Sir Peter Hall (1992 Radio)

Series

Kaleidoscope

Producer

Anthony Deneslow

Radio arts series. Sir Peter Hall talks to Paul Allen about his life and work, and his passion for Shakespeare.

Beatrice et Benedict (1992 Radio)

aka: Beatrice and Benedict

Radio broadcast. Berlioz’s opera with Susan Graham and Jean-Luc Viala singing the title roles. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Opera de Lyon are conducted by John Nelson.

Hamlet (1992 Video)

Director

Marcelo Marchioro

A Brazilian version of Hamlet directed by Marcelo Marchioro. The play explores contemporary political and ideological issues and, coincidentally, premièred on 20th August 1992, one month before the...

Measure for Measure (1992 Audio)

Director

Trevor Nunn

Live sound recording of Trevor Nunn’s 1991 production of Measure for Measure for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Claire Skinner is Isabella.

Michael Pennington on the English Shakespeare Company (1991 Audio)

Series

Platform Recording

Irving Wardle interviews Michael Pennington about his work with the English Shakespeare Company.

Third Ear [14/01/1991] (1991 Radio)

Series

Third Ear

Michael Bogdanov is interviewed by Paul Whitebrook about his current work for the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the English Shakespeare Company. Includes references to Bogdanov’s recent productions of...

Message in the Marble, The (1991)

Series

Strange Stories

Gwyn Richards searches for reasons why the monument to Shakespeare, erected in 1741 in Westminster Abbey, contains a passage from The Tempest which is misspelt. With David Vann as Prospero.

Third Ear [15/04/1991] (1991 Radio)

Series

Third Ear

Producer

Fiona McLean

Guy Woolfenden talks to Natalie Wheen about composing music for Royal Shakespeare Company productions.

Michael Pennington (1991 Radio)

Series

Conversation Piece

Producer

Gillian Hush

Radio broadcast. Sue MacGregor talks to Michael Pennington, co-founder of the English Shakespeare Company, about his life and work.

Romeo and Carrot (1991 Television)

Series

Gordon the Gopher

Producer

Claire Winyard

Children’s puppet show. Phillip and Zoe audition for Romeo and Juliet selecting the balcony scene. Phillip is unsuccessful as he is too interested in Gordon’s crossword. Gordon does a very good Romeo.

Richard III (1991 Audio)

Director

Terry Hands

Live audio recording of Terry Hand’s 1981 staging of Richard III for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Alan Howard in the title role.

Builder’s Tale, The (1991 Video)

The story behind the preservation of the Rose Theatre, over which the Rose Court office development is built. It reveals the problems that were caused after the remains of the Shakespearean theatre were...

Close Reading and Production: ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1991 Audio)

John Russell Brown discusses key scenes from Antony and Cleopatra. The recording is based on the director’s dialogue with actors as a production is about to be born. It provides a focus for discussion,...

Close Reading and Production: ‘King Lear’ (1991 Audio)

John Russell Brown discusses key scenes from King Lear. The recording is based on the director’s dialogue with actors as a production is about to be born. It provides a focus for discussion, preferably...

Close Reading and Production: ‘Twelfth Night’ (1991 Audio)

John Russell Brown discusses key scenes from Twelfth Night. The recording is based on the director’s dialogue with actors as a production is about to be born. It provides a focus for discussion, preferably...

Hamlet: Claudius (1991 Video)

Series

Shakespeare Explorations

Director

Ray Tracy

Educational videotape. Presented by Patrick Stewart and produced by teachers who are Shakespearean experts, the programme is intended to be used both before studying the play (to give insight into the...

Men of Respect (1991 Film, Video)

Director

William Reilly

Producer

Ephriam Horowitz

Gangster film based loosely on Macbeth, and set in the world of the New York Mafia, a young man wins the respect of his godfather by murdering the leaders of a rival family. In his quest for total power he...

My Own Private Idaho (1991 Film)

Director

Gus Van Sant

Producer

Allan Mindel

Feature film. A story about street hustlers that incorporates a reworking of the Hal/King Henry/Falstaff triangle. Some of the dialogue is taken from Henry IV Part 1.

Prospero’s Books (1991 Film)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Kees Kasander

Feature film based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Prospero is given 24 books to lessen the pain of his exile on a barren island. Greenaway interprets The Tempest as a mind reviewing its entire contents, and...

Romeo and Juliet (1991 Multimedia)

Series

Karaoke Shakespeare

Allows the user to play individual roles in Romeo and Juliet along with professional actors, reading lines from the screen as other parts are being spoken. Contains the full text of the play, full spoken...

Shakespeare on Location (1991 Video)

John Earl and Karen Elsender, both teachers of A-level English, work with their students at Ford Castle in Northumberland using drama and video techniques to make Shakespeare come alive. The video shows...

Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ (1991 Multimedia)

An exploration of Twelfth Night with material on Elizabethan England, theatre history, Shakespeare’s life and times, a series of guided tours and a glossary. Uses the metaphor of a theatre of memory to...

Theatrical Motion Pictures from the Paper Print Collection (1991 Video)

Early films from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, shown in their entirety. Titles are ‘The drunkard’s reformation’ (March 1909), made by the American Motoscope...

JFK (1991 Film)

Director

Oliver Stone

Feature film. A fictional account of the conspiracy around John F. Kennedy’s assassination investigated by district attorney Jim Garrison. Garrison quotes ‘One may smile and smile and be a villain’ (1...

Peter Greenaway: Anatomy of a Film-Maker (1991 Television)

Series

Omnibus

Director

David Thompson

Television arts documentary. Documentary on the film-maker Peter Greenaway with special reference to PROSPERO’S BOOKS. The programme covers Greenaway’s approach to film-making and narrative, showing how...

Royal Gala: Symphony for the Spire (1991 Television)

Director

Mike Mansfield

Producer

Hilary Stewart

Television programme. A charity concert devised by Prince Charles in support of the Salisbury Cathedral spire appeal. Placido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Ofra Harnoy, Charlton Heston and Phil Collins give...

La Story (1991 Film)

Director

Mick Jackson

Producer

Daniel Melnick; Michael Rachmil

Feature film romantic comedy and an ironic celebration of Los Angeles. Harris Telemacher (Martin) is a Shakespeare-quoting weather presenter for a Los Angeles television station. Martin begins by reciting a...

True Identity (1991 Film)

Director

Charles Lane

Producer

Carol Baum; Teri Schwartz

Feature film comedy. Miles Pope is a black actor trying to make a name for himself on the stage. He finds himself in danger when he discovers that a supposedly dead Mafia chief, Frank Luchino, is the patron...

Sonho de Uma Noite de Verao (1991 Video)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Director

Caca Rosset

Video recording of the performance by the Brazilian theatre company Teator Do Ornitorrinco staged as part of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Festival Latino.The production incorporated mime, acrobatics,...

Othello (1991 Television)

Series

Eyewitness News

News item on the production of Othello staged at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1991. Includes short interviews with director Joe Dowling and actors Raul Julia (Othello). Kathryn Meisle (Desdemona),...

Tempestad, La (1991 Video)

aka: Tempest, The

Director

Carlos Gimenez

A videotape recording of a production of The Tempest staged by the Venezuelan theatre group Rajatabla as part of the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Festival Latino. Directed for stage by Carlos Gimenez,...

Lady Macbeth (1991 Radio)

Series

Devil’s Advocate

Producer

Kate Boston

BBC Radio 4 series in which famous villains are given a re-trial. In this episode agony aunt and columnist Irma Kurtz makes a case for Lady Macbeth to moderator Clive Anderson.

Richard III (1991 Radio)

Series

Devil’s Advocate

Producer

Kate Boston

BBC Radio 4 series in which famous villains are given a re-trial. In this episode politician and writer Roy Hattersley argues that Shakespeare’s Richard III was the victim of a press conspiracy.

Troilus and Cressida (1991 Video)

Director

Sam Mendes

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1990 production of Troilus and Cressida. Directed by Sam Mendes with Amanda Root as Cressida, Ralph Fiennes as Troilus and...

King Lear (1991 Video)

Director

Nicholas Hytner

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1990 production of King Lear. Directed by Nicholas Hytner with John Wood as Lear.

Much Ado About Nothing (1991 Video)

Director

Bill Alexander

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1990 production of Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Bill Alexander with Roger Allam as Benedick and Susan Fleetwood as...

Richard II (1991 Video)

Director

Ron Daniels

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1990 production of Richard II. Directed by Ron Daniels with Alex Jennings as Richard.

Comedy of Errors, The (1991 Video)

Director

Ian Judge

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1990 production of The Comedy of Errors. Directed by Ian Judge with Desmond Barrit doubling as the Antipholus twins.

Glory and the Dream, The (1991 Television)

Series

John Sessions’s Tall Tales

Director

Geoff Posner

Producer

Geoff Posner

A series of six one-man plays written and performed by actor/comedian/writer John Sessions and recorded at London’s Half Moon Theatre. In this second episode, an American tourist visits Shakespeare’s...

Newsnight [22/04/1991] (1991 Television)

Series

Newsnight

The NEWSNIGHT episode includes a lighthearted report by Mark Easton comparing Prince Charles (whose favourite Shakespeare play is Henry V) to a Shakespearean prince. The programme also comprises interviews...

I Hate Hamlet (1991 Video)

Director

Michael Egler

A 20 minute reviewer’s reel for Paul Rudnick’s play I Hate Hamlet. Set in Manhattan, the action takes place in an apartment, once inhabited by John Barrymore. Andrew, a television star who has been...

Braggart Samurai (1991 Video)

Director

Mansaku Nomura

A Kyogen adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Mansaku Nomura and adapted by Yasunari Takahashi. An introductory talk (in Japanese) precedes the play.

Shakespeare’s First Folio and the Nebraska Copy (1991 Video)

Lecture given by Peter Blayney.

King Lear (1991 Video)

Director

David Davidge

King Lear performed by the Bob Jones University Classic Players. Directed by David Savidge with Bob Jones Jr as Lear.

Shakespeare’s First Folio and the Nebraska Copy (1991 Video)

Lecture given by Peter Blayney.

Shakespeare and the Varieties of Human Experience (1991 Video)

Series

Superstars Teachers

Producer

Jay Reed

8 lectures on Shakespeare’s plays by Professors J. Dennis Huston and Peter Saccio. The works discussed are: The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, Richard III, Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, Othello...

Living Shakespeare: A Year with the RSC (1991 Television)

Series

Omnibus

Director

David Evans (2)

Producer

David Evans (2)

Documentary made to mark the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 30th anniversary and Adrian Noble’s first season as Artistic Director. Follows Company members David Bradley, Barry Lynch, Scott Ransome and...

Chance of a Lunchtime (1991 Television)

Series

Only Fools and Horses

Director

Tony Dow

Producer

Gareth Gwenlan

Sitcom centred on the wheeling and dealing of the Trotter brothers who run an ‘import export’ business from their South Peckham flat. In this episode Del’s wife Raquel, dreaming of a career on stage,...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1991 Radio)

Series

Sunday Play

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Clive Brill

Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play produced and directed by Clive Brill. With Emma Fielding as Puck and Tony Armatrading as Bottom. The music is composed and directed by Dominique Legendre; Carol...

Bugsy (1991 Film)

Director

Barry Levinson

Producer

Barry Levinson; Warren Beatty; Mark Johnson (2)

Feature film. The story of Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, the East coast mobster who came to Hollywood in the 1940s to take over the West coast racketeering business, was seduced by its glamour and became...