Primetime Diary [20/05/1998] (1998 Television)

Series

Primetime Diary

Monthly arts and entertainment series. This episode includes an item which looks at Cymni Ballet Gwent’s The Tempest designed by Yvonne Williams and choreographed by Darius James.

Othello (1998 Video)

Director

Sam Mendes

A recording by the Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) , of the 1997 production at the Cottesloe Theatre. Directed by Sam Mendes and designed by Anthony Ward with David Harewood as Othello and Simon Russell...

O. J. Othello (1998 Video)

aka: Orenthal

Director

John Leerdam

Video recording of the multimedia, one-act monologue by Maarten van Hinte that brackets OJ Simpson and Othello, Moor of Venice. The publicity material takes obvious points of comparison : "Just like OJ, he...

Winter’s Tale, The (1998 Video)

Director

Gregory Doran

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 production of The Winter’s Tale directed by Gregory Doran with Antony Sher as Leontes.

Cymbeline (1998 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1997 production of Cymbeline directed by Adrian Noble with Joanne Pearce as Imogen and Paul Freeman as Iachimo.

Much Ado About Nothing (1998 Video)

Video recording using a single camera of a performance of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Declan Donnellan. Matthew Macfadyen is Benedict and Saskia Reeves is Beatrice.

Alexei Sayle’s Merry-Go-Round [22/05/1998] (1998 Television)

Series

Alexei Sayle’s Merry-Go-Round

Director

Edgar Wright

Producer

Jon Rowlands

Comedy series. Alexei Sayle delivers comic monologues; in one of them he reflects on the meaning of Shakespeare’s work. No further details known [9/2010].

Playing Juliet/Casting Othello (1998 Video)

Director

Lisa Rose Middleton

Video recording of a production of Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ play ‘Playing Juliet/Casting Shakespeare’ directed by Lisa Rose Middleton. The cast is equally divided between black and white actors and...

Pocket Guide to Shakespeare’s Plays, A (1998 Video)

Series

Platform Recording

A National Theatre Platform recording in the Cottesloe theatre celebrating Kenneth McLeish’s contribution to theatre on publication of his book A Pocket Guide to Shakespeare’s Plays (Faber and Faber, 1998).

Alas, Poor Sooty (1998 Television)

Series

Sooty’s Amazing Adventures

Director

Jon Doyle

Sooty and his friends put on a production of Romeo and Juliet to prove to Aunt Catarina, the theatre cat, that they do know something about Shakespeare.

Computers and the Arts: Computing and Literature (1998 Television)

Series

Open University A103

Producer

Andy Kimpton-Nye

Open University programme made for the 103 Introduction to the Humanities course. Looks at how Robert Matthews has used his computer to find out whether Shakespeare really was the author of a new poem...

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (1998 Video)

Director

Michael Cowie

Video recording of Ann-Marie Macdonald’s comedic play performed by The Totally Portable Theatre. Constance Ledbelly, a young English literature professor from Queen’s University, goes on a subconscious...

Brush Up on Your Shakespeare (1998 Television)

Series

Goober and the Ghost Chasers

Director

Charles A. Nichols

Producer

Iwao Takamoto

Animated cartoon series in which a group of teenagers solve spooky mysteries with their dog Goober. In this episode the Partridge kids are supposed to play a concert but their performance is cancelled when...

Beatrice and Benedict (1998 Radio)

Series

Proms Composer of the Week: Berlioz

Radio broadcast. Roger Nichols examines Berlioz’s approach to his operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Romeo and Juliet (1998 Video)

Video recording of Ballet Preljocaj’s Romeo and Juliet choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj. Nadine Comminges and Stéphane Loras dance the title roles.

In the Life [07/10/1998] (1998 Television)

Series

In the Life

US lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) television newsmagazine. This edition is hosted by Katherine Linton with guest John Waters. Includes an interview with Daniel Shore and Greg Shamie playing...

Golden Lads and Girls (1998 Radio)

Producer

Philippa Ritchie

Mark Rylance discovers the astonishing appeal of Shakespeare for very young children in a programme featuring their poems, letters and thoughts as well as performance extracts.

Edric Connor (1998 Television)

Series

Black Firsts

Documentary profile of Edric Connor, who came to England in 1944 and took a job with the World Service. In 1958, he became the first black actor to appear with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Samrat Lear (1997 Multimedia, Video)

Director

John Russell Brown

Video recording of a Hindi-language adaptation of King Lear by the National School of Drama in New Delhi from a script by Harivansh Rai Bachchan. Chetan Pandit is Lear. A 1-minute clip from the production is...

Barrymore (1997 Video)

Director

Gene Saks

Videorecording of the one-man play by William Luce starring Christopher Plummer as American acting legend John Barrymore. With his career in tatters, ageing actor John Barrymore rents an old theatre and...

Brush Up Your Shakespeare (1997 Radio)

Series

Voices

Producer

Peter Tanner

Radio broadcast. Iain Burnside introduces a selection of songs that are settings of texts by Shakespeare or inspired by his writing.

Macbeth (1997 Radio)

Series

Performance on 3

Producer

Graham Vick

Verdi’s opera in a new production by Graham Vick.Renato Bruson and Maria Guleghina are the Macbeths. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala are conducted by Riccardo Muti.

Hamlet (1997 Radio)

Series

Opera Matinee

Radio broadcast. Thomas Ambroise’s five-act opera with Simon Keenlyside in the title role. The Geneva Grand Theatre Chorus and the Suisse Romande Orchestra is conducted by Louis Langr .

Beatrice et Benedict (1997 Radio)

aka: Beatrice and Benedict

Director

Robin Phillips

Radio broadcast. Berlioz’s opera. The title roles are sung by Jane Gilbert and Gordon Gietz. The Canadian Opera Company Chorus and Orchestra are conducted by Richard Bradshaw.

Lear (1997 Video)

Director

Ong Keng Sen

Video recording of Ong Keng Sen’s interpretation of King Lear bringing together artists from Japan, Thailand, China and Indonesia. The production incorporates different performing genres where actors play...

Rui Ka Bojh (1997 Film)

aka: The Weight of Cotton

Director

Subhash Agrawal

Feature film with a plot inspired by King Lear. A self-respecting wise old man decides to divide his property among his family. He settles down with his youngest son and soon realises that without his wealth...

King Henry IV. Part 1 (1997 Video)

Director

Stephen Unwin

Video recording using a single camera of a performance of Henry IV Part 1 directed by Stephen Unwin, and performed by the English Touring Theatre at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in February 1997. Timothy...

Henry IV. Part 2 (1997 Video)

Director

Stephen Unwin

Video recording using a single camera of a performance of Henry IV Part 2, directed by Stephen Unwin, and performed by the English Touring Theatre at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in February 1997. Gary...

King Lear (1997 Video)

Director

Helena Kaut-Howson

Video recording using a single camera of a performance of King Lear, directed by Helena Kaut-Howson, and performed by the Young Vic/IP Productions at the Young Vic theatre, London, in August 1997. The...

Themes of Shakespeare (1997 Multimedia)

Studies of Shakespeare plays, featuring classic and modern literary criticism, interactive tutorials, key scenes with video clips, Shakespeare’s life and works, character studies, the text of the play in...

Thousand Acres, A (1997 Film, Video)

Director

Jocelyn Moorhouse

Producer

Marc Abraham; Lynn Arost; Steve Golin; Kate Guinzburg; Sigurjon Sighvatsson

Film adaptation of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Jane Smiley, which is loosely based on King Lear but with a feminist slant. Larry (Robards) decides to give his daughters joint ownership of his...

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (1997 Multimedia)

An electronic edition of the modern spelling edition of Shakespeare texts, prepared from the quarto and folio texts rather than from previous editions. All structural elements are encoded, including...

Hamlet: A Critical Guide (1997 Video)

Series

Themes of Shakespeare

Professor Stanley Wells and Dr Russell Jackson of the Shakespeare Institute, and Dr Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, discuss issues arising from the study of Shakespeare’s...

Julius Caesar: A Critical Guide (1997 Video)

Series

Themes of Shakespeare

Professor Stanley Wells and Dr Russell Jackson of the Shakespeare Institute, and Dr Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, discuss issues arising from the study of Shakespeare’s...

King Lear: A Critical Guide (1997 Video)

Series

Themes of Shakespeare

Professor Stanley Wells and Dr Russell Jackson of the Shakespeare Institute, and Dr Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, discuss issues arising from the study of Shakespeare’s...

Macbeth: A Critical Guide (1997 Video)

Series

Themes of Shakespeare

Professor Stanley Wells and Dr Russell Jackson of the Shakespeare Institute, and Dr Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, discuss issues arising from the study of Shakespeare’s...

Othello: A Critical Guide (1997 Video)

Series

Themes of Shakespeare

Professor Stanley Wells and Dr Russell Jackson of the Shakespeare Institute, and Dr Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, discuss issues arising from the study of Shakespeare’s...

Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Guide (1997 Video)

Series

Themes of Shakespeare

Director

Peter Balderstone

Professor Stanley Wells and Dr Russell Jackson of the Shakespeare Institute, and Dr Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, discuss issues arising from the study of Shakespeare’s...

Kind of Magic, A (1997 Television)

Series

Conjuring Shakespeare

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

Examines how directors approach and stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream and some of the problems involved. Includes footage from various productions of the play including a brief extract from Peter Brook’s...

War! (1997 Television)

Series

Conjuring Shakespeare

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

Explores the authenticity of Henry V and considers the methods of its enactment and emphasis in the first performance in 1599 to the 1944 Olivier film version. There are contributions from a film historian,...

Girls Who Are Boys (1997 Television)

Series

Conjuring Shakespeare

Producer

Tony Coe

Cross-dressing and ambiguous sexuality in Shakespeare’s plays is discussed by actresses Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson and director Deborah Warner. Follows the progress of a theatre workshop on the...

It’s a Family Affair (1997 Television)

Series

Conjuring Shakespeare

Producer

Tony Coe

Celia Imrie, Kenneth Cranham and Fiona Shaw consider and discuss the themes of discord and misunderstanding in family life found in King Lear, and the reasons which may account for the continued popularity...

Stormy Weather (1997 Television)

Series

Conjuring Shakespeare

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

The storm scene in King Lear is examined, discussing how the balance can be maintained between the strength of the text and conveying the range of the weather. Four theatrical groups have two days to devise,...

Like a Virgin (1997 Television)

Series

Conjuring Shakespeare

Producer

Tony Coe

Explores Measure for Measure and the questions it raises around morality and virginity against its setting of corruption, and in particular the moral dilemma facing the heroine. Follows Fiona Shaw as she...

Henry V at the Globe (1997 Television)

Director

Steve Ruggi

Producer

Debra Hauer

A programme to mark the opening of the newly reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Features Act IV of Henry V, with Richard Oliver directing Mark Rylance as Henry. Includes extracts from the...

In Search of Hamlet with Jonathan Ross (1997 Television)

Director

Tina Jenkins; Gerry Dowd

Producer

Mark Tinkler; Tina Jenkins

Television programme. An irreverent look at Shakespeare’s Hamlet with contributions from actors, many of them American. At one point John Sessions and Kenneth Branagh perform the ‘to be, or not to be,...

Shakespeare’s Globe (1997 Television)

aka: Shakespeare’s Globe

Director

Cassie Braban

Producer

Cassie Braban

Television documentary. Charts the realisation of Sam Wanamaker’s ambition to build a theatre on the South Bank of the Thames, where Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre once stood. Follows escalation of tensions...

Sonnets in the City (1997 Television)

Director

Sophie Gardiner; Mark Rylance

Producer

Sophie Gardiner; Mark Rylance

Five daily readings of Shakespearean sonnets, performed around London Landmarks, as a prelude to a live transmission of HENRY V, Act IV from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on 15 June 1997 at 8pm. 09/06...

True Tilda [30/03/1997] (1997 Television)

Series

True Tilda

Director

Ross Devenish

Television drama for children. Part 3 of a 6-part series based on the story by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Tilda and Arthur help the Mortimers stage the final act of Othello.

Ronnie & Julie (1997 Film, Television)

aka: Ronnie and Julie

Director

Phillip Spink

Producer

Larry Sugar

TV cable movie. A modern version of Romeo and Juliet in which the parents of two American high-school pupils confront each other in a mayoral election. Ronnie plays ice-hockey and Julie is a figure skater.