Hamlet As Minister and Scourge (1990 Video)

Series

Eminent Scholars/Teachers

Director

Rick Import

Producer

Matthew J. Bruccoli; Richard Layman

Lecture. Fredson Bowers lectures on the passage in which Hamlet, after the stabbing of Polonius, seems to express his understanding of the mistake he has made in murdering an innocent man.

Stand-Up Shakespeare (1990 Television)

Series

Adrienne Clarkson Presents

Director

Mark Blandford

Producer

Mark Blandford

A revue. Readings from Shakespeare and songs set to music. Performed cabaret-style in the pub’Will’s Place’. The music embraces jazz, baroque, samba and gospel-rock. First staged by the Shubert...

Discovering Hamlet (1990 Television)

Director

Mark Olshaker

Producer

Larry Klein

Documentary. Follows four weeks of rehearsal as Derek Jacobi directs Kenneth Branagh in the lead role in the Renaissance Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet. The actors describe stage action and the...

Performing Shakespeare: Techniques for Personalising and Energising the Scene (1990 Video)

Educational videotape. Kathleen Conlin presents a series of physical exercises to aid performance of the Shakespeare text. Designed for the American actor, it moves from the exploration of specific words and...

Othello (1990 Film)

Director

Ted Lange

Producer

Katherine A. Kaspar

Feature film version of Othello. The production focuses strongly on the intraracial hatred, a concept seen in casting choices and textual cuts. Afro-Americans play Othello, Emilia and Iago.

Pericles (1990 Video)

Director

David Thacker

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the 1989 Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Pericles. Directed by David Thacker with Nigel Terry as Pericles.

As You Like It (1990 Video)

Director

John Caird

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1989 production of As You Like It. Directed by John Caird with Sophie Thompson as Rosalind.

Two Shakespearean Actors (1990 Video)

Director

Roger Michell

Video recording of the play by Richard Nelson staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Nelson gives an account of the rivalry between two great 18th century actors, one quintessentially American (Edwin...

Love’s Labour’s Lost (1990 Video)

Director

Terry Hands

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1990 production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Directed by Terry Hands with Simon Russell Beale as the King of Navarre...

Salisbury Plain (1990 Radio)

Series

And Now in Colour

Producer

Lissa Evans

Episode 5 (Series 1) of the comedy sketch show contains a two-minute skit on "The Mind of a Shakespearean Actor". It reproduces the interior monologue of an actor who is performing Macbeth at the theatre.

Late Show, The [25/01/1990] (1990 Television)

Series

Late Show

Producer

John Bush

BBC arts and media magazine series. In this episode presenter Sarah Dunant interviews Professor Gary Taylor on his book Reinventing Shakespeare (1989) and his claim that Shakespeare does not merit all the...

When Hamlet Went to Mizoram (1990 Film)

Director

Pankaj Butalia

Documentary. Mizoram is a small state on the Northeastern border of India, where, J.F. Laldailova, an officer in the British army, introduced the people of Mizoram to Shakespeare, translating his works into...

First Look at Macbeth (1990 Video)

Producer

R.M. Curtis

Educational videotape. "For those about to study the play and for those who will never see or read it, here is a superbly acted paraphrase of Macbeth that concentrates on showing the excitement of...

Hamlet (1990 Television)

Director

Pierre Cavassilas; Patrice Chereau

Television version of the production staged by Theatre des Amandiers, Nanterre at the Avignon Festival in 1988. Directed for stage by Patrice Chereau and for television by Pierre Cavassilas. Gerard Desarthe...

Brian Cox (1990 Television)

aka: Acting in Shakespearean Tragedy

Series

Acting

Producer

Maria Aitken; David G. Croft

A masterclass presentation. Brian Cox conducts a workshop with a group of young actors, taking tragedy as his theme, and includes excerpts from Hamlet, Macbeth, and, The Changeling.

Romeo-Juliet (1990 Film)

Director

Armando Acosta

Producer

Armando Acosta; Paul Celis; Lanny Mickelson; Andree Castagne

Film version of Romeo and Juliet casting the feral cats of Venice, New York and Ghent as actors with voices dubbed by established actors of the British theatre. Filmed as a concert, with music from Prokofiev...

Alive from off Centre (1990 Television)

aka: Stuff As Dreams Are Made on

Series

Words on Fire

Producer

John Schott

Series of arts programmes featuring the work of avant garde artists. In this episode, in a solo performance piece entitled ‘Stuff As Dreams Are Made On’ , Fred Curchack puts on a variety of masks and...

Nynex Yellow Pages: Theatrical Coaches (The One Show 1991: Television Medal Winners and Selected Finalists) (1990 Television)

Director

Kevin Godley

Producer

Andrew Chinich

US television commercial for NYNEX Yellow Pages. A baseball manager with a penchant for quoting Shakespeare says, ‘to bunt or not to bunt, that is the question, whether ‘tis nobler to lay one down the...

King Lear (1990 Video)

Director

Robert Sturua

A video recording of King Lear directed by Robert Sturua and translated into Georgian by Sturua, C. Tcharkviani and L. Popkhadze. Ramaz Tchkhikvadze as Lear.

Heinz Ketchup - Shakespeare (1990 Film)

Advertisement. A man quotes Shakespeare to impress a female companion at a diner. No further information known (12/2007).

Julius Caesar (1990 Radio)

Series

Sunday Play

Director

Richard Imison

Producer

Richard Imison

Radio adaptation produced and directed by Richard Imison with Paul Daneman as Caesar and Michael Maloney as Brutus.

Voice-Over Queen, The (1990 Film)

Director

Alyse Rosenberg

Producer

Paula Schapp

Fiction short. Drama about a voice-over actress proficient in making noises which imitate household appliances in television advertisements. Seeking recognition as an artist she auditions for Hamlet but...

Centrepoint (1990 Television)

Director

Piers Haggard

Producer

Frank Rosso; Joanna Smith

Four-part television thriller by Nigel Williams which loosely retells the Hamlet story set in London’s Docklands at the time of its commercial development. Roland (Firth) lives with his mother Maria...

Staging of Shakespeare’s Plays, The (1990 Video)

Series

Eminent Scholars/Teachers

Director

Rick Import

Producer

Matthew J. Bruccoli; Richard Layman

Educational videotape. George Walton Williams traces the development of theatrical playing areas in England before Shakespeare, demonstrating with a model of the Swan Theatre how certain scenes in...

Getemde Feeks, De (1990 Television)

aka: Taming of the Shrew, The

Director

Berend Boudewijn; Dirk Tanghe

Producer

Frank Jansen

The Taming of the Shrew directed for television by Berend Boudewijn and Dirk Tanghe with Wim Danckaert as Petruchio and Gert Portael as Katherina.

King and the Fool, The (1990 Video)

Director

Yossi Turisky

Producer

Beth Hatefutsoth

The Yiddish Theatre in Moscow flourished during the cultural renaissance that followed the Russian Revolution. Two of the moving forces behind the theatre were Solomon Mikhoels and Benjamin Zuskin,...

Ein Kessel Buntes [01/09/1990] (1990 Television)

Series

Ein Kessel Buntes

Director

Karlgerhard Seher

Producer

Guenter Steinbacher

Variety show. 13-minute parody sketch presented by black German singer Roberto Blanco and Helga Hahnemann as part of their popular GDR television variety show. The sketch depicts Desdemona sitting on her bed...

Sex Lear und Schroeter (1990 Film)

aka: Sex, Lear and Schroeter

Director

Peter Kern

Short documentary film about Werner Schroeter’s theatre production of King Lear at the Duesseldorfer Schauspielhaus in Germany in 1990. The production was noted mostly for its display of nudity and sexual...

Kaufmann von Venedig, Der (1990 Television)

aka: Merchant of Venice, The

Director

Peter Zadek; George Moorse

A German television recording of the production directed for stage by Peter Zadek and for television by George Moorse. Gert Voss is Shylock.

Poskromienie z o Nicy (1990 Television)

aka: Taming of the Shrew, The

Director

Michal Kwiecinski

A version, for Polish television, of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Michal Kwiecinski with Joanna Szczepkowska as Katherine and Janusz Gajos as Petruchio.

Macbeth (1990 Television, Video)

aka: Herman Finkers: Macbeth

Director

Herman Finkers

Hand-drawn animation based on Macbeth directed, written and voiced by the Dutch cabaret artist Herman Finkers. Animation by John Croezen and Sieger Zuidersma.

Romeo in Julija (1990 Video)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Barbara Hieng Samobor

A video recording of the stage production of Romeo and Juliet by the Ljublijana City Theatre (MGL), directed by Barbara Hieng Samobor with Boris Ostan and Mirjam Korbar in the title roles.

Scottish Play, The (1990 Radio)

Series

Actor’s Life for Me, An

Producer

Paul Spencer

Radio comedy series written by Paul Mayhew-Archer about actor Robert Wilson (John Gordon Sinclair) who is trying to make it in the business. In this episode (1 of series 2), Wilson (despite his Scottish...

Zkrocení Zlé ženy (1990 Video)

aka: Taming of the Shrew, The

Director

Karel Skladan

A video recording of Karol Skladan’s 1990 production of The Taming of the Shrew for the West Bohemia Theatre. Marek Smid is Petruchio and Jarmila Simcikova is Katherina.

Shakespeare was a Greek (1990 Television)

Series

Acropolis Now

Director

Pino Amento

An Australian sitcom set in a Greek coffee shop of the same name. In this episode Liz takes Jim to see a Shakespeare play. Jim likes it so much he wants to stage Romeo and Juliet in the cafe and pays a...

Macbeth (1990 Video)

Director

David William; Robert Beard

Video recording of David William’s and Robert Beard’s production of Macbeth for the 1990 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Brian Bedford and Goldie Semple are the Macbeths.

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1990 Video)

Director

Bernard Hopkins

Video recording of Bernard Hopkins’ production of The Merry Wives of Windsor for the 1990 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. James Blendick is Falstaff.

Julius Caesar (1990 Video)

Director

Richard Monette

Video recording of Richard Monette’s 1990 production of Julius Caesar for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Scott Wentworth is Mark Antony and Nicholas Pennell is Julius Caesar.

Shakespeare at the RSC: The Tempest (1990 Radio)

aka: Tempest, The

Series

Shakespeare at the RSC

Producer

Peter Fozzard

First in a series of radio programmes on ‘Shakespeare at the RSC’ in which "A new production ... is discussed by the cast as they work on it". Presented by Linda Cookson. Director Nick Hytner, David...

Shakespeare at the RSC: Othello (1990 Radio)

aka: Othello

Producer

Peter Fozzard

Second in a series of radio programmes on ‘Shakespeare at the RSC’ in which "A new production ... is discussed by the cast as they work on it". Presented by Linda Cookson. Director Trevor Nunn and...

Shakespeare at the RSC: King Lear (1990 Radio)

aka: King Lear

Producer

Colin Smith (2)

Third in a series of radio programmes on ‘Shakespeare at the RSC’ in which "A new production ... is discussed by the cast as they work on it" . Presented by Linda Cookson. Director Cicely Berry and...

Shakespeare at the RSC: Coriolanus (1990 Radio)

aka: Coriolanus

Producer

Peter Fozzard

Last in a series of radio programmes on ‘Shakespeare at the RSC’ in which "A new production ... is discussed by the cast as they work on it". Presented by Linda Cookson. Director John Barton and members...

Seven Lears (1990 Audio)

Director

Kenny Ireland

Live audio recording at the Royal Court Theatre, London of Howard Barker’s play Seven Lears, a prequel to King Lear in which Barker re-invents and enlarges the roles of Lear’s women. The play is divided...

Third Ear [19/11/1990] (1990 Radio)

Series

Third Ear

Director

Julian May

Peter Brook talks to Paul Allen about his production of The Tempest performed in French with a multicultural cast. Brook speaks of his methods of directing.

Shakespeare in Africa (1990 Radio)

Producer

Peter Fozzard

In 1989 the British Council backed the Cherub Company tour of Ethiopia, Sudan and Zimbabwe with a production of Twelfth Night. Compiled and presented by Paul Copley and Natasha Pyne.

König Lear (1990 Video)

aka: Koenig Lear King Lear

Director

Robert Wilson (3)

Video recording of Robert Wilson’s King Lear with Marianne Hoppe as Lear.

Richard III (1990 Video)

Director

László Márton

Video recording of Márton László's 1990 production of Richard III for the Vígszinház, Budapest with András Kern as Richard.

Defector, The (1990 Television)

Series

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Director

Robert Scheerer

Producer

Gene Roddenberry

This episode about a defecting Romulan General opens with the U.S.S. Enterprise’s Lt. commander Data performing the part of King Henry V on the holodeck. Captain Jean-Luc Picard observes Commander...

Rediscovering Shakespeare (1990 Video)

Teleconference. The first international conference on the Rose and Globe discoveries, ‘New Issues in the Reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Theatre’, was held at the University of Georgia, Athens,...

Words on Fire (1990 Film)

Director

John Sanborn; Skip Blumberg

Producer

Wendell Harrington

A series of short vignettes in which six contemporary storytellers offer their interpretations of the word ‘fire’. Playwright Christopher Durang creates a mini-sitcom on the woes of inactivity;...