Venus Truant (1990 Video)

Experimental modern dance from the Amsterdam-based company Dansproduktie, choreographed by Phil Griffin and inspired by Venus and Adonis.

King Lear (1990 Video)

Director

Sam Bogaerts

Video recording of the Toneelgroep’s production of King Lear directed by Sam Bogaerts with Ton Lutz in the title role.

Szeget Szeggel (1990 Video)

aka: Measure for Measure

Director

György Lengyel

Video recording of György Lengyel’s 1990 production of Measure for Measure for the Pécsi Nemzeti Színház. Györgyi Illés is Isabella.

King Lear (1990 Audio)

Director

Deborah Warner

Live sound recording of Deborah Warner’s 1990 production of King Lear for the National Theatre with Brian Cox in the title role.

Merchant of Venice, The (1990 Video)

Director

Peter Hall

Video recording of The Peter Hall Company’s production of The Merchant of Venice with Dustin Hoffman as Shylock.

Torn Apart (1990 Film)

aka: Forbidden Love

Director

Jack Fisher

Producer

Danny Fisher; Doran Eran; Jerry Menkin

Feature film re-locating Romeo and Juliet to modern Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Romeo is an Israeli Jew and Juliet a young Palestinian. The film doesn’t follow the text but alludes to many...

The Isle is Full of Noises (1990 Video)

Educational videotape describing multidisciplinary arts approaches to Shakespeare’s The Tempest showing how theatre in education can aid understanding.

Arts Review Round Up (1990 Audio)

Open University Arts Review 12. Jenny Lecoat talks to Cicely Palser Havely, Senior Lecturer in Literature at the Open University and Team Chair of the OU’s A361 Shakespeare course. They discuss the...

Olivier: Hamlet to Hollywood (1990 Audio)

Series

Platform Recording

Gawn Grainger leads a panel discussion at the National Theatre on Olivier’s film and stage career. Panellists: Richard Attenborough, Felix Barker, Fabia Drake, Barry Norman and Richard Pasco.

Richard III [Excerpts] (1990 Video)

Director

Robin Phillips

Reviewers’ showreel. Denzel Washington as Richard III in the 1990 production staged by the Public Theatre in Central Park as part of the New York Shakespeare Festival.

King Lear (1990 Video)

Director

Lee Breuer

Video recording of Lee Breuer’s production of King Lear set in the American South in the 1950s, with the gender roles of the major characters reversed: Lear is a woman with three sons. Videotaped for TOFT...

Actors’ Workshop [21/01/1989] (1989 Radio)

Series

Actors’ Workshop

Producer

Merilyn Harris

Actress Sheila Hancock and Guildhall drama students Xanthe Gresham and Peter Wingfield explore the craft of the actor. This episode focuses on Shakespeare. With instruction from actor Ian McKellen. Includes...

As You Like It (1989 Audio)

Director

Peter Wood

A complete performance of the play with Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind.

Romeo and Juliet (1989 Video)

Series

Bolshoi at the Bolshoi

Director

Motoko Sakaguchi

The Prokofiev ballet performed by the Bolshoi Ballet. Choreography by Yuro Grigorovich from original choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky. Irek Mukhamedov and Natalya Bessmertnova dance the title roles.

Dead Poets Society (1989 Film, Video)

Director

Peter Weir

Feature film set in 1950s America. An unconventional teacher inspires his pupils, one of whom (Neil Perry) is seen as Puck in a school production a A Midsummer Night’s Dream, parts of which are shown...

Henry V (1989 Film)

Director

Kenneth Branagh

Producer

Bruce Sharman

Feature film version of Shakespeare’s play. Kenneth Branagh’s directorial debut which is widely regarded as heralding a ‘renaissance’ in filmed Shakespeare in the 1990s.

Practical Criticism: Reading Skills and the Enjoyment of Shakespeare (1989 Audio)

Series

Critical Forum

Peter Mercer studies the endings of Othello and Macbeth in a manner that resonates backwards through the entire works. He reminds the listener that any group of actors producing and performing drama must use...

Romuald et Juliette (1989 Film)

aka: There’s a Man in Your Bed

Director

Coline Serreau

Producer

Philippe Carcassonne; Jean-Noel Piel

A modern version of the Romeo and Juliet story, here between a rich white businessman and his black cleaning woman.

Sir John Gielgud (1989 Television, Video)

aka: John Gielgud: An Actor’s Life

Director

Dave Heather

Producer

John Miller

John Gielgud, in conversation with John Miller, looks back on his early career, the other artists who influenced him, and his partnerships with Oliver, Richardson, Wolfit, Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft and Edith...

Little Touch of Harry: The Making of Henry V, A (1989 Television, Video)

Director

Mary Gwatkin

Producer

David Parfitt; Ron Fisher

Documentary on the making of Kenneth Branagh’s HENRY V. Shows the film in production and provides , extracts from the finished film and interviews with actors and crew.

Dustin Hoffman and Peter Hall (1989 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Tony Know

Producer

Tony Know

Television arts documentary. Sir Peter Hall rehearses with Dustin Hoffman and other cast members of the Peter Hall Company for the London stage production of The Merchant of Venice. Filmed over one complete...

Laurence Olivier 1907-1989: A Tribute (1989 Television)

Series

Omnibus

Television arts programme. A tribute to Laurence Olivier, broadcast on the day of his funeral. A somewhat hastily assembled miscellany of clips and critical assessments. The deepest insight comes in part...

Saving the Rose Theatre (1989 Television)

Series

London Programme

Director

Nick Metcalfe

Producer

Nick Metcalfe

Television current affairs programme presented by Trevor Phillips. The campaign to save the site of the Rose Theatre, recently discovered on London’s South Bank during constructions for an office block....

Hysteria 2 (1989 Television)

aka: Shakespeare Sketch

Director

David G. Croft

Producer

Trevor Hopkins

Television charity variety show to support World Aids Day. The event was directed by Stephen Fry and directed for television by David G. Croft. Includes a sketch (c6 mins) in which Rowan Atkinson (in...

Night of Comic Relief 2, A (1989 Television)

Television charity variety revue. An evening of comedy acts, classic comedy shows and reports on the charities benefiting from the programme in Great Britain and Africa. Includes Jonathan Pryce and comedian...

Peter Brook (1989 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

David Thomas

Producer

David Thomas

Television arts documentary. Melvyn Bragg interviews Peter Brook, covering the whole of his career, with specific reference to the production of The Mahabharata, but also including rare extracts from the...

Late Show with Clive James, The [20/01/1989] (1989 Television)

Series

Late Show with Clive James, The

Director

Pieter Morpurgo

Producer

Elaine Bedell

Discussion programme chaired by Clive James. The week’s topic is Shakespeare. With the RT Hon. Kenneth Baker, MP, Professor Terence Hawkes and actress Fiona Shaw.

Edward IV (1989 Video)

Series

Plantagenets, The

Director

Adrian Noble

An adaptation into three parts of all three parts of Henry VI, and Richard III. The plays were performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the titles Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III. They were...

Romeo and Juliet (1989 Video)

Director

Terry Hands

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1989 production of Romeo and Juliet. Directed by Terry Hands with Mark Rylance as Romeo and Georgia Slowe as Juliet.

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1989 Video)

Director

John Caird

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1989 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Directed by John Caird with John Carlisle and Clare Higgins doubling...

Coriolanus (1989 Video)

Director

John Barton; Terry Hands

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1989 production of Coriolanus. Directed by John Barton and Terry Hands with Charles Dance as Coriolanus and Barbara...

King John (1989 Video)

Director

Deborah Warner

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the 1988 Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King John. Directed by Deborah Warner with Nicholas Woodeson as King John and Ralph Fiennes as Louis...

All’s Well That Ends Well (1989 Video)

Director

Barry Kyle

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1989 production of All’s Well That Ends Well. Directed by Barry Kyle with Gwen Watford as the Countess.

Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989 Film)

Director

Steven Soderbergh

Producer

Robert Newmayer; John Hardy

Low-budget independent feature film. Ann and John appear happily married but, unknown to Ann, John is having an affair with Ann’s sister Cynthia. An old college friend of John, Graham, comes to visit and...

Tempest, The (1989 Video)

Director

Nicholas Hytner

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1988 production of The Tempest. Directed by Nicholas Hytner with John Wood as Prospero. Masques staged by Martin Duncan.

Hamlet (1989 Video)

Director

Ron Daniels

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1989 production of Hamlet. Directed by Ron Daniels with Mark Rylance in the title role.

Macbeth (1989 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1988 production of Macbeth. Directed by Adrian Noble with Miles Anderson and Amanda Root as the Macbeths.

Twelfth Night [Excerpt] (1989 Video)

Director

Harold Guskin

Reviewer’s reel for Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night in 1989. Directed by Harold Guskin with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Viola and Jeff Goldblum as Malvolio.

Conte d’Hiver, Le (1989 Television)

aka: Winter’s Tale, The

Director

Pierre Cavassilas; Luc Bondy

A production staged by the Theatre des Amandiers. Directed by Luc Bondy for stage and by Pierre Cavassilas for television with Michel Piccoli as Leontes and Bulle Ogier as Hermione.

Hamulaite (1989 Video)

aka: Hamlet

Director

Zhaohua Lin

Video recording of a stage performance of Hamlet given at the Beijing People’s Arts Theatre. ‘Lin Zhaohua adopted a radical approach in staging his Hamlet in Beijing by abandoning the orthodox "Western...

Winter’s Tale, A (1989 Television)

Series

Never the Twain

Director

Nick Hurran

Producer

Anthony Parker; Johnnie Mortimer

Special episode in a British sitcom created by Johnnie Mortimer about two feuding ex-business partners and neighbours Simon Peel (Donald Sinden) and Windsor Davies (Olive Smallbridge) broadcast at the end of...

Late Show, the [14/09/1989] (1989 Television)

Series

Late Show, The

Producer

Jamie Muir

Arts and media programme presented by Sarah Dunant. Includes an item (16 mins) on Russian theatre director Yuri Lyubimov rehearsing Hamlet with English actors at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester. Lyubimov...

Late Show, The [22/11/1989] (1989 Television)

Series

Late Show, The

Director

Janet Fraser Cooke

Arts and media programme presented by Tracey MacLeod. Includes an item (11 mins) on British theatre director Michael Bogdanov, now Artistic Director of the Deutches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Includes scenes...

Taming of the Shrew, The (1989 Radio)

Series

Friday Play, The

Director

Jeremy Mortimer

Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play adapted and directed by Jeremy Mortimer. With Bob Peck as Petruchio and Cheryl Campbell as Katherina. The music is composed by Mia Soteriou and performed by Tom...

William Shakespeare and the Politics of Culture (1989 Radio)

Series

Soundings

Radio broadcast. Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield discuss Shakespeare and the politics of culture; moderated by Wayne Pond.

Resan till Melonia (1989 Film, Television)

aka: Journey to Melonia: Fantasies of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, The

Director

Per Ahlin

Producer

Katinka Farago; Klas Olofsson

Animated feature film inspired by The Tempest, directed and animated by Per Ahlin. A children’s film about the evils of industrial capitalism with a strong ecological message. The tropical paradise island...

Dancing All over the World: An Evening with Charles Cook and Friends (1989 Video)

Director

Charles Cook

Producer

Susan Goldbetter

An evening of folk and tap dancing, narrated by Leroy Meyers, and performed by Charles ‘Cookie’ Cook and friends, with Pat Cannon’s Foot and Fiddle Dance Company and Norma Miller’s Swinging at the...

Reine des Fees, La (1989 Television)

aka: Fairy Queen, The

Director

Yvon Gérault

A French television recording of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen directed for stage by Adrian Noble and for television by Yvon Girault. Performed at the Festival International d’Art Lyrique, Aix-en-Provence by...

Hamlet: Carling Black Label Advertisement (1989 Television)

Television advertisement for Carling Black Label lager. Hamlet, in Elizabethan dress, and holding Yorick’s skull on stage recites ‘Alas, poor Yorick/I knew him’. He drops the skull to gasps from the...

Hamlet (1989 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Chris Hunt

Producer

Chris Hunt; Melvyn Bragg

Anthology television documentary arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. Documentary on Hamlet and its many performances and interpretations. The focus is on three 1989 productions directed by Richard Eyre...