Othello (1997 Video)

Director

Sam Mendes

A NT recording, by a single fixed camera, of the 1997 production at the Cottesloe Theatre. Directed by Sam Mendes with David Harewood as Othello and Simon Russell Beale as Iago.

Food of Love (1997 Film)

Director

Stephen Poliakoff

Producer

Karin Bamborough

Feature film. Alex (Grant), a London bank manager, feels nostalgic for the time when, as a university student, he staged a Shakespeare play in an idyllic English village. Deciding to repeat the experience...

Macbeth (1997 Film)

Director

Mikhail Ptashuk

Producer

Oleg Bourenkov

Made-for-television film based on a performance of the State Theatre ‘Volnaja Stesena’, Minsk. Adapted by Alexey Dudarev with Oleg Garbuz as Macbeth.

Hamlet: To Cut or Not to Cut? (1997 Television)

Series

Film Education

Documentary transmitted within the BBC Focus Slot in The LEARNING ZONE. Assesses the importance of soliloquies in Shakespeare’s plays and includes an interview with Kenneth Branagh in which he discusses...

Readiness is All: The Filming of Hamlet, The (1997 Television)

Producer

Patrick Reams

Television documentary. A behind-the-scenes account of the making of Kenneth Branagh’s HAMLET.

King Lear Jet (1997 Television)

Series

Just Shoot Me!

Director

Lee Shallat-Chemel

US television sitcom about a former journalist, Maya Gallo, who begins a new job writing for her father’s women’s magazine Blush. Jack has two tickets for a London performance of King Lear, but when...

Cymbeline (1997 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

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

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1997 Video)

Ballet choreographed by George Balanchine and staged by Francia Russell. A video recording of a performance given by the Pacific Northwest Ballet at the Seattle Opera House.

Henry VIII (1997 Video)

Director

Mary Zimmerman

A video recording of the play directed for stage by Mary Zimmerman, and videotaped for Theatre on Film and Videotape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker. Rubin Santiago-Hudson is King Henry.

Elsinore (1997 Video)

Director

Robert Lepage

A videorecording of Robert Lepage’s one-man version of Hamlet. The play is performed with a computer-controlled multimedia machine made up of modular flats that can be either performed or projected upon.

Tempest, The (1997 Video)

Director

Garland Wright

Video recording of the play directed for stage by Garland Wright and videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker.

Antony and Cleopatra (1997 Video)

Director

Barrie Rutter

A video-recording of the modern-dress Northern Broadsides production of the play directed by Barrie Rutter. Staged as part of New York’s New Wave Festival. Barrie Rutter and Ishia Bennison in the title roles.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (1997 Video)

Director

Jack Shepherd

Video recording of the Shakespeare GlobeTheatre’s modern-dress production of the play directed by Jack Shepherd.

Antony and Cleopatra (1997 Video)

Director

Vanessa Redgrave

Video recording of the production directed by Vanessa Redgrave and videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker. David Harewood and Vanessa Redgrave in the title roles.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1997 Audio)

Series

New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio

Director

Neville Jason

Producer

Nicholas Soames

An unabridged recording of the play using the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition edited by Philip Edwards.

Romeo and Juliet (1997 Audio)

Series

New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio

Director

Michael Sheen

Producer

Nicholas Soames

An unabridged recording of the play using the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition edited by G. Blakemore Evans. Michael Sheen and Kate Beckinsale in the title roles.

Live Nude Shakespeare (1997 Film)

Director

Michael D. Fox

Producer

Michael D. Fox

Feature film. Soft porn movie in which showgirls recite Shakespeare soliloquies while performing their striptease act in front of pipe-smoking, highbrow Waldorf Emerson-Biggins who ogles the girls while...

Lar Lubovitch’s Othello (1997 Television, Video)

aka: Othello

Series

Dance in America

Producer

Judy Flannery; Matthew Diamond

Ballet in three acts produced by the American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet in collaboration with the Lar Lubovich Dance Company. The videotape held by Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) was recorded...

Henry V (1997 Video)

Director

Richard Olivier

A video recording of Shakespeare Globe Theatre’s production of Henry V with an all-male, multi-racial cast of 15. Mark Rylance is Henry.

Winter’s Tale, The (1997 Video)

Director

David Freeman

A video recording of the Shakespeare Globe Theatre’s 1997 production of The Winter’s Tale. Directed by David Freeman with Mark Lewis Jones as Leontes and Belinda Davison as Hermione.

Sam Mendes (1997 Audio)

Series

Platform Recording

Sam Mendes talks to Genista McIntosh about his production of Othello with David Harewood in the title role. Recorded in the Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre.

Role Play [14/07/1997] (1997 Radio)

Series

Role Play

Producer

Fiona McLean

Radio series in five parts in which Michael Billington talks to actors about key roles in the repertoire. In the first episode Michael Pennington and Fiona Shaw discuss the figure of Richard II.

Role Play [18/07/1997] (1997 Radio)

Series

Role Play

Producer

Fiona McLean

Radio series in six parts in which Michael Billington talks to actors about key roles in the repertoire. In the fifth and final episode Simon Russell Beale and David Troughton discuss the figure of Richard III.

Nothing Will Come of Nothing (1997 Audio)

Series

Royal Society of Literature

Talk by Richard Eyre, delivered to the Royal Society of Literature, about his production of King Lear for the National Theatre. Chaired by John Clifford Mortimer.

Macbeth Taped (1997 Film)

Director

Margaret Williams

Producer

Anne Beresford

Actors and directors explore scenes from Macbeth, including scenes performed in Wapping Hydraulic Pumping Station. The film uses elements of the play as a springboard for telling stories without using words,...

Macbeth (1997 Multimedia)

Series

Interactive Shakespeare Library

The CD-ROM includes: a complete and fully searchable text of the play, synchronised with dramatisations of key scenes and speeches; a synopsis of the play; lists of key characters and explanations of their...

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Restored: Much Ado About Something (1997 Video)

aka: Shakespeare’s Globe Restored: Teaching by Performance

Director

Audrey Ichinose

In 1996 a student production of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Hugh Richmond and Louis Fantasia, transferred from the University of California at Berkeley to the stage of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre...

Herbal Bed, The (1997 Video)

Director

Michael Attenborough

A video recording of the play by Peter Whelan commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The play is set in 1613 and is concerned with Susannah, daughter of William Shakespeare, who is accused of...

Shakespeare’s Children (1997 Video)

Director

Allie Light; Irving Saraf

Documentary. Filmmaker Kate Kline May began teaching at the Malcolm X Arts & Academic Magnet School, an ethnically diverse public elementary school in Berkeley, Calif. in 1991. Working with the fourth...

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1997 Video)

Director

Ian Judge

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Directed by Ian Judge with Leslie Phillips as Falstaff.

Much Ado About Nothing (1997 Video)

Director

Michael Boyd

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 production of Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Michael Boyd with Alex Jennings as Benedick and Siobhan Redmond as...

Henry V (1997 Video)

Director

Ron Daniels

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1997 touring production of Henry V. Directed by Ron Daniels with Michael Sheen as Henry.

Merchant of Venice, The (1997 Video)

Director

Gregory Doran

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1997 production of The Merchant of Venice. Directed by Gregory Doran with Philip Voss as Shylock.

Play on! (1997 Video)

Director

Sheldon Epps; Richard Stucker

Twelfth Night, with an all African-American cast, is transformed into a romantic fable set in 1940s Harlem using Duke Ellington songs as its score. The play was directed for stage by Sheldon Epps and for...

Compromise: A Love Story of Arabs and Jews (1997 Video)

Director

Anat Even

Documentary about the first Israeli/Palestinian co-production of Romeo and Juliette in Jerusalem. produced by Eran Baniel and Awad Fouad. The project took several years to complete and allowed the...

Postman, The (1997 Film)

Director

Kevin Costner

Producer

Kevin Costner; Steve Tisch; Jim Wilson

Feature film. Set in 2013, after World War Three has destroyed most of USA, including the government. an itinerant actor nicknamed Shakespeare (Costner) who wonders between villages performing scenes from...

Romeo & Juliet & Dick (1997 Television)

aka: Romeo and Juliet and Dick

Series

3rd Rock from the Sun

Director

Robert Berlinger

US sitcom about a ‘family’ of four extraterrestrials who land on Earth to observe human beings, while pretending (often awkwardly) to be humans. In this episode Tommy asks Dick to direct his high school...

As You Like It (1997 Radio)

Series

Monday Play, The

Director

Ned Chaillet

Producer

Ned Chaillet

Radio version of the play adaptated and directed by Ned Chaillet. Imogen Stubbs is Rosalind.

Antony and Cleopatra (1997 Radio)

Series

Sunday Play

Director

Kate Rowland

Radio adaptation of the play performed by Northern Broadsides with Ishia Bennison as Cleopatra and Barrie Rutter as Antony.

Wyrd Sisters, The (1997 Television)

Director

Mark Hall

Producer

Jean Flynn

Animation version of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. sagas televised in six parts. Wyrd Sisters is a parody on Macbeth. Granny Weatherwax returns, along with fellow witches Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick. The...

In the Flesh (1997 Film)

Director

Stuart Canterbury; Antonio Passolini

Producer

Anthony R. Lovett

Porn film. An adaptation of Macbeth set in a castle in Budapest. Courtney Lehman (op cit) makes a case for the film being ‘a surprisingly faithful adaptation’ , offering a ‘provocative example of the...

Best Men (1997 Film)

Director

Tamra Davis

Producer

Brad Krevoy; Steve Stabler; Brad Jenkel; Deborah Ridpath

Feature film. Jesse Reilly (Wilson) is released from prison to get married. He is picked up by four friends, one of whom is actor Billy Phillips (Flanery) who, unknown to the group, is a Shakespeare-quoting...

Prince of Denmark Hill (1997 Television)

Director

Adam Rowley

Producer

John Akass

Fiction short. A contemporary reworking (as a black comedy) of Hamlet, set in South London gangland. Revolving around a game of Russian Roulette between Keith and Dave at the wedding reception of the...

Killing Mr Griffin (1997 Film, Television)

Director

Jack Bender

Made-for-television film. Mr Griffin, a strict high school Latin teacher, humiliates several of his students in the classroom. In retaliation Mark Kinney plots to kidnap Griffin. The plan goes wrong when...

Italiana in Algeri, L’ (1997 Video)

Series

Works & Process at the Guggenheim Collection

Producer

Mary Sharp Cronson

Two new productions by New York City Opera. Each segment includes two arias performed by singers from the productions, interspersed with discussions with the singers, directors and set designers. The singers...

Macbeth Horror Suite di Carmelo Bene Da William Shakespeare (1997 Film, Television)

aka: Macbeth Horror Suite

Director

Carmelo Bene

Made-for-television film. A giallo interpretation of Macbeth. The production was first staged at the Festival d’Automne at the Theatre de Paris in 1990.

For Hire (1997 Film)

Director

Jean Pellerin

Producer

Julie Allan; Pieter Kroonenberg

Independent thriller. Chicago cabbie Mitch Lawrence (Lowe) has a failing acting career and a pregnant and unemployed wife. When one of his clients, author Lou Webber (Mantegna), offers him money to eliminate...

Kung Lear (1997 Television)

aka: King Lear

Director

Peter Oskarson

Television version of King Lear directed by Peter Oskarson with Keve Hjelm as Lear.

Istoriya pro Richarda, Milorda I Prekrasnuyu Zhar-Ptitsu (1997 Film)

aka: Story of Richard, Milord and the Beautiful Firebird, The

Director

Nino Akhvlediani

Feature film. A former theatre director, Dima Kamentsev, stages Richard III using young amateur actors. He engages a ‘difficult’ teenager, nicknamed ‘Milord’ to play the part of Richard. No further...

Sturm, Der - Ein Europäischer Shakespeare (1997 Television)

aka: Tempest, The - A European Shakespeare Fortuna

Director

Karin Beier

Karin Beier’s 1997 production of The Tempest filmed for television by WDR. The modern-dress production employed 12 actors from nine countries. The multi-language production employed gender-blind casting,...