Surfeit of Meate and Drynke, A (1994 Television)

Series

Will’s World

Third in the series of programmes on Elizabethan England. Cookery writer and chef Prue Leith discusses Elizabethan cuisine.

Regimen of Health, A (1994 Television)

Series

Will’s World

Director

Deborah Wignall

Fourth in the series of programmes on life in Elizabethan England. Doctors Phil Hammond and Tony Gardner discuss remedies in Elizabethan England including the use of leeches.

In Pursuit of Plays (1994 Television)

Series

Will’s World

Director

Steven Clarke

Final programme in the series on life in Elizabethan England. Sandi Toksvig takes a cab round London in search of Elizabethan theatre.

Renaissance Man (1994 Film)

Director

Penny Marshall

Producer

Sara Colleton; Abbott. Elliot; Robert Greenhut

Feature film. Bill Rago, an advertising executive, fails to win a multi-million dollar account. He registers as unemployed and is assigned a six-week job at the MacClane US Army Training Corps as a teacher...

Lion King, The (1994 Film)

Director

Roger Allers; Rob Minkoff

Producer

Don Hahn

Feature animation film. At Pride Rock in Africa, a young lion prince, Simba, is born to Mufasa, king of the lions thus making his embittered and politically ambitious uncle, Scar, the second in line to the...

Animating Shakespeare (1994 Television)

Producer

Jeff Morgan

Television documentary, filmed mainly in Moscow, introducing the Animated Tales series (see entries under individual plays). Narrated by Derek Jacobi.

Trial of Hamlet: Moot Court, The (1994 Television)

Moot court recorded at the United States Supreme Court, West Conference Room, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington D.C, sponsored by the Lawyer’s Committee on the Shakespeare Theatre. The purpose of the trial...

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1994 Video)

Director

Daniel Sullivan

Extracts (reviewer’s reel) from the play directed by Daniel Sullivan. The staging was set in the American West in the mid-19th century.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (1994 Video)

Director

Adrian Hall

Video recording of the New York Shakespeare Festival production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, directed for stage by Adrian Hall and videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker.

Vanessa Redgrave (1994 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Jack Bond

Producer

Tony Cash

Television arts documentary series. Profile and interview with Vanessa Redgrave. Vanessa Redgrave talks to Melvyn Bragg about her father Michael Redgrave and her mother, Rachel Kempson. She speaks of her...

As You Like It (1994 Video)

Director

Garland Wright

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

Witch Hunt (1994 Film)

Director

Paul Schrader

Feature film made for cable. A surreal thriller set in a nostalgic world where magic is integrated into everyday life. Using a fantastical narrative to satirise the McCarthy era of the 1950s, Private...

Essential Shakespeare (1994 Television)

20 readings of well-known Shakespearean speeches, soliloquies and sonnets to support the BBC’s BARD ON THE BOX season (17 October 1994-28 October 1984). These short readings (c 90 seconds each) were not...

Prince Lear (1994 Radio)

Director

Richard Wortley

Radio play in blank verse written by Perry Pontac as a parody prequel to King Lear. Old King Lear (John Moffat in an imitation of Gielgud) is married to Eudoxia (Rosalind Shanks), who after being accused of...

Romeo et Juliette (1994 Radio)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Nicolas Joel

BBC radio broadcast of Gounod’s opera live from Covent Garden. The new production by Nicolas Joel is sung in French. Charles Mackerras conducts the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Covent Garden.

Softest Music to Attending Ears (1994 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Graham Fawcett reflects on Romeo and Juliet as interpreted by composers Bernstein, Bellini and Gounod.

Shakespeare and the Fairy Tale (1994 Radio)

Producer

Robert Bannerman

Radio broadcast. Marina Warner considers the uses Shakespeare makes of fairies and fairy tales including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet.

Director’s Workshop on Hamlet: Gabor Tompa, A (1994 Video)

A recording made during a workshop given by Gabor Tompa, Director of the Hungarian State Theatre in Cluji, Rumania. The workshop took place in September 1994 at The Tramway, Glasgow. It was organised by the...

Universal Shakespeare? (1994 Radio)

Series

Everybody’s Shakespeare

Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In episode one international directors talk about Shakespeare’s universal appeal. Peter...

Shakespeare Our Ally (1994 Radio)

Series

Everybody’s Shakespeare

Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In episode two Kustow examines the political uses of Shakespeare, particularly under...

English, Un-English (1994 Radio)

Series

Everybody’s Shakespeare

Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In episode three Kustow explores the challenges of presenting and studying Shakespeare in...

Shakespeare Minus English (1994 Radio)

Series

Everybody’s Shakespeare

Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In episode four Kustow looks at the challenge of translating Shakespeare into other...

Welcoming the Stranger (1994 Radio)

Series

Everybody’s Shakespeare

Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In the fifth and final episode Kustow looks at the effect of Shakespeare in other cultures....

Shakespeare (1994 Video)

Series

Time Quest Historical Interviews

Director

Wink Grise

Educational videotape. A teacher and pupil travel back in time to 1609 to interview Shakespeare over lunch at the Mermaid Tavern. They question him about the writing and performance of his plays - including...

Tempest: A Study, The (1994 Video)

Director

Jay E. Raphael

Scenes from The Tempest from a 1994 production in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Narration by Krishnan Venkatesh.

Merchant of Venice, The (1994 Video)

Director

David Thacker

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 modern-dress production of The Merchant of Venice set in the world of the international stock exchange. Directed by...

Tempest, The (1994 Video)

Director

Sam Mendes

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 production of The Tempest. Directed by Sam Mendes with Alec McCowen as Prospero and Simon Russell Beale as Ariel.

Love’s Labour’s Lost (1994 Video)

Director

Ian Judge

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Directed by Ian Judge with Jeremy Northam as Berowne and Jenny Quayle as the...

Macbeth (1994 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 production of Macbeth. Directed by Adrian Noble with Derek Jacobi and Cheryl Campbell as the Macbeths.

Henry V (1994 Video)

Director

Maureen Shea

A video recording of the Company of Women’s all-female production of Henry V. Directed for stage by Maureen Shea and for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Diane Goff. Lisa Wolpe is King Henry.

Henry V (1994 Video)

Director

Matthew Warchus

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1994 production of Henry V. Directed by Matthew Warchus with Iain Glen as Henry.

Coriolanus (1994 Video)

Director

David Thacker

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1994 production of Coriolanus. Directed by David Thacker with Toby Stephens as Coriolanus and Caroline Blakiston as Volumnia.

Henry VI: The Battle for the Throne (1994 Video)

Director

Katie Mitchell

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s small-scale touring production of Henry VI. Part 3. Directed by Katie Mitchell with Jonathan Firth as Henry VI.

Measure for Measure (1994 Video)

Director

Steven Pimlott

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the 1994 Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Measure for Measure. Directed by Steven Pimlott with Alex Jennings as Angelo and Stella Gonet as...

Mask and Mirror, The (1994 Audio)

Loreena McKennit’s album includes ‘Prospero’s Last Speech’ where McKennitt sings the epilogue. The song can be listened to on the Amazon.com site.

Great Speeches and Soliloquies (1994 Audio)

Producer

Nicholas Soames

Speeches selected by Perry Keenlyside and read by Simon Russell Beale, Estelle Kohler, Clifford Rose, Sarah Woodward and Daniel Philpott.

Shakespeare for Kids: Midsummer Magic (1994 Video)

Director

Michael Cawelti

Documentary on Carol Upshaw’s Shakespeare for Kids, a summer program of workshops for children who study the drama, history, and popular culture of Shakespeare’s time. The students attend a production...

Miarka za Miarke (1994 Television)

aka: Measure for Measure

Director

Andrzej Pawlowski; Waldemar Stronski

Polish television adaptation of the play directed for stage by Andrzej Pawlowski and for television by Waldemar Stronski. Dominika Ostalowski is Isabella and Marek Walczewski is Angelo.

Building the Globe (1994 Video)

Patrick Spottiswoode and Sam Wanamaker discuss the construction and architecture of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on Bankside.

Richard II (1994 Video)

aka: Tragedy of Richard II, The

Director

Steven Berkoff

Video recording of a production of Richard II directed by Steven Berkoff with Michael Stuhlbarg as Richard.

Titus Andronicus (1994 Video)

Director

Julie Taymor

Video recording of Titus Andronicus directed by Julie Taymor with Robert Stattel as Titus.

Cymbeline (1994 Video)

Director

Erika Lin

Producer

Hugh Richmond

Video recording of a student production of Cymbeline performed by students at the University of California, Berkeley in Faculty Glade.

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1994 Radio)

Producer

Ned Chaillet

Six programmes, broadcast daily, in which Simon Callow explores the hidden meaning of the Sonnets by following a radical reordering by John Padel. Believing that the W.H. is William Herbert, it suggests that...

Measure for Measure (1994 Radio)

Director

Peter Kavanagh

Radio adaptation of Measure for Measure by Peter Kavanagh with Ronald Pickup as the Duke and Saskia Reeves as Isabella.

Every Inch a King (1994 Television)

Series

Omnibus

Director

Nigel Williams

Anthology arts series. Documentary on Robert Stephens’ acclaimed performance as Lear in Adrian Noble’s 1993 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The programme follows Stephens through an entire...

Play’s the Thing, The (1994 Television)

Series

Boy Meets World

Director

David Trainer

American television sitcom that chronicles the events and everyday life lessons of Cory Matthews, who grows up from a pre-pubescent boy to a married man. In this episode Cory is cast to play Hamlet and his...

Midsummer Night’s Scream, A (1994 Television)

aka: Night Show: A Midsummer Night’s Scream, The

Series

Without Walls

Director

Paul Morrison

Producer

Gina Marsh

Spoof arts magazine show. In this episode researcher-turned-director Jenny has the thankless task of interviewing up-and-coming writer William Shakespeare. He is producing his play A Midsummer Night’s...

Shakespeare on Screen (1994 Radio)

Producer

Laura Cumming

Radio broadcast. Louise Swan surveys film adaptations of Shakespeare, examining the work of directors such as Laurence Olivier, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Derek Jarman, Kozintsev, Max Reinhardt,...

König Lear (1994 Television)

aka: Koenig Lear King Lear

Director

C. Rainer Ecke; Dieter Dorn

German television production of Dieter Dorn’s production of King Lear for the Münchner Kammerspiele directed for television by C. Rainer Ecke. With Rolf Boysen as Lear and Thomas Holtzmann as Gloucester.

Sturm vor Shakespeare, Der. Le Petit Rien (1994 Television)

aka: Tempest, The

Director

Christoph Marthaler

A recording, for German television, of Christoph Marthaler’s Sturm vor Shakespeare first staged at the Volksbühne, Berlin in 1994. The production obsessively focused on the short nap Miranda takes,...