Princes’ Choice: A Personal Selection, The (1995 Audio)

Series

Hodder Headline Audiobooks

Audio cassette. HRH, The Prince of Wales’ selection of passages from Shakespeare read by actors and actresses including John Gielgud, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, Juliet Stevenson and Bernard Cribbins.

Shakespeare’s Musick: Songs and Dances from Shakespeare’s Plays (1995 Audio)

Songs and dances from Shakespeare’s plays by Musicians of the Globe conducted by Philip Pickett. Music by Thomas Morley, John Dowland, Robert Johnson and William Byrd together with Anonymous are performed...

School for Murder (1995 Television)

Series

Murder, She Wrote

Director

Vincent McEveety

Murder mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as the mystery writer-cum amateur detective, Jessica Fletcher. In this episode there is rivalry for the coveted post of headmaster at St Crispin’s Academy....

Dwaj Panowie z Werony (1995 Television)

aka: Two Gentlemen of Verona, The

Director

Roland Rowinski

Production, for Polish television, of The Two Gentleman of Verona directed and adapted by Roland Rowinski. Marek Bukowski is Proteus and Rafal Krolikowski is Valentine.

Koriolan (1995 Television)

aka: Coriolanus

Director

Miroslaw Bork

A production, for Polish television, of Coriolanus directed by Miroslaw Bork with Andrzej Seweryn in the title role.

Was ihr Wollt (1995 Video)

aka: Twelfth Night

Director

Klaus Weise

A video recording, using a single camera, of Klaus Weise’s 1995 production of Twelfth Night for the Schauspielhaus, Zurich. Christiana Kruger is Viola.

Lady Macbeth Wäscht Sich die Hände Nicht Mehr (1995 Video)

aka: Lady Macbeth Doesn’t Wash Her Hands Anymore

Director

Andreas Herrmann

A videorecording, using a single camera, of Maja Beutler’s two-hander play. Hetti Bickel is the fifty-year old rich, bored and lonely wife of industrialist. Nick. Nick forgets her birthday and she decides...

Peines d’Amour Perdues (1995 Video)

aka: Love’s Labour’s Lost

Director

Laurent Pelly

A video recording of Laurent Pelly’s 1995 production of Love’s Labour’s Lost for Le Cargo-CDN. With Pascal Elso as the King of Navarre and Jean-François Sivadier as Berowne.

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1995 Video)

Director

Richard Monette; Antoni Cimolino

Video recording of Richard Monette and Antoni Cimolino’s 1995 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. William Hutt is Falstaff.

Macbeth (1995 Video)

Director

Marti Maraden

Video recording of Marti Maraden’s production of Macbeth for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Scott Wentworth and Seana McKenna are the Macbeths.

Comedy of Errors, The (1995 Video)

Director

Richard Rose

Video recording of Richard Rose’s 1995 production of The Comedy of Errors for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival.

Kung Lear (1995 Video)

aka: King Lear

Director

Magnus Bergquist

A video recording of Svenska Riksteatern’s staging (for national touring) of King Lear directed by Magnus Bergquist with Tomas Laustiola as Lear.

Midsommarnattsdröm, En (1995 Video)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Director

Olle Pettersson

Video recording of Olle Pettersson’s 1995 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream produced by Teater Västernorrland.

Stormen ‘Nu’ (1995 Video)

aka: Tempest, The

Director

Tom Fjordefalk

Video recording of Tyst Teater’s production of The Tempest adapted, in sign language, for deaf actors. Staged as part of the Teaterbiennalen, Malmö the play is directed by Tom Fjordefalk with Jiancu Iancu...

Terry Hands (1995 Audio)

Terry Hands, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is interviewed about his career, with particular reference to the financial difficulties which had dogged the Company in years prior to the...

Ubu (1995 Film)

Director

Manuel Gómez

Animated version of Alfred Jarry’s play by Manuel Gómez which uses animated pieces of meat. The play offers parodic adaptations of situations and plots from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth,...

Tianguo Niezi (1995 Film)

aka: Day the Sun Went Cold, The Day the Sun Turned Cold, The

Director

YIM Ho

Producer

YIM Ho

Feature film. An oedipal mystery melodrama informed by Hamlet. A young man named Guan Jin (TA Chung Wa) walks into a police station, offering information about a 10-year-old murder. He says that the victim...

Romeo és Júlia (1995 Video)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Árpád Jutocsa Hegyi

Video recording of Árpád Jutocsa Hegyi’s 1995 production of Romeo and Juliet for the Miskolci Nemzeti Színház with Károly Kuna and Kriszta Bíró in the title roles.

Early Romantic Era Program Music (1995 Audio, Video)

Series

Concert Masterworks

Lecture by Professor Robert Greenberg of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In programme four of the series Professor Greenberg lectures on Felix Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music, op. 61 and Overture...

Macbeth! (1995 Video)

Director

Luk van Meerbeke

Video recording of the Stuffed Puppet Theatre’s production of Macbeth directed by Luk van Meerbeke. Puppetry designed by Neville Tranter.

Kleine Romeo en Julia, Een (1995 Video)

Director

Liesbeth Coltof

Video recording of a stage production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Liesbeth Coltoff with Tessa du Mée and Peter van Heeringen in the title roles.

Perykles (1995 Television)

aka: Pericles

Director

Maciej Prus

A Polish television version of Pericles directed for younger viewers by Maciej Prus.

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1995 Video)

Director

Terry Hands

Video recording of Terry Hands’ 1995 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor with Denis Quilley as Falstaff.

As You Like It (1995 Video)

Director

Dan Chumley

Video recording of As You Like It filmed at Free Shakespeare in the Park and directed by Dan Chumley. Stacy Ross is Rosalind.

Twelfth Night (1995 Video)

Video recording using a single, fixed camera, of Ian Judge’s 1995 production of Twelfth Night with Desmond Barrit as Malvolio and Emma Fielding as Viola.

West Side Story Suite (1995 Video)

Video recording of a performance by the New York City Ballet of the suite by Jerome Robbins derived from ‘West Side Story’. Taped with a single camera from a fixed wide-angle position at the New York...

Fran Gets Mugged (1995 Television)

Series

Nanny, The

Director

Lee Shallat-Chemel

US sitcom concerning a young Jewish woman, Fran Fines (Drescher), who is employed as a nanny by a rich divorced husband with three children. In this episode a valuable Shakespearian document is taken from...

Se7en (1995 Film)

aka: Seven

Director

David Fincher

Producer

Phyllis Carlyle; Arnold Kopelson

Murder thriller revolving around a serial killer obsessed with the seven deadly sins, who uses the sins themselves as calling cards in a series of ritualistic murders. The gruesome murder of the prominent...

As You Like It (1994 Television)

Series

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Director

Alexei Karaev

The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own.

King Lear (1994 Video)

Director

Yvonne Brewster

Video recording, using three cameras, of a performance of King Lear by the Talawa Theatre Company at the Cochrane Theatre, London. Ben Thomas is Lear.

King Lear (1994 Video)

Director

Yvonne Brewster

Video recording using a single camera (wide shot) of a rehearsal for a production of King Lear by the Talawa Theatre Company at the Cochrane Theatre, London. Ben Thomas is Lear.

King Richard III (1994 Television)

Series

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Director

Natalia Orlova

The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own.

Othello (1994 Television)

Series

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Director

Nikolai Serebriakov

The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own.

Romeo et Juliette (1994 Video)

Director

Brian Large

Producer

Stephany Marks

Television broadcast. A performance of the Gounod opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The production by Nicolas Joel is sung in French with English subtitles. Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the...

Shakespeare Cinema (1994 Video)

Video-based teaching pack containing film clips to aid in the examination of the written texts to see how each director interprets the same scene. 1 (1993): Clips from adaptations of HAMLET by Olivier,...

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, The: 1946-1960 (1994 Multimedia)

Series

Theatre in Focus

Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the developments...

Shakespeare’s Life and Times (1994 Multimedia)

A hypercard-based program on Shakespeare covering biography, social and cultural background, theatre and plays, and the texts themselves. Also includes over 2200 colour graphics of Renaissance life and art,...

Taming of the Shrew, The (1994 Television)

Series

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Director

Aida Ziablikova

The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own.

King Lear (1994 Audio, Radio)

aka: Tragedy of King Lear, The

Series

Sunday Play

Director

Glyn Dearman

Producer

Kenneth Branagh; Glyn Dearman

Radio version of the play, co-produced by the Renaissance Theatre Company and BBC Radio 3. With John Gielgud in the title role. Incidental music by Patrick Doyle. Produced in celebration of John Gielgud’s...

Winter’s Tale, The (1994 Television)

Series

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Director

Stanislav Sokolov

The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own.

Shakespeare - Playing the Dane (1994 Television)

aka: Playing the Dane

Producer

Anthony Lee

Actors who have played Hamlet discuss why they perceive the role as a benchmark in their careers. The programme includes stills and film extracts from performances by Olivier, Richard Burton and Mel Gibson.

Shakespeare on the Estate (1994 Television)

Director

Penny Woolcock

Television documentary. Follows theatre director Michael Bogdanov as he spends three weeks on an inner city estate in Ladywood, Birmingham persuading local people to rehearse and perform Shakespeare. Records...

Measure for Measure (1994 Television)

Series

Performance

Director

David Thacker

Producer

Peter Cregeen; Simon Curtis

A modern dress version directed by David Thacker with Corin Redgrave as Angelo and Juliet Aubrey as Isabella.

Irresistible Rise of William Shakespeare (1994 Television)

Director

Julian Birkitt

Producer

Julian Birkitt

Television documentary. John Tusa investigates Shakespeare’s reputation over four centuries. Aspects covered include examination of forgeries, nationalism and political implications. Extracts from films...

Bardbrain of Britain (1994 Television)

Director

Janet Fraser Cook

Producer

Franny Moyle

A one-off quiz, comprising five rounds, in which four Shakespeare fans answer questions on Shakespeare competing for the title King or Queen of Shakespeariana. Questions include ‘how many Antonios are...

Shakespeare Laboratory: Part 1, The (1994 Television)

Director

Bob Bentley

The first of two programmes in which two directors from both sides of the Atlantic (Adrian Noble and Peter Sellars) use workshops to explore their personal visions of Shakespeare’s plays. In part 1 Adrian...

Shakespeare Laboratory: Part 2, The (1994 Television)

Director

Bob Bentley

In part 2 theatre and opera director Peter Sellars works with a multi-racial cast on his new production of The Merchant of Venice, in which Venice becomes Venice Beach, LA and Belmont is transformed into Bel...

Curious Knotted Garden, A (1994 Television)

Series

Will’s World

Director

Gail Taylor

The first of five short films which give a guide to life in Shakespeare’s time. Botanist David Bellamy assesses the legacy of Elizabethan gardens.

Exceedingly Fyne Clothes (1994 Television)

Series

Will’s World

Director

Daniel Percival

The second programme in the series on life in Elizabethan England. David Stafford discusses fashion arguing that it was an extension of the class system where elaborate sumptuary laws defined what you could...

Battle of Wills (1994 Television)

Director

Samira Osborne

Television documentary. Discusses the authorship of Shakespeare. Thomas Bokenham, chairman of the Francis Bacon Society, believes he has discovered a cypher system that Bacon used to encrypt messages in the...