Hamlet (1996 Film)

Director

Kenneth Branagh

Producer

David Barron

A film adaptation of Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh in the title role. Set in the 19th century with many stars giving cameo performances in minor roles. The film was shot on 65mm and released in 70mm.

Coriolanus (1996 Video)

Director

Steven Berkoff

A production of the play set in fascist Italy. Filmed at the Tokyo Globe Theatre.

Romeo and Cher (1996 Television)

Series

Clueless

Director

Rusty Cundieff

US sitcom In this episode of Clueless Mr Hall, the teacher (Wallace Shawn), has assigned his class Romeo and Juliet and is assessing the scenes the students have selected. Amber (Elsie Donovan) sings...

Tromeo & Juliet (1996 Film)

aka: Tromeo and Juliet

Director

Lloyd Kaufmann; James Gunn

Producer

Lloyd Kaufmann; Michael Herz

A low-budget, punk rock, exploitation, B film based on Romeo and Juliet and set in modern Manhattan. Filmed in Troma style with much gratuituous violence, it exhibits a healthy disregard for taste and comes...

Acting with...Jack Shepherd: Shaping Up for Shakespeare (1996 Television)

Series

Acting with...

Director

David G. Croft

Producer

John Archer

Television documentary series. Part 3 of a three-part series of acting workshops. Jack Shepherd works with students on soliloquies from Shakespeare and the actors work on scenes from The Winter’s Tale.

Love is All There is (1996 Film)

Director

Joseph Bologna; Renee Taylor

Feature film. Romantic comedy very loosely based on Romeo and Juliet. Rosario and Gino are the children of rival Italian restauranteurs in the Bronx. When the couple fall in love whilst taking part in a...

Macbeth (1996 Television)

Series

Shakespeare Shorts

Last episode of a five-part schools programme series that attempts to make Shakespeare accessible to children by having well-known actors comment on and perform key scenes from Shakespeare’s plays which...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1996 Television)

Series

Shakespeare Shorts

Third instalment of a five-part schools programme series that attempts to make Shakespeare accessible to children by having well-known actors comment on and perform key scenes from Shakespeare’s plays that...

Twelfth Night (1996 Television)

Series

Shakespeare Shorts

Fourth instalment of a five-part schools programme series that attempts to makes Shakespeare accessible to children by having well-known actors perform and comment on key scenes from Shakespeare’s plays...

Romeo and Juliet (1996 Television)

Series

Shakespeare Shorts

First episode of a five-part schools programme series that attempts to makes Shakespeare accessible to children by having well-known actors perform and comment on key scenes from Shakespeare’s plays which...

Julius Caesar (1996 Television)

Series

Shakespeare Shorts

Second instalment of a five-part schools programme series that attempts to makes Shakespeare accessible to children by having well-known actors comment on and perform key scenes from Shakespeare’s plays...

Measure for Measure (1996 Video)

Director

Barry Kyle

A video recording of the Theatre for a New Audience production of the play directed by Barry Kyle with Jeeyoung Kim as Isabella,

Hamlet (1996 Video)

Director

Irina Gurina

Shostakovitch’s ballet performed by the Moscow State Theatre Ballet. Choreography and scenario by Svetlana Voskresenskaia.

Judith Shakespeare (1996 Radio)

Series

Afternoon Play

Director

Tracey Neale

Producer

Tracey Neale

Combining known facts with a fictional interpretation, this biographical drama written by Nan Woodhouse is set in the seventeenth century and tells the story of Judith, Shakespeare’s youngest daughter.

Shakespeare on Broadway (1996 Audio)

Songs from Broadway shows sung by the original casts. The tracks are: 1. Brush Up Your Shakespeare from Kiss Me, Kate. Composed by Cole Porter ( Jonathan Freeman/Harry Groener/Guy Haines) 2. I To The World...

Otello (1996 Video)

Director

Elijah Moshinsky; Brian Large

Producer

Louisa Briccetti

Verdi’s four-act opera. The opera, recorded live, was produced and directed for stage by Elijah Moshinsky and David Kneuss respectively; directed for video by Brian Large. The New York Metropolitan Opera...

As You Like It (1996 Video)

Director

Steven Pimlott

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 production of As You Like It. Directed by Stephen Pimlott with Niamh Cusack as Rosalind and Liam Cunningham as Orlando.

Much Ado About Nothing (1996 Video)

Director

Louis Fantasia

Producer

Hugh Richmond

A video recording of a production of Much Ado About Nothing by students registered with the University of California Shakespeare Program and performed at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Bankside.

Twelfth Night (1996 Video)

Director

Ian Judge

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 touring production of Twelfth Night. Directed by Ian Judge with Edward Petherbridge as Malvolio and Emily Joyce as...

Troilus and Cressida (1996 Video)

Director

Ian Judge

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 overtly homoerotic production of Troilus and Cressida. Directed by Ian Judge with Joseph Fiennes as Troilus and...

Comedy of Errors, The (1996 Video)

Director

Tim Supple

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 modern dress, touring production of The Comedy of Errors. Directed by Tim Supple with Roger Bowman as Antipholus of...

Rosencrantz and Guildernstern Are Dead (1996 Video)

Director

Matthew Francis

A video recording, using a single camera, of the National Theatre’s 1995 production of Rosencrantz and Guildernstern Are Dead. Directed by Matthew Francis with Simon Russell Beale as Guildenstern and...

Hamlet (1996 Video)

aka: Insanity Trial of Hamlet

Director

Michael Maso

Mock trail. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy presides over the moot court to determine Hamlet’s mental state at the time of the murder of Polonius. Participants are John Curtain, Thomas...

Comedy of Errors, The (1996 Television, Video)

Director

Norman Campbell

Producer

Norman Campbell

Richard Monette’s 1989 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival production of The Comedy of Errors directed for television by Norman Campbell. Geordie Johnson and Keith Dinicol double the roles of...

Muppets Tonight [15/03/1996] (1996 Television)

Series

Muppets Tonight

Director

Greg V. Fera

Producer

Martin G. Baker

Television series featuring The Muppets. In this episode Clifford is about to introduce Garth Brooks when Rizzo comes out to tell him that Garth is wearing an effeminate shirt, tights, and bloomers. Clifford...

Shakespeare in Sable: History of the Black Shakespearean Actor (1996 Video)

A talk by Professor Errol Hill based on his book of the same title (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984). The book charts the struggle of Afro-American actors, first as exiles, then in the...

Shakespeare (1996 Radio)

Series

Mightier Than the Sword

Producer

Harry Thompson

Spoof arts magazine series in which Hugh Pankhurst (John Sessions) reassess literary figures of the past. This episode is a spoof of Shakespeare.

Tempest, The (1996 Radio)

Series

Sunday Play

Director

Sue Wilson

Producer

Sue Wilson

Full radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play produced and directed by Sue Wilson with Ronald Pickup as Prospero. The music is composed by Anthea Gomez and is performed by Colin Crabbe, Linda Rhodes, Martha...

Cymbeline (1996 Radio)

Director

Michael Fox (2)

Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play directed by Michael Fox. Juliet Stevenson is Imogen and Robert Glenister is Posthumus. With music composed by Patrick Cunneen, performed by Robert Buckland, Elizabeth...

Romeo and Juliet (1996 Television)

Series

Kindred:the Embraced

Director

Ralph Hemecker

Television series. A vampire soap opera loosely based on the role-playing game ‘Vampire: The Masquerade’. The main plot involves a San Francisco police detective, Frank Kohanek (C. Thomas Howell), who...

X Hamlet (1996 Film)

aka: Hamlet: For the Love of Ophelia

Director

Luca Damiano

Hardcore pornographic adaptation enacted in Elizabeth costume.

High School High (1996 Film)

Director

Hart Bochner

Producer

David Zucker; Robert LoCash; Gil Netter

Feature film. A satire on the ‘inspirational’ teacher in high schools. Richard Clark wants to prove to his father, a headmaster, that he can be an inspirational teacher and secures a post at Marion Barry...

Romeo och Julia (1996 Television)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Alexander Oberg

A version of Romeo and Juliet for Swedish television directed by Alexander Oberg and translated into Swedish by Britt G. Hallqvist. Jacob Ericksson is Romeo and Gunilla Johansson is Julia.

Merchant of Venice, The (1996 Radio)

Series

Quicksilver Radio Theatre

Director

Jay Stern

Producer

Craig Wichman

The Merchant of Venice directed for radio by Jay Stern with Clyde Baldo as Shylock.

Merely Players (1996 Radio)

Series

Monday Play, The

Director

Don Taylor

Radio play by Don Taylor. Asked by one of the Earl of Essex’s agents to stage Richard II, William Shakespeare (Michael Pennington) and other members of the Globe Theatre Company are drawn into a conspiracy...

Fuck Hamlet (1996 Film)

Director

Whang Cheol-Mean

Producer

Joachim Rothe

A student film. Berlin, six years after the fall of the wall, is depicted as a permanent building site which long lost its symbolic power to suggest a new prosperity. People are unemployed and homeless...

Sommernachtstraum, Ein: Ein Europäischer Shakespeare (1996 Television)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A: A European Shakespeare

Director

Karin Beier; Georg Wübbolt

Karin Beier’s stage production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed for German television by Georg Wübbert and relayed live from the Berlin Schillertheater. The production used a multicultural cast...

All’s Well That Ends Well (1996 Video)

Director

Laird Williamson

Video recording of The Shakespeare Theatre’s 1996 production of All’s Well That Ends Well directed for stage by Laird Williamson and videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor. DeAnn Mears is the Countess.

Henry V (1996 Video)

Director

Michael Kahn

A video recording of Michael Kahn’s 1995 production of Henry V for the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Harry Hamlin is Henry.

Henry VI (1996 Video)

Director

Michael Kahn

Michael Kahn’s distillation of the Henry VI trilogy for the Shakespeare Theatre Company with Philip Goodwin as Henry. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.

Measure for Measure (1996 Video)

Director

Michael Kahn

Michael Kahn’s 1996 production of Measure For Measure for the Shakespeare Theatre Free For All. Kelly McGillis is Isabella and Philip Goodwin is Angelo.

Jak Se Vam Libi (1996 Video)

aka: As You Like It

Director

Ivo Krobot

A video recording of Ivo Krobot’s 1996 production of As You Like It for the Theatre Pod Palmovkou, Prague. Klara Trojanova-Pollertova is Rosalind.

Kral Lear (1996 Video)

aka: King Lear

Director

Eva Talska

Video recording of Eva Talska’s 1996 production of King Lear for the Husa na Provazku Theatre, Brno with Jiri Pecha as Lear.

King Lear (1996 Video)

Director

Richard Monette

Video recording of Richard Monette’s 1996 production of King Lear for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with William Hutt as Lear.

Merchant of Venice, The (1996 Video)

Director

Marti Maraden

Video recording of Marti Maraden’s 1996 production of The Merchant of Venice for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Douglas Rain is Shylock.

As You Like It (1996 Video)

Director

Richard Rose

Video recording of Richard Rose’s 1996 production of As You Like It for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Jane Spidell is Rosalind.

Trettondagsafton (1996 Video)

aka: Twelfth Night

Director

Michael Tarant

Video recording of Michael Tarant’s production of Twelfth Night for Teatergruppen Småfolket. Kerstin Bezina is Viola.

Rock and a Soft Place, A (1996 Television)

Series

Remember Wenn

Director

Howard Meltzer

Television drama, created and written by Rupert Holmes, set in a radio station in Pittsburgh in the early 1940s following the personal and professional lives of the people who work there. This episode...

Roi Lear (1996 Video)

aka: King Lear

Director

Georges Lavaudant

Video recording of Georges Lavaudant’s production of King Lear with Philippe Morier-Genoud in the title role.

Othello, Der Mohr in Wien (1996 Television)

Director

Gandolf Buschbeck

Joseph Ferdinand Kringsteiner’s 19th-century burlesgue of Othello written in the Viennese dialect for the popular Viennese stage. The play is set among the servant class of Vienna: Mussi Cassio is a...