SHAKESPEARE

Interview: Leo Butler (2008 Audio, Multimedia)

Playwright Leo Butler talks to Aleks Sierz about his new work, One of These Days, a play commissioned by the RSC as part of the Complete Works Festival. Inspired by readings of The Tempest, the play is an...

Interview: Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett (2008 Audio, Multimedia)

Philip Fisher talks to Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, joint-artistic directors of the British theatre company Frantic Assembly, about their radical new vision of Shakespeare’s Othello playing at the...

Curse of Rome (2008 Multimedia, Video)

Director

Kenneth Doren

Video work by Kenneth Doren. Doren’s statement from the CASP website: "`The Curse of Rome’ for solo voice subverts Shakespeare’s text of ‘Julius Caesar’ to the restructuring of melodies based on...

Conversation with Sir Ian McKellen, A (2007 Multimedia)

aka: Stagework

Director

Martin Percy; Peter Reynolds

Producer

Tanya Lock

Using an interactive format created by BT, online education partner of the National Theatre, the website gives audiences (and particularly young people who are studying Richard III as part of the national...

Sir Peter Hall (2007 Multimedia)

Producer

Tamsin Newmark

Peter Hall talks about his life and work. The video is presented in 5 parts divided into 40 segments (or stories) of about 4 minutes each. Sir Peter Hall talks about his early life, life at Cambridge...

Shakespeare: Oliver Ford Davies (2007 Audio, Multimedia)

Online audio recording of an interview with Shakespeare actor Oliver Ford Davies. Davies talks to Heather Neill about his career, his latest book Performing Shakespeare (2007), and the challenges of playing...

Andrzej Wajda (2007 Multimedia)

Producer

Tamsin Newmark

Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda talks about his life and work. In a three minute segment (story 182 0f 233) he recalls a conversation he had with Akira Kurosawa about Shakespeare and the screen. A full...

Shakespeare: The History Plays, Part 1 (2007 Audio, Multimedia)

Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speaks about the cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays which he has directed. He also speaks of the advantages of the thrust stage and how...

Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (2007 Audio, Multimedia)

Rebecca Gatward, director of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre 2007 production of The Merchant of Venice, talks to Heather Neill about her conception of the play and its staging. She speaks about how...

Shakespeare Says ... (2007 Multimedia)

Series

Shakespeare Says...

Producer

Paul Fleming

Online videoblog hosted by the ‘Dark Lady’ alias E-Verse Contessa Jessica who offers a lexical compendium of words that Shakespeare coined from A-Z. Each weekly blog posting focuses on a different...