Dial M for Pizza [24/11/1987] (1987 Radio)

Series

Dial M for Pizza

Producer

Paul Mayhew-Archer

British radio sketch show with Brenda Blethyn and Robert Bathurst. Episode 2 includes a three-minute skit on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. ‘Macbash’, a BBC/Beano collaboration, as the fictional radio...

Advanced Level English: Shakespeare’s Problem Plays 2, The Winter’s Tale (1987 Radio)

Series

Schools Night-Time Broadcasting

Producer

Peter Fozzard

Radio broadcast for schools presented by Margaret Hotine. Includes an interview with director Ronald Eyre and actress Sarah Woodward. The focus of the programme is on The Winter’s Tale.

Advanced Level English: Shakespeare’s Problem Plays 1, Measure for Measure (1987 Radio)

aka: Shakespeare’s Problem Plays 1, Measure for Measure

Series

Schools Night-Time Broadcasting

Producer

Peter Fozzard

Radio broadcast for schools presented by Margaret Hotine. Includes an interview with director Ronald Eyre and actress Sarah Woodward. The focus of the programme is on Measure for Measure.

Walker (1987 Film)

Director

Alex Cox

Producer

Lorenzo O’Brien; Angel Flores Marini

Biopic loosely based on the life of William Walker, an American adventurer who invaded Nicaragua in the 19th century and declared himself president. In once scene Walker and his friends watch a production of...

Macbeth (1987 Television, Video)

Director

Claude d’Anna

Producer

Henry Lange

Verdi’s opera with libretto by F.M. Piave adapted and directed by Claude d’Anna. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Leo Nucci and Shirley Verrett are...

Macbeth (1987 Film)

aka: Shakespeare Trilogy: Macbeth

Director

Pauli Pentti

Producer

Aki Kaurismäki

Feature film. A satirical and black comedy interpretation of the play. A thug named Macbeth starts a gang war at the instigation of his girlfriend who eventually commits suicide. As the mobsters become...

Opera (1987 Film)

aka: Terror at the Opera

Director

Dario Argento

Producer

Dario Argento

Feature film. In this giallo a young opera singer, Betty (Marsillach) gets her big chance to sing Lady Macbeth when the previous star of an avant garde production of Verdi’s Macbeth breaks her leg....

Merchant of Venice, The (1987 Radio)

Director

Martin Jenkins (2)

Producer

Martin Jenkins (2)

Radio adapatation of the play produced and directed by Martin Jenkins. With David Suchet as Shylock and Hannah Gordon as Portia. Music composed by Philip Lane.

Richard II (1987 Radio)

Series

RSC in Repertoire

Producer

M. Corwin

Radio documentary series presented by Linda Cookson. Directors, designers and leading actors discuss the planning and staging of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current stage production of Richard II. The...

Romeo and Juliet (1987 Radio)

Series

RSC in Repertoire

Producer

M. Corwin

Radio documentary series presented by Linda Cookson. Directors, designers and leading actors discuss the planning and staging of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current stage production of Romeo and...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1987 Radio)

Series

RSC in Repertoire

Producer

M. Corwin

Radio documentary series presented by Linda Cookson. Directors, designers and leading actors discuss the planning and staging of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current stage production of A Midsummer...

Macbeth (1987 Radio)

Series

RSC in Repertoire

Producer

M. Corwin

Radio documentary series presented by Linda Cookson. Directors, designers and leading actors discuss the planning and staging of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current stage production of Macbeth. The...

Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Video Commentary, The (1987 Video)

Educational videotape. An examination of the theatres of Shakespeare’s time and an analysis of the stories, characters and themes in Shakespeare’s tragedies. Suzanne L. Wofford, Assistant Professor of...

Ophelia and the Words (1987 Radio)

aka: Ophelia und die Wörter

Series

Werke des Studio Akustische Kunst Nr. 95

Director

Klaus Schöning

Radio play. English-language version of the performance work originally written by Austrian playwright Gerhard Rühm. Rühm’s radio play deconstructs the role of Ophelia by extracting all the key nouns and...

Sense and Senility (1987 Television)

Series

Blackadder the Third

Director

Mandy Fletcher

Producer

John Lloyd

Comedy series. Prince George is worried about his popularity after an anarchist throws a bomb at him. He agrees to recite a brilliant speech by Blackadder, "to show the oppressed masses how unusually...

Troilus und Cressida (1987 Television)

aka: Troilus and Cressida

Director

Dieter Dorn

The Münchner Kammerspiele 1986 production of Troilus and Cressida filmed by German television and shown in two parts. The production is directed by Dieter Dorn with Tobias Moretti as Troilus and Sunnyi...

Outrageous Fortune (1987 Film)

Director

Arthur Hiller

Producer

Ted Field; Robert W. Cort

Feature film. A female buddy-film action comedy. Two very different women (one bold and brassy, the other a prissy snob) meet at auditions at an acting class given by an eminent Russian director. The two...

Mass Für Mass (1987 Television)

aka: Measure for Measure

Director

Adolf Dresen

A production, for Austrian television, of Measure for Measure directed by Adolf Dresen. Joachim Bissmeier is Angelo and Kitty Speiser is Isabella.

Vintersaga, En (1987 Radio)

aka: Winter’s Tale, The

Director

Olaf Molander

Producer

Stefan Johansson

A re-broadcast, on Swedish radio, of The Winter’s Tale with music composed by Lars Erik Larsson. Anders de Wahl is Leontes and Anna Lindahl is Hermione.

Shakespeare Says (1987 Video)

Director

Rick Jones (2)

An American public information/educational film in which African-American actor Rick Jones, wearing Elizabethan costume, warns young people against taking drugs. The transcript is: ‘Life is a precious...

Koening Lear (1987 Video)

aka: King Lear

Director

Bernard Sobel

Video recording, using a single camera, of Bernard Sobel’s 1987 production of King Lear at the Schauspielhaus, Zurich with Hans Dieter Zeidler as Lear.

Romeo a Julie (1987 Video)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Michael Tarant

A video recording of Romeo and Juliet directed by Michael Tarant in 1987 for the East Bohemia Theatre. with Josef Vrana and Romana Chvalova in the title roles.

Northrop Frye (1987 Radio)

Series

Morningside

A weekday morning show of news and human interest stories with interviews hosted by Peter Gzowski. In this edition Northrop Frye, author of the book Northrop Frye on Shakespeare, talks about his reputation,...

New Edition of Shakespeare, A (1987 Radio)

aka: Stanley Wells

Series

Morningside

A weekday morning show of news and human interest stories with interviews hosted by Peter Gzowski. In this edition Peter Gwoski interviews Stanley Wells, co-editor of Shakespeare’s The Complete Works...

Antony and Cleopatra (1987 Audio)

Director

Peter Hall

Live sound recording of Peter Hall’s production of Antony and Cleopatra for the National Theatre with Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench in the title roles.

Much Ado About Nothing (1987 Video)

Director

Peter Moss

A video recording Peter Moss’ production of Much Ado About Nothing for the 1987 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare’s Festival. Richard Monette is Benedick and Tandy Cronyn is Beatrice.

Othello (1987 Video)

Director

John Neville

Video recording of John Neville’s 1987 production of Othello for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with Howard Rollins as Othello and Colm Feore as Iago.

As You Like It (1987 Video)

Director

Robin Phillips

Video recording of Robin Phillips’ 1987 production of As You Like It for the Young Company at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Nancy Palk is Rosalind.

Troilus and Cressida (1987 Video)

Director

David William

Video recording of David William’s 1986 production of Troilus and Cressida for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with Jerry Etienne and Peggy Coffey in the title roles.

Romeo and Juliet (1987 Video)

Director

Robin Phillips

Video recording of Robin Phillips’ 1987 production of Romeo and Juliet for the Young Company at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Albert Schultz and Susan Coyne in the title roles.

Coriolanus (1987 Television)

Director

Gábor Székely

Hungarian television version of the play directed by Gábor Székely for the Katona József Színház with György Cserhalmi as Coriolanus.

Droom (1987 Video)

aka: Macbeth

Director

Apostolos Panagopoulos

Video recording of a puppet theatre production of Macbeth.

Hamlet (1987 Audio)

Director

Ingmar Bergman

Live sound recording of Ingmar Bergman’s 1986 production of Hamlet with Peter Stormare in the title role.

King Lear (1987 Audio)

Director

David Hare

Live audio recording of David Hare’s 1987 production of King Lear with Anthony Hopkins as Lear.

Shakespeare and the Indians (1987 Video)

Director

Karl Genus

Stage recording of the western musical comedy. A young boy who survives a wagon train massacre is taken in by three rugged mountain men. The boy is the only one who can read, and the only book they have is a...

Hamlet After Shakespeare (1987 Audio)

Series

Guest Conductor

Compositions by Alfred Reed for wind ensemble. The Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra is conducted by the composer. Recorded at the Fumon Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Contents: Texana (3:52); Prelude and capriccio (7:00);...

Blue City (1986 Film, Video)

Director

Michele Manning

Producer

William Hayward; Walter Hill

Feature film. B-movie thriller in which a modernised Hamlet is set in Florida and to rock music. Hamlet is a young man who returns home to discover that his father was murdered nine months previously. Based...

Macbeth (1986 Television, Video)

aka: Verdi’s Macbeth

Director

Dave Heather

Producer

Humphrey Burton

A recording of Verdi’s Macbeth taped at a performance of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1972. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by John Pritchard. Glyndebourne production by Michael...

Roving Report 8618d: The Chinese Shakespeare (1986 Video)

aka: Chinese Shakespeare, The

News item. Shakespeare is being performed in China again after 10 years of exile during the cultural revolution. Chinese audiences are flocking to see King Lear (Li-Ya Wang) portrayed as a Chinese warlord....

Coriolanus (1986 Television, Video)

Series

Westinghouse Studio One

Director

Paul Nickell

Producer

Worthington Miner

A modern dress production set in Fascist Germany. Filmed on a primitive set, heavily cut, and with cutaway shots which reveal cameramen crouching in the wings. Originally broadcast on Westinghouse Studio One...

Nobody’s Fool (1986 Film)

Director

Evelyn Purcell

Producer

James C. Katz

Feature film. A withdrawn girl who becomes pregnant by her boyfriend is shunned by the people in her small American town of Buckeye Basin. After the baby has been put up for adoption she escapes to the world...

Atomic Shakespeare (1986 Television)

Series

Moonlighting

Director

Will MacKenzie

US comedy detective series. ATOMIC SHAKESPEARE opens with a boy who is disappointed that he has to read Shakespeare for his homework, rather than watch his favourite programme MOONLIGHTING. Dejectedly he...

Withnail & I (1986 Film)

Director

Bruce Robinson

Producer

Paul Heller

Feature film. Black comedy about two down-on-their-luck actors holidaying in the Lake District in 1969. Richard Griffiths, as Withnail’s gay uncle, frequently quotes from Hamlet, and the film ends...

Every Clown Wants to Play Hamlet (1986 Television)

Series

Sorry!

Director

David Askey

Producer

David Askey

Sitcom centred around Timothy Lumsden, a depressed 41-year-old who still lives at home with, and is dominated by, his mother. In this episode Timothy is the prompter for the local dramatic society production...

Other People’s Dreams (1986 Television)

Series

Inner Eye

Director

Andrew Snell

Producer

Andrew Snell

Television programme in a series on human consciousness. Psychologist Nicholas Humphrey discusses why we care about fictional characters, using as illustration a performance from Hamlet (III iv). During the...

Comedy of Errors, The (1986 Video)

Director

Robert Shampain

A videorecording of the production by Company Commedia, Ltd at Washington Square Church in New York City.

In the Classroom: Kevin Kline and Joseph Papp Discuss ‘Hamlet’ (1986 Video)

Two discussions on Shakespeare’s Hamlet conducted with New York City high school students. In the first (in an unidentifed classroom) Kline discusses his views and experiences of playing Hamlet, currently...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1986 Television)

Director

Kirk Browning

Producer

John Goberman

Live television production of Mendelssohn’s ballet choreographed by George Balanchine and directed by Kirk Browning. Television host is Patrick Watson and commentator Martin Bookspan.

Measure for Measure, A (1986 Video)

Director

Mark Zeller; Barbara Vann

Video recording of the Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble musical production. Conceived and adapted by Mark Zeller, choreography by Regan Vann; staged by Barbara Vann.

Tempest, The (1986 Video)

Director

Julie Taymor

A videotape recording of the stage production by the Theatre for a New Audience of The Tempest. Robert Statell is Prospero.