National Theatre recording, on a single, fixed camera of the production directed by Trevor Nunn; Peter de Jersey as Troilus and Sophie Okonedo as Cressida.