Romeo and Juliet (2012 Radio)

Series

Drama on 3

Director

Jessica Dromgoole

Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy directed by Jessica Dromgoole. With Trystan Gavelle and Vanessa Kirby in the title roles. Music composed by Roger Goula and sound design by Colin Guthrie.

Off by Heart Shakespeare (2012 Television)

Director

James Runcie

Producer

James Runcie

Television documentary aimed at getting young people engaged with Shakespeare’s language. Over the past year thousands of secondary schoolchildren took part in a competition to learn some of...

Shakespeare’s Restless World: Swordplay and Swagger (2012 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Restless World

Producer

Paul Kobrak

Fifth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...

Shakespeare’s Restless World: Plague and the Playhouse (2012 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Restless World

Producer

Paul Kobrak

Seventeenth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean...

Romeu e Julieta (2012 Video)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Gabriel Villeta

Video recording of the Grupo Galpão’s production of Romeo and Juliet for the Globe to Globe season; the staging incorporates circus, music, dance and Brazilian folk culture. Eduardo Moreira and Fernanda...

Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad (2012 Video)

Director

Monadhl Daodd

Video recording of Baghdad’s Iraqi Theatre Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company for the World Shakespeare Festival. The play is set in contemporary...

In Fair Palestine: A Story of Romeo and Juliet (2012 Film)

Director

Yazan Nahas

Producer

Doug Hart

Drama documentary produced by Palestinian high school students at the Quaker-run Ramallah Friends Schools in the West Bank. It tells the story of Romeo and Juliet in the contemporary context of life in...

Shakespeare Unlocked (2012 Film, Multimedia)

The series of 12 short films for each play are designed to help students develop their understanding of the language, character development and dramatic devices at the core of the GCSE English Shakespeare...

R & J : The True Story (2012 Film)

Director

Christopher D. Turner

Shakespeare’s story told through the camera of a documentary film-maker.

Music for the Theatre (2012 Radio)

aka: Theatre Music: Shakespeare

Series

Afternoon on 3

Second in a series of four programmes, presented by Penny Gore, featuring music written for Shakespeare’s plays. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by actors live at the Maida Vale Studios in incidental...