Brush Up Your Shakespeare (1999 Radio)

aka: 2: Twelfth Night, Or What You Will

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Second in a series of radio programmes, broadcast over five consecutive days, devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Peggy Reynolds introduces the following pieces of music: Haydn’s "She Never...

Brush Up Your Shakespeare (1999 Radio)

aka: 1: The Taming of the Shrew

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

First in a series of radio programmes, broadcast over five consecutive days, devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Peggy Reynolds introduces the following musical compositions: Cole Porter’s...

Brush Up Your Shakespeare (1999 Radio)

aka: 3: King Henry V

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Third in a series of radio programmes, broadcast over five consecutive days, devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Peggy Reynolds introduces the following pieces of music: "Agincourt Carol" as...

Brush Up Your Shakespeare (1999 Radio)

aka: 4: Othello, Or the Moor of Venice

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Fourth in a series of episodes, broadcast over five consecutive days, devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Peggy Reynolds presents the following pieces of music: Extracts from Khachaturian’s...

Brush Up Your Shakespeare (1999 Radio)

aka: 5: The Tempest

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Fifth in a series of episodes, broadcast over five consecutive days, devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Peggy Reynolds presents the following pieces of music: Locke’s "Curtain Tune" as...

Earshot (1999 Television)

Series

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Director

Regis Kimble

Producer

Gareth Davies (2)

Science fiction/action adventure series. Buffy Summers is The Chosen One, the one girl in the world with the strength and skill to fight the vampires. With the help of her close friends and her Watcher she...

Romeo et Juliette (1999 Video)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Series

Reves d’Etoiles

Director

Francois Roussillon

Documentary focusing on the Paris Opera Ballet’s 1995 production of Romeo et Juliette, mise-en-scene and choreography by Rudolph Nureyev. The principal dancers Elisabeth Maurin and Manuel Legris and other...

Midsummer (1999 Film)

Director

James Kerwin

Producer

James Kerwin; P. Dirk Higdon; Steven Hacker

Short experimental film. An adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set against a psychedelic backdrop of surreal techno clubs and urban alleyways. The film opens with a long unbroken shot, with no...

William Sexspeare’s ‘Much Ado About Puberty’ (1999 Film)

Director

Ken Boynton

Independent short. Shakespeare, as a boy, worries about the onset of puberty and consults his parents about the facts of life. The film’s dialogue is spoken in pseudo-Elizabethan blank verse and William is...

Luna Papa (1999 Film)

aka: Lunnyy Papa

Director

Bakhytar Khudojnazarov

Producer

Bakhytar Khudojnazarov; Philippe Avril; Karl Baumgartner; Thomas Koerfer; Heinz Stussak; Igor Tolstunov

Feature film. Comedy-fantasy partly narrated by the unborn baby of a young stagestruck girl who finds herself pregnant following the visit of a touring theatre to the ancient city by the sea which is her...

William Psychspeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrink’ (1999 Film)

Director

Ken Boynton

Producer

Aimee LaMarch

Independent fiction short. Four Elizabethan office workers find themselves in the high-rise office of a 16th-century therapist who bears a close resemblance to Shakespeare. They undergo group therapy in...

Abduction from the Seraglio and Falstaff (1999 Video)

Series

Works & Process at the Guggenheim

Producer

Mary Sharp Cronson

Two new productions from the 1999 season at the New York City Opera. Each segment includes two arias or duets performed by singers from the productions, interspersed with discussions with the singers,...

Limon Dance Company (1999 Video)

aka: Moor’s Pavane, The

Director

Sarah Stackhouse; Johannes Holub

Three dances by the Limon Dance Company - Champion (Maslow), The Winged (Limon) and The Moor’s Pavane (Limon). The Moor’s Pavane (24 mins) is staged and directed by Sarah Stackhouse and directed and...

End of the Real World, The (1999 Television)

Series

Celebrity Deathmatch

A claymation parody television show, created by Eric Fogel, that pits celebrities against each other in a wrestling ring, almost always ending in a gruesome death of the celebrity who lost the match. It is...

König Lear (1999 Audio, Radio)

aka: König Lear: Trauerspiel in Fünf Aufzügen King Lear

Series

Vertriebene Deutsch-Jüdische Schauspieler

Director

Wilhelm Semmelroth

Full-length radio version of King Lear directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth. With Fritz Kortner in the leading role, Klausjürgen Wussow as Edgar and Bernhard Minetti as Fool.

Romance (1999 Television)

Director

Tarsem Singh; Fredrik Odding

Commercial for Beck’s Beer as part of the ‘What Germans Do Best’ campaign. The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in German in Expressionist style; the set is black and white with a...

Widerspenstigen Zähmung, Der (1999 Television)

aka: Taming of the Shrew, The

Director

Norbert Kentrup

German television production. The Taming of the Shrew staged by Norbert Kentrup in 1988 for the Bremer Shakespeare Company. Dagmar Papula is Katherina and Renato Grünig is Petruchio.

Henry V (1999 Television)

Director

Jean-Luc Benoit

Producer

Jean-Louis Cap

Henry V directed for French television by Jean-Louis Cap and for stage by Jean-Luc Benoit. Philippe Torreton is Henry.

Merely Playing (1999 Film)

Director

George Fleming

Producer

Billy Bannister

Documentary short written and directed by George Fleming which combines Shakespeare with modern Britain to to produce a poetic documentary about a modern British family. [Description summarised from that...

Dream Kitchen (1999 Film)

Director

Barry Dignam

Producer

Barry Dignam; Katherina Fay; Conor McKiernan

Fiction short. An allegory on ‘coming out’ set in working-class Dublin. A son comes home to his family to find his father repairing the car, and his mother in the kitchen cooking as usual. As he...

Sofies Verden (1999 Film)

aka: Sophie’s World

Director

Eric Gustavson

Producer

Oddvar Bull Tuhus; John M. Jacobsen

An epic fantasy film. Sophie (Silje Storstein) is a 15 year-old-girl who believes she is living an ordinary life but through an unusual set of circumstances realises she is not. She is in fact a fictional...

When we Were Queens (1999 Radio)

Series

Afternoon Play

Director

Melanie Harris

Radio drama written by Peter Straughan about a group of boy players competing for the female roles in Shakespeare’s company. Acting the parts of Shakespeare’s heroines, they are briefly lifted above...

Miarka za Miarke (1999 Television)

aka: Measure for Measure

Director

Tadeusz Bradecki

Polish television production of Measure for Measure directed by Tadeusz Bradecki. Krzysztof Globisz is Duke Vincentio and Ewa Kaim is Isabella. The performance is punctuated with dance and songs from popular...

Dresser, The (1999 Video)

Director

Michael Tolaydo

Video recording of Michael Tolaydo’s 1999 staging of Ronald Harwood’s play based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. An actor-manager of the old school takes a...

Hamlet (1999 Video)

Director

Joe Banno

Video recording of Joe Banno’s 1999 production of Hamlet for the Folger Theatre. Banno employs three actresses and one actor to play Hamlet. Holly Twyford plays the central Hamlet and the three other...

King Lear (1999 Video)

Director

Michael Kahn

Video recording of Michael Kahn’s 1999 production of King Lear for the Shakespeare Theatre Company with Ted van Griethuysen as Lear. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.

King John (1999 Video)

Director

Michael Kahn

Video recording of Michael Kahn’s 1999 production of King John for the Shakespeare Theatre Company, videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor. Philip Goodwin is King John.

Measure for Measure (1999 Video)

Director

Michael Russotto

A video recording of Michael Russotto’s 1999 production of Measure for Measure for the Washington Shakespeare Company. John Emmert is Duke Vincentio and Taunya Martin is Isabella.

Merchant of Venice, The (1999 Video)

Director

Michael Kahn

Video recording of Michael Kahn’s 1999 production of The Merchant of Venice videotaped by James J. Taylor for WAPAVA. Hal Holbrook is Shylock.

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999 Video)

Director

Joe Calarco

Video recording of Joe Calarco’s 1999 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.

Taming of the Shrew, The (1999 Video)

Director

Delia Taylor

Video recording of the Washington Theatre Company’s 1999 all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Delia Taylor and videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor. Elizabeth Perotti is...

Richard II (1999 Video)

Director

Ruediger Burbach

A videorecording, using a single camera, of Ruediger Burbach’s 1999 production of Richard II for the Schausielhaus, Zurich. Katharina von Bock is Richard.

Heinrich IV (1999 Video)

aka: Henry IV

Director

Ruediger Burbach

A video recording, using a single camera, of Henry IV for the Schauspielhaus, Zurich directed by Ruediger Burbach. Stefan Lahr is King Henry and Matthias Scheuring is Falstaff. The production was set in a...

Heinrich V und Heinrich VI Part 1 (1999 Video)

aka: Henry V and Henry VI Part 1

Director

Ruediger Burbach

A video recording, using a single camera, of Ruedinger Burbach’s 1999 production incorporating parts of Henry V and Henry VI Part 1. The kings are played by women: Henry V is played by Andrea Bettini and...

Hamlet (1999 Television)

Director

Johan Doesburg

A production of Hamlet directed by Johan Doesburg with Gijs Scholton van Aschat in the title role.

Macbeth (1999 Television)

Director

Guy Van Sande

Belgian television production of Macbeth directed by Guy van Sande and Jean Pierre de Decker. Mathias Sercu is Macbeth.

Ukrocena Trmoglavka (1999 Television)

aka: Taming of the Shrew, The

Director

Janusz Kica

The Taming of the Shrew made for Slovenian television and directed by Janus Kica. Milada Kalezic is Katherina and Mario Selih plays Petruchio.

Kral Jan (1999 Video)

aka: King John

Director

Zbynek Srba

Video recording of Zbynek Srba’s 1999 production of King John. Adapted by Friedrich Durrenmatt. No further details known (12/2007).

Hamlet (1999 Video)

Director

Zdenek Kaloc

Video recording of Zdenek Kaloc’s 1999 production of Hamlet. The production opened at the Mahen Theatre, Brno in June 1999 with Igor Bares in the title role. It is not known whether the same cast performed...

Antonius a Kleopatra (1999 Video)

aka: Antony and Cleopatra

Director

Ivan Rajmont

A video recording of Ivan Rajmont’s 1999 production of Antony and Cleopatra for the National Theatre, Prague. Boris Rosner is Antony and Eva Salzmannova is Cleopatra.

Edward III (1999 Radio)

Series

Ideas

Radio broadcast. Canada’s Soulpepper Theatre Company has acquired the rights for the first North American reading of Shakespeare’s Edward III. Paul Kennedy talks with actors and scholar about the process...

Richard II (1999 Video)

Director

Martha Henry

Video recording of Martha Henry’s 1999 production of Richard II for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Geordie Johnson is Richard.

Macbeth (1999 Video)

Director

Diana LeBlanc

Video recording of Diana Leblanc’s modern-dress production of Macbeth for the 1999 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Rod Beattie and Martha Henry are the Macbeths.

Tempest, The (1999 Video)

Director

Richard Monette

Video recording of Richard Monette’s production of The Tempest for the 1999 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. William Hutt is Prospero.

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999 Video)

Director

Richard Monette

Video recording of Richard Monette’s 1999 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival.

Othello (1999 Video)

Director

Eva Grondahl

Eva Grondahl’s 1999 production of Othello for Unga Riksteatern with Karl Dyall in the title role.

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1999 Television, Video)

Director

Petr Weigl

Produced for German television station ZDF, director Petr Weigl’s screen interpretation of Shostakovich’s opera is based on an abbreviated version of the Rostropovich/Vishnevskaya recording with the...

Trettondagsafton (1999 Television)

aka: Twelfth Night

Director

Mikael Ekman

Producer

Kai Larsen

A production of Twelfth Night for Swedish television directed by Mikael Ekman. Johan Ulveson is Viola.

Roi Lear, Le (1999 Video)

aka: King Lear

Director

Christian Liardet

A video recording of a production of King Lear directed by Christian Liardet at the Théâtre du Jorat, Mézieres, Switzerland.

Yiddish Queen Lear (1999 Video)

Stage video recording of Julia Pascal’s re-working of King Lear. Set in New York in the late 1930s, a once-famous Yiddish actress gives her theatre business over to her three daughters. In the first...