Man (1999 Film)

Director

Antoinette Starkiewicz

Producer

Mark Gould

Animation short. A life drawing class is caught in the act of capturing the male nude on paper. Words spoken are from Shakespeare.

Merchant/Venice (1999 Video)

aka: Merchant of Venice, The

Director

Noel Salzman

Independent, experimental video. A re-working of The Merchant of Venice, that includes text from Kathy Acker’s reinterpretation of the play. Makes extensive use of live and pre-recorded video, and employs...

Let the Devil Wear Black (1999 Film)

Director

Stacy Title

Producer

Matt Salinger

Feature film. A noir psychological thriller, loosely based on Hamlet, and set in modern-day Los Angeles. Jack (Penner), a troubled professional student, is convinced of treachery after the recent death of...

Falstaff - Live from the Royal Opera House (1999 Radio, Television)

Director

Humphrey Burton

Producer

Susan Judd

Verdi’s opera in a production by Graham Vick and directed for television by Humphrey Burton. The Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra are conducted by Bernard Haitink. Introduced for television by James...

Pericles (1999 Video)

Director

Laird Williamson

Video recording of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production directed for the stage by Laird Williamson and videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker.

Titus Andronicus (1999 Video)

Director

Terrence O’Brien

Video recording of the play produced for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival directed for stage by Terrence O’Brien.

Macbeth (1999 Video)

Director

Ron Daniels

Video recording of the play directed for stage by Ron Daniels and videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Penny Ward. Bill Camp as Macbeth and Elizabeth Marvel as Lady Macbeth.

King John (1999 Video)

Director

Michael Kahn

Video recording of the play directed for stage by Michael Kahn and videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker. Philip Goodwin as King John.

Shakespeare Dance Trilogy (1999 Video)

aka: Romeo and Juliet Moor’s Pavane, The Hamlet

Director

A. Murgazin

Producer

Felix Slidovker

Three dances inspired by Shakespeare’s works danced by members of the Kirov Ballet and recorded on location at a medieval castle. The dances are linked by the framing device of a troupe of players. Romeo...

Global Shakespeare (1999 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Trade, The

Producer

Jane Greenwood (2)

Five-part radio series in which Professor Peter Holland talks to writers, actors and critics about aspects of Shakespeare’s work. In the final episode he talks to Terence Hawkes and Ania Loomba about the...

Shakespeare in...and out (1999 Film)

Director

Peter Shustari

Producer

Peter Shustari

Feature film. Rich Longfellow (Shank) is a young aspiring actor who dreams of playing Hamlet. He moves from a small town in Ohio to Los Angeles, certain that he will star in major motion pictures before...

Twelfth Night (1999 Audio)

Series

New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio

Director

David Timson

An unabridged recording of the play using the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition edited by Elizabeth Story Donno. Stella Gonet is Olivia.

Rome & Jewels (1999 Video)

Director

Rennie Harris

Preview of a work described in the programme notes as ‘an amalgam of Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story with the aesthetic of contemporary hip hop’. Choreography and direction by Rennie Harris, musical...

Shylock (1999 Video)

Director

Frank Barrie

Producer

Danny Nissim; Stephen Davies

Documentary about Gareth Armstrong’s SHYLOCK, a one-person show written and performed by Armstrong and directed by Frank Barrie. Includes a backstage interview with Armstong in which he discusses the...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999 Television)

Series

Summer Dance

Director

Ross MacGibbon

Producer

Nigel Shepherd

Ballet. George Balanchine’s ballet, music by Mendelssohn, danced by Pacific Northwest Ballet and recorded at the Sadler’s Wells theatre in February 1999. The vocal pieces are sung by Libby Crabtree and...

Macbeth in Manhattan (1999 Film)

Director

Greg Lombardo

Producer

Joe Gagen; Victoria Lang

Feature film comedy. A group of young actors rehearsing a production of Macbeth find their roles are reflecting and shaping their personalities. Claudia (Gloria Reuben) and Max (David Lansbury) both audition...

Hamlet (1999 Video)

Series

Exploring Shakespeare

Producer

Chip Taylor

Educational videotape. Extracts from five key speeches and soliloquies from Hamlet examined to highlight Hamlet’s indecision and turmoil throughout the play. The extracts are: I ii ‘O, that this too, too...

Julius Caesar (1999 Video)

Series

Exploring Shakespeare

Director

Mario Resnick

Educational videotape. Extracts from three key scenes from Julius Caesar examined to explore the relationship between Brutus and Cassius. The scenes are: I ii ‘Brutus, I do observe you now of late...'; II...

King Lear (1999 Video)

Series

Exploring Shakespeare

Director

Mario Resnick

Educational videotape. Extracts from three key scenes from King Lear examined to explore Lear’s descent into madness. The scenes are: I iii ‘How now, what art thou?'; I v ‘If a man’s brains...'; II...

Macbeth (1999 Video)

Series

Exploring Shakespeare

Educational videotape. Extracts from four key scenes from Macbeth examined to explore the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The scenes are: I Vii ‘It if were done...'; II ii ‘That which hath...

Yes, Sir Nigel (1999 Television)

Series

Omnibus

Director

Ian Leese

Television arts documentary series. A profile of Nigel Hawthorne as he prepares to play the title role in King Lear, directed by Ninagawa, for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The programme follows him through...

Getting Started (1999 Video)

Series

Making of a Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Three-part educational series which shows the backstage and onstage production of the 1999 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Richard Monette. The first...

Work in Progress (1999 Video)

Series

Making of a Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Three-part educational series which shows the backstage and onstage production of the 1999 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Richard Monette. The second...

Performance, The (1999 Video)

Series

Making of a Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Three-part educational series which shows the backstage and onstage production of the 1999 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Richard Monette. The third and...

Hamlet, Prinz von Danemark (1999 Television)

aka: Hamlet

Series

Mystery Science Theatre 3000

Director

Mike J. Nelson

Producer

Kevin Murphy

Cult US comedy/sci-fi series created by Joel Hodgson. When mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Trace Beaulieu) and his assistant Frank (Frank Conniff) get bored with their work at the Deep Thirteen Research...

Antony and Cleopatra (1999 Video)

Director

Giles Block

Video recording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre all-male production of Antony and Cleopatra with Mark Rylance as Cleopatra.

Comedy of Errors, The (1999 Video)

Director

Kathryn Hunter

A video recording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s 1999 Arabian-themed production of The Comedy of Errors directed by Kathryn Hunter.

Julius Caesar (1999 Video)

Director

Mark Rylance

A video recording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s 1999 all-male production of Julius Caesar directed by Mark Rylance; Mark Lewis Jones as Mark Antony and Paul Shelley as Julius Caesar.

Never Been Kissed (1999 Film)

Director

Raja Gosnell

Producer

Sandy Isaac; Juvonen. Nancy

Feature film. A high-school, teen movie. Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore), a straightlaced 25-year-old copy editor on the Chicago Sun-Times, is commissioned to write an undercover expose on life in high school....

Hiroyuki Sanada: A Challenge Started from Nothing (1999 Television)

Director

Hiroyuki Sanada

A Japanese television documentary about the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King Lear directed by Yukio Ninagawa starring Nigel Hawthorne as Lear. The programme is directed by Hiroyuki Sanada who...

Such Sweet Thunder (1999 Audio)

Sound recording. Duke Ellington’s suite, in collaboration with Billy Strayhorn, in tribute to Shakespeare, commissioned by, and dedicated to, the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. It was premiered...

Monday Night Clive [14/06/1999] (1999 Television)

Series

Monday Night Clive

Director

Brian Klein

Producer

Andy Rowe

Chat show hosted by Clive James. Kenneth Branagh as a guest speaks of how his love of Shakespeare was formed partly by hearing Peter Sellers intoning The Beatles’s song ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ in the...

Antony and Cleopatra (1999 Video)

Director

Steven Pimlott

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 production of Antony and Cleopatra. Directed by Steven Pimlott with Alan Bates as Antony and Frances de la Tour as...

Kick (1999 Film)

aka: James

Director

Linda Heys

Producer

Mariel Beros; Sharon Kruger; Ross Matthews

Feature film about high school student and rugby champion Matt Grant, whose secret passion is ballet dancing. When he auditions for a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Sydney Opera House, he has to face...

King Lear (1999 Video)

Director

Yukio Ninagawa

A video recording, using a single fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 co-production of King Lear. Directed by Yukio Ninagawa with Nigel Hawthorne as Lear and Sanada Hiroyuki as the Fool.

Timon of Athens (1999 Video)

Director

Gregory Doran

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 production of Timon of Athens. Directed by Gregory Doran with Michael Pennington as Timon.

Troilus and Cressida (1999 Video)

Director

Michael Boyd

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 touring production of Troilus and Cressida. Directed by Michael Boyd with William Houston as Troilus and Jayne...

Taming of the Shrew, The (1999 Video)

Director

Lindsay Posner

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 touring production of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Lindsay Posner with Monica Dolan as Katherine and Stuart...

Orson Welles’ The Merchant of Venice (1999 Audio)

aka: Merchant of Venice, The

Series

Mercury Text Records

The complete Columbia/Mercury recording of Orson Welles’ 1938 production of The Merchant of Venice. The 2 CD set also contains seven scenes from Macbeth with Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson.

Hamlet (1999 Audio, Radio)

aka: BBC Radio Collection: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Series

Sunday Play, The

Director

Jeremy Mortimer

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

Radio production of the play adapted and directed by Jeremy Mortimer, starring Michael Sheen as Hamlet, Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beavan as Ophelia. Timothy Spall...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999 Audio, Radio)

aka: BBC Radio Collection: William Shakespeare’s a Midsummer Night’s Dream

Series

Sunday Play, The

Director

Susan Roberts

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed for radio by Susan Roberts, with Richard Griffiths as Bottom, David Threlfall as Oberon and Sylvestra le Touzel as Titania. Music composed and performed by Robin Rimbaud.

Julius Caesar (1999 Audio, Radio)

aka: BBC Radio Collection: William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Series

Sunday Play, The

Director

Eoin O’Callaghan

Radio production of the play set in the 1920s. Directed by Eoin O’Callaghan, starring Gerard Murphy as Caesar. With an introduction by Richard Eyre.

Romeo and Juliet (1999 Audio, Radio)

aka: BBC Radio Collection: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Series

Sunday Play, The

Director

Peter Kavanagh

Romeo and Juliet, adapted for radio by Peter Kavanagh. With Douglas Henshall as Romeo and top model Sophie Dahl as Juliet. Original music composed and performed by Mia Soteriou except for the song Silver...

Romeo and Juliet (1999 Television)

Series

Grimleys, The

Director

Martin Dennis; Crispin Reece

Producer

Spencer Campbell

Comedy drama series set on a housing estate in the Black Country in the mid-1970s. Doug Digby (Conley) is a PE teacher with a sadistic streak. He divides his time between making his pupils miserable. and...

Shakespeare in St Paul’s Churchyard (1999 Video)

Series

Midday Colloquia

Videorecording of a lecture given by Peter Blayney at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999 Video)

aka: Shakespeare’s a Midsummer Night’s Dream

Director

Timothy Hines

Producer

Lloyd Kaufmann; Michael Herz

Version of the play directed by Timothy Hines.

Will Power (1999 Television)

Series

Cosby

Director

Don Scardino

US sitcom. Hilton is coaching teenage neighbour Journee in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet while his college-educated friend Griffin looks on. Journee stumbles over the word ‘wilt’, Griffin...

Shakespeare in Paul’s Cross Churchyard (1999 Video)

Lecture given by Peter W.M. Blaney as part of the Spring 1999 Midday Colloquia series.

Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, And Tragedies (1999 Audio, Video)

Series

Superstar Teachers

A series of 36, 30 minute lectures given by Peter Saccio, the Leon D. Black Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Dartmouth College. Also available on audio. Course lecture titles: 1. Shakespeare Then and...

Comedy of Errors, The (1999 Radio)

Series

Sunday Play, The

Director

Sue Wilson

Radio musical adaptation of The Comedy of Errors directed and dramatised by Sue Wilson. Michael Maloney as Antipholus of Syracuse and Anton Lesser as Antipholus of Ephesus. The production is set aboard a...