Rami og Julie (1988 Film)

aka: Rami and Juliet Rami et Juliet

Director

Erik Clausen

Producer

Marianne Christensen

Feature film. Rami is a Palestianian refugee living in contemporary Copenhagen. He meets Julie, a woman at a petrol station, who shelters him when he flees Frank and his gang of racist thugs. Rami leaves...

Radio Commercials for Nysf Shakespeare Marathon August 1988 (1988 Radio)

A sixty second radio commercial about the New York Shakespeare Festival Marathon performed by Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.

1600 - The Tragic Divide - Shakespeare (1988 Video)

Series

Symbolic History - Through Sight and Sound

Producer

Woody Vasulka; Steina Vasulka

Part 19 in a 39-part narrated slide show on Western cultural history by Charles G. Bell of St John’s College, New Mexico. The video edition was produced by artists Steina and Woody Vasulka. The video...

Directing Shakespeare (1988 Audio)

Series

Sdfc Masters of the Stage

Audio debate. Shakespearean acting teacher Ada Brown Mather discusses directing Shakespeare with Zoe Caldwell, Gerald Freedman and Stuart Vaughn. Mather introduces the work of the panellists, and then...

Macbeth (1988 Video)

Director

Anne McNaughton

Video recording of the 1988 VITA Shakesperae Festival staging of Macbeth directed by Anne McNaughton. Role names not known.

Much Ado About Nothing (1988 Video)

Director

Gerald Freedman

Video recording of the play directed by Gerald Freedman for the 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival. Kevin Kline is Benedick and Blythe Danner is Beatrice.

From Lady Macbeth to Katerina and Back Again (1987 Television)

Michael Berkeley talks to David Pountney, Mark Elder and Edward Downes about Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

Tamer Tamed, The (1987 Video)

Director

R. Jeffrey Cohen

Video recording of the play by John Fletcher first performed in 1611 and a comedic sequel to Shakespeare’s 1594 play The Taming of the Shrew. Videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Eric Miller....

Hamlet Liikemaailmassa (1987 Film, Video)

aka: Hamlet Gets Business Hamlet Goes Business

Director

Aki Kaurismäki

Producer

Aki Kaurismäki

Feature film. A re-working in film noir style of Hamlet. Old Hamlet is president of a Helsinki timber mining and shipping empire. He is poisoned by his managing director, Klaus (Salminen), so that he and...

Charles Ricketts’ Stage Designs (1987 Multimedia)

Series

Theatre in Focus

Slide set. Between 1906 and his death in 1931, Charles Ricketts was the foremost practising designer of his generation in England working with Shaw, Granville Barker, Yeats and Sybil Thorndike. The slides...

China Girl (1987 Film, Video)

Director

Abel Ferrara

Producer

Michael Nozik

Independent feature film. Set in New York’s Lower East Side, a reworking of Romeo and Juliet and updating of WEST SIDE STORY using rock music. The interracial love affair between an Italian boy and a...

Hamlet (1987 Video)

Director

Roderick Macdonald

Producer

Roderick Macdonald; Richard Spaul

Cambridge Experimental Theatre’s Hamlet, adapted for the stage by Roland Kenyon, challenges the entrenched notions of naturalism, sanctity of text, one-man-one-part and the tragic male hero, in a...

Macbeth (1987 Video)

Director

Brian Large

Producer

Luca Ronconi

Verdi’s opera performed live at the Deutsche Oper and conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli, Berlin in June 1987. Renato Bruson is Macbeth.

Making Shakespeare (1987 Video)

Director

Brian Musgrove; Charles Ritchie

Uses video technology as a vehicle for arguments about current understanding of Shakespeare. Weaves performance, archive and film material with class and studio work in an attempt to consolidate recent...

Voltaire and Tragedy (1987 Multimedia)

Series

Theatre in Focus

Slide set. Voltaire was the dominant figure in French dramatic production in the 18th century, and his influence as a tragedian spread throughout Europe. The slide set surveys his contribution to the...

William Poel and the Elizabethan Stage Society (1987 Multimedia)

Series

Theatre in Focus

Slide set. Photographs of William Poel’s productions, especially those which he mounted for the Elizabethan Stage Society between 1893 and 1905. Also illustrations showing both how Poel’s work was...

William Shakespeare: Background for His Works (1987 Film, Video)

Presents scenes from Shakespeare’s plays, examples of his stagecraft and the landscapes in which many of his plots are set. Examines how his life, locale and times shaped literature.

King Lear (1987 Film)

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Producer

Menahem Golan; Yoram Globus

Feature film version of the play. Widely criticised and a commercial failure, the film was received as an interesting deconstruction or completely unintelligible according to taste. The film makes the...

Shakespeare (1987 Television)

Series

Cosby Show, The

Director

Jay Sandrich

US television sitcom about the Huxtable family, an African-American family living in New York City. Dr Heathcliff (`Cliff’) Huxtable (Cosby) is a obstetrician, and his wife Clair (Rashid), is an attorney;...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1987 Television)

Director

David Tissa

Producer

Jet Willers

Television programme. A performance of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman, is interwoven with animated characters from...

Comedy of Errors, The (1987 Television)

Series

Live from Lincoln Center

Director

Gregory Mosher; Robert Woodruff; Kirk Browning

Producer

Bernard Gersten

Television recording of the ‘circus’ production performed live at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Centre, New York City in June 1987. This vaudeville production included circus acts from the Flying...

Shakespeare on Broadway: Belasco Theatre Opening and Press Conference (1987 Video)

Unedited video recording of the opening ceremony and press conference related to Shakespeare on Broadway, also known as the Belasco Project. The project was initiated by Joseph Papp to offer free productions...

Romeo and Juliet (1987 Video)

Ballet. Video recording of a production of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, choreographed by John Butler.

Fortunes of War. Episode 2: June 1940 (1987 Television)

Series

Fortunes of War

Director

James Cellan Jones

Producer

Betty Willingdale

Television serial, in seven parts, based on the Balkan and Levant trilogies, Olivia Manning’s autobiographical accounts of her travels with her husband Reggie Smith between 1939 and 1943. Together for the...

Two Loves: Poetry and Music from the Age of Elizabeth I (1987 Television)

Producer

Ron Isted

Programme of Shakespeare’s poetry and John Dowland’s music to celebrate Peggy Ashcroft’s 80th birthday. Includes extracts from Othello, Venus and Adonis, The Phoenix and Turtle and Shakespeare’s...

Twelfth Night (1987 Film)

Director

Neil Armfield

Producer

Don Catchlove

Film of a modern dress stage production directed by Neil Armfield.

Shakespeare and the Storytellers (1987 Audio)

Sound recording. Professor Stanley Wells delivers The Shakespeare Lecture at the 1987 Cheltenham Literature Festival. Wells discusses Shakespeare’s plays as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb, Mary Seymour,...

Kiss Me, Kate (1987 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of Kiss Me, Kate. Directed by Adrian Noble with Nichola McAuliffe as Lilli Vanessi and Paul Jones as Fred...

Julius Caesar (1987 Video)

Director

Terry Hands

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of Julius Caesar. Directed by Terry Hands with Nicholas Farrell as Mark Antony and Roger Allam as Brutus.

Merchant of Venice, The (1987 Video)

Director

Bill Alexander

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of The Merchant of Venice. Directed by Bill Alexander with Antony Sher as Shylock.

Twelfth Night (1987 Video)

Director

Bill Alexander

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of Twelfth Night. Directed by Bill Alexander with Harriet Walter as Viola and Antony Sher as Malvolio.

Titus Andronicus (1987 Video)

Director

Deborah Warner

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of Titus Andronicus directed by Deborah Warner with Brian Cox as Titus. A landmark production, shocking...

Taming of the Shrew, The (1987 Video)

Director

Jonathan Miller

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Jonathan Miller with Brian Cox as Petruchio and Fiona Shaw as...

Measure for Measure (1987 Video)

Director

Nicholas Hytner

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of Measure for Measure. Directed by Nicholas Hynter with Josette Simon as Isabella and Sean Baker as Angelo.

Joseph Papp Discusses the Movie ‘Den Tragiska Historien om Hamlet-Prins av Denmark’ (1987 Video)

Joseph Papp comments on the made-for-television film DER TRAGISKAHISTORIEN OM HAMLET-PRINS AB DENMARK broadcast on WNYC-TV. Includes Papp’s introduction to the film, his comments during the interval, and...

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1987 Video)

Director

Richard E.T. White

Video recording of a performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor staged as part of the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival. Directed by Richard E.T. White with Gail Chugg as Falstaff.

Why Shakespeare? 2 (1987 Television)

Series

English File

Producer

Geoff Wilson

BBC schools television programme presented by Steve Blacknell which looks at two Shakespeare plays. Estelle Kohler and Emrys Jones from the Royal Shakespeare Company play first Olivia and Malvolio and then...

Different Kind of Adventure, A (1987 Television)

Series

Seven Ages

Director

Jonathan Stedall

Producer

Jonathan Stedall; Michael Croucher

Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...

Prams and Tigers (1987 Television)

Series

Seven Ages

Producer

Jonathan Stedall; Michael Croucher

Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...

Slugs and Spice (1987 Television)

Series

Seven Ages

Producer

Jonathan Stedall; Michael Croucher

Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...

Girl Called Dick, A (1987 Television)

Series

Seven Ages

Director

Michael Croucher

Producer

Jonathan Stedall; Michael Croucher

Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...

Bossy Wee Things (1987 Television)

Series

Seven Ages

Director

Michael Croucher

Producer

Jonathan Stedall; Michael Croucher

Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...

Few Pills and a Good Brisk Walk, A (1987 Television)

Series

Seven Ages

Director

Jonathan Stedall

Producer

Jonathan Stedall; Michael Croucher

Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...

It’s Not Fat, It’s Muscle (1987 Television)

Series

Seven Ages

Director

Michael Croucher

Producer

Jonathan Stedall; Michael Croucher

Shakespeare’s famous line-up from As You Like It is newly explored for the 1980s in a series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ronald Eyre. Each episode deals with a different stage of...

Roman Comedy (1987 Video)

Series

Theatre: The Search for Style

Director

Jack Eddleman

A series studying the history of theatre. Through the ages, playwrights of comedy were indebted to the Roman master of farce and comedy, Plautus. Chief among them was William Shakespeare, whose grammar...

Shakespeare’s Parables of Power. Part 1: Henry VIII (1987 Video)

A series studying the history of theatre. This programme examines attempts by characters in Henry VIII to play power games. Introduced by Niccolo Machiavelli, scenes from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII depict...

King Lear (1987 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Chris Hunt

Producer

Chris Hunt

Television anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. Programme on the staging of King Lear around a rehearsal in the National Theatre of David Hare’s production with Anthony Hopkins in the title...

Carol, Carl, Whoopi & Robin (1987 Television)

Series

Carol Burnett Special

Director

Korman Harvey; Roger Beatty

Producer

Stephanie Sills; Dick Clair; Jenna McMahon

A special in the comedy and music series hosted by Carol Burnett. Includes a brief sketch in which Carl Reiner and Robin Williams have a backstage talk which leads to a parody of Shakespeare with Reiner...

Room of One’s Own, A (1987 Television)

Director

Patrick Garland

Producer

Bill Shepherd

`A Room of One’s Own’ is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. first published in 1929, and based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women’s colleges at...

Laurence Olivier’s 80th Birthday Celebrations: What Will Survive of Us is Love (1987 Television)

aka: What Will Survive of Us is Love

Director

Patrick Garland

Producer

Patrick Garland

Laurence Olivier talks to Patrick Garland from his home in Sussex, and reads his own choice of poetry and prose from William Shakespeare and other writers.