Macbeth (1996 Video)

Series

Renaissance Forum

Director

Joan Pericas

Discussion of Macbeth moderated by Kathryn Schoonover of John Cabot International University. The participants are: Charles Berryman (University of Southern California), Theresia De Vroom (Loyola Marymount...

Maz, Zona, Dziewczyna I Zlodzei (1996 Television)

aka: Husband, Wife, Maiden and Thief

Director

Radoslaw Piwowarski

Scenes from Shakespeare - Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet directed by Radoslaw Piwowarski.

Hamlet (1996 Video)

Director

Ács János

Video recording of the stage production of Hamlet directed by Ács János for the Új Színház, Budapest. Zsolt László is Hamlet.

Macbeth (1996 Video)

Director

Csaba Kiss

Video recording of Csaba Kiss’ 1996 production of Macbeth with Ottó Lajos Horváth and Júlia Nyakó as the Macbeths.

Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales (1996 Radio)

Gordon Downie conducts the Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales in a programme which includes Stravinsky’s Three Songs from William Shakespeare.

Mr Wilson’s Opus (1996 Television)

Series

Home Improvement

Director

Richard Compton

Sitcom about the Taylor family set in suburban Detroit. In this episode the neighbour Mr Wilson becomes the director of Randy’s school play, Romeo and Juliet. Brief extracts from Act 1, v and II, ii are...

Needcompany’s ‘Macbeth’ (1996 Television)

Director

Jan Lauwers

Recording, for Belgian television, of the Needcompany’s production of Macbeth.

Macbeth (1996 Video)

Director

Tim Albery

Video recording, using a single fixed camera, of Tim Albery’s 1996 production of Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Roger Allam and Brid Brennan are the Macbeths.

King Henry VIII (1996 Video)

Director

Gregory Doran

Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King Henry VIII directed by Gregory Doran with Paul Jesson as Henry VIII and Jane Lapotaire as Queen Katherine.

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1996 Video)

Video recording by the Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) using a single, fixed camera, of Adrian Noble’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Alex Jennings as Oberon and Lindsay Duncan as Titania....

Scenes from Shakespeare (1996)

Scenes from Shakespeare read by a variety of actors extracted from earlier recordings of full performances made for HarperCollins. Tracks include: The Merchant of Venice (IV i), Romeo and Juliet (II ii),...

Herbal Bed, The (1996 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...

Showreel. Parasite. Shakespeare’s Murders (1996 Video)

aka: Shakespeare’s Murders

Video documentation of performances by Nottingham- based experimental theatre company Reckless Sleepers: Showreel (1997); Parasite (commissioned for Nottingham’s NOW 94 festival); Shakespeare’s Murders...

Tempest, The (1996 Video)

Director

Carey Perloff

Video recording of the American Conservatory Theatre’s 1996 production of The Tempest directed by Carey Perloff with David Strathairn as Prospero.

Sha Mu Lei Te (1996 Video)

aka: Shamlet

Director

Lee Kuo-hsiu

A comic interpretation of Hamlet performed by the Pingfong Acting Troupe. The production tells the story of an amateur theatre troupe which goes on a tour with Hamlet. After they debut to a lukewarm...

Timon of Athens (1996 Multimedia, Video)

Director

Norio Deguchi

Video recording of The Shakespeare Theatre Company (Japan) production of Timon of Athens directed by Norio Deguchi with Kotaro Yoshida in the title role.

One Perfect Moment (1996 Television)

Series

For Art’s Sake

Director

Ross Jolly

Arts magazine series. An extract (4:50 secs) from this episode shows performer, director and teacher, Elric Hooper, returning to the stage of the University of Canterbury theatre where he played Puck in...

My Pal Puck (1996 Television)

aka: Mike & Angelo

Series

Mike and Angelo

Director

Neville Green

Producer

Alan Horrox

Children’s comedy sci-fi drama. In this episode Angelo turns to Shakespeare to help him write a sitcom. [No further details known 11/2011].

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1996 Radio, Video)

Producer

Tim Albery

Benjamin Britten’s opera performed by the New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus, produced by Tim Albery and conducted by David Atherton. Sylvia McNair is Tytania and Jochim Kowalski is Oberon. Announcer:...

Marilyn Hacker (1996 Radio)

Series

Sonnet, The

Five-part series in which Simon Rae asks contemporary poets to explain their fascination with one of the most popular poetic forms in English. In episode 3 Marilyn Hacker discusses the importance of...

Jeffrey Archer (1996 Radio)

Series

Out of the Air

Producer

Tim Dee

Radio broadcast. Series in which listeners recall a moment from the Third Programme or Radio 3 that had a lasting significance for them. In this episode Jeffrey Archer remembers the Third Programme’s...

Kaleidoscope Feature [21/09/1996] (1996 Radio)

Series

Kaleidoscope Feature

Radio broadcast. Timothy and Samuel West (father and son) talk to Michael Billington about working together, and look forward to the challenge of sharing the stage as Falstaff and Prince Hal in the English...

Hut Pizza of Made We’Re Stuff the Love You’Ll (1996 Film)

An advertisement for Pizza Hut and their ‘stuffed crust pizza’. Peter O’Toole on stage (at an audition?) reciting "to be or not to be that is the question/Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer"....

Elisabeth Scott (1995 Radio)

Series

Footnotes

Producer

Alison Perks

Radio series in which Martin Wainwright celebrates people who have been overlooked by history. This edition looks at Elisabeth Scott, the architect of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.

Romeo and Juliet (1995 Radio)

Series

Musical Tales

Producer

Claire Collingridge

Radio broadcast. Tony Robinson tells modern versions of original tales against a background of music they inspired. This first programme features the story of star-crossed lovers set against the music of...

Othello (1995 Radio)

Director

Laurence Foster

Producer

Laurence Foster

RTE radio broadcast with Harry Andrews in the title role.

Maya Angelou: Ian McKellen (1995 Television)

Series

Late Late Show with Tom Synder

Director

Brian McAloon

US late night talk and variety show hosted by Tom Synder. May Angelou and Ian McKellen are the guests. McKellen speaks of his role in the film RICHARD III and the nature of costuming and historical accuracy;...

All the World’s a Stage: A Collection of Shakespeare’s Speeches (1995 Audio)

Series

BBC Radio Collection

An anthology of Shakespearean speeches from the BBC Sound Archive. Romeo and Juliet (I iii) - Fay Compton; Hamlet (III i) - Michael Redgrave; Henry V (IV iii) - Richard Burton; King Lear (II iv) - Alec...

As You Like It (1995 Video)

Director

Declan Donnellan

A video recordings (mixed recording) using two cameras of a performance of the Cheek by Jowl Company’s all-male production of As You Like It at the Albery Theatre, London, on 11 February 1995. Adrian...

Falstaff (1995 Television, Video)

Director

Brian Large; Franco Zeffirelli; Paul Mills

Producer

Daniel Anker; Louisa Briccetti

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Falstaff performed by the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by James Levine with Paul Plishka as Falstaff. The production was directed for stage by Paul Mills and...

In the Bleak Midwinter (1995 Film, Video)

aka: Midwinter’s Tale, A

Director

Kenneth Branagh

Producer

David Barron

Feature film. Behind the scenes of a Christmas production of Hamlet. The amateur British actors include a drunk, an ex-child star, and a camp pantomime dame. Kenneth Branagh wrote and directed the film but...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1995 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

Video recording by the National Video Archive of Performance, using three cameras, of a performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Barbican Theatre, London, on 19...

Othello (1995 Film, Video)

Feature film version of the play by first-time director, Oliver Parker. The film was marketed as ‘an erotic thriller’ and Fishbourne, although physically powerful, fails to speak his lines with fluidity...

Richard III (1995 Film, Video)

Director

Richard Loncraine

Producer

Lisa Katselas Pare; Stephen Bayly

Film version of Shakespeare’s play derived from Richard Eyre’s National Theatre production. Set in a context of 1930s’ fascism, where Mosley’s troops have taken power.

Romeo and Juliet (1995 Video)

aka: Rudolph Nureyev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Romeo et Juliette

Director

Alexandre Tarta

Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet recorded in performance at the Opera Bastille. Performed by the Ballet de l’Opera National de Paris and the Orchestre de l’Opera National de Paris conducted by Vello...

Shakespeare Collection, The (1995 Audio)

Series

Hodder Headline Theatre Collection

Simon Callow, Lindsay Duncan, Paul Rhys and Harriet Walter perform a collection of Shakespeare’s poetry and drama.

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1995 Audio)

Series

Poets for Pleasure

The sonnets of Shakespeare read by Simon Callow. The pack includes the printed text.

Twelfth Night (1995 Video)

Director

Ian Judge

Video recording using three cameras (mixed recording) of a performance of a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Twelfth Night at the Barbican Theatre, London, on 26 August 1995. Directed by Ian Judge...

Green Eggs and Hamlet (1995 Film)

Director

Mike O’Neal

Producer

Mike O’Neal

Shakespeare’s play filmed by students at the California Institute of Technology and retold in Dr Seuss-style rhyme. Prince Hamlet wants to avenge his father’s murder, while his loyal servant Sam Iamlet...

Henry IV (1995 Television)

Series

Performance

Director

John Caird

Producer

Annie Castledine

BBC screen adaptation by John Caird which compresses both parts of Henry IV into a three-hour television drama focusing on the father/son relationships in the plays.

Poet, President and the Travelling Players, The (1995 Television)

Series

Bookmark

Director

John Purdie

Television documentary. A record of the English Shakespeare Company’s touring Macbeth production in Malawi under Hasting Banda’s dictatorship. The production was directed by Michael Bogdanov and played...

One Man Show (1995 Television)

Series

Blow Your Mind

Director

Nicola Bruce

Producer

Adam Barker

A week of programmes celebrating the theatre’s contribution to cultural life. Actor, writer and director Steven Berkoff discusses performances and presents characters from his plays - Decadence, East,...

See a Show (1995 Television)

Series

Blow Your Mind

Director

Coky Giedroyc

Producer

Adam Barker

A week of programmes celebrating the theatre’s contribution to cultural life. Frances Barber, Kathy Burke, Brian Cox and Clive Owen star in extracts from the plays Angels in America, The Maids, Happy Days,...

Macbeth (1995 Television)

Series

Blow Your Mind

A week of programmes celebrating the theatre’s contribution to cultural life. Continuing from SEE A SHOW, Frances Barber and Clive Owen perform an extract from Macbeth.

Clueless (1995 Film)

Director

Amy Heckerling

Producer

Scott Rudin; Robert Lawrence

High school comedy loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma. In one brief scene the smart and nonchalent heroine, Cher (Silverstone), in an attempt to assert her sophistication and intellectual superiority...

Rosie, Oh, Rosie Oh! (1995 Television)

Series

Wishbone

Director

Richard Jernigan

Children’s series featuring a Jack Russell terrier of the same name. The dog lives with his owner Joe Talbot in Oakdale, Texas, a fictional modern day neighbourhood, but he daydreams about being the star...

Fifteen Minute Hamlet, The (1995 Film)

Director

Todd Louiso

Producer

Todd Louiso; Ethan Tucker

Short. A satire on the film industry as if it existed in Elizabethan times. Film director William Shakespeare shoots HAMLET in one reel and in one take. When he screens his 15-minute film for the studio...

Room 101 [08/09/1995] (1995 Television)

Series

Room 101

Director

John Northover

Producer

Lissa Evans

Television chat show in which guests discuss with the host the things they dislike most and would like to consign to ‘Room 101’ (a reference from George Orwell’s novel 1984). Comedian Frank Skinner,...

Madness of King George, The (1995 Film)

Director

Nicholas Hytner

Producer

Stephen Evans; David Parfitt

Adapted from Alan Bennett’s stage play ‘The Madness of George III’, the film focuses on King George’s deteriorating mental condition that opens the door for court intrigue and the usurping of the...

Hamlet: A Monologue (1995 Video)

Director

Robert Wilson (3); Ann-Christin Rommen

A video recording of a performance of theatre designer Robert Wilson’s performance-piece HAMLET: A MONOLOGUE. Wilson, working with Wolfgang Wiens’ text, performs Hamlet as a monologue in 15 scenes. He...