SHAKESPEARE

Change in the Weather, A (2008 Radio)

Series

Words and Music

Producer

Elizabeth Funning

Radio programme marking 85 years of weather forecasting on the BBC with poetry and music. The programme includes an excerpt from Shakespeare’s King Lear ('Blow wind and crack your cheeks’) read by Mark...

King Lear (2008 Video)

Director

Dominic Dromgoole

A video recording of King Lear directed by Dominic Dromgoole with David Calder as Lear.

Lotto: King Lear- Scene Stealer (2008 Television)

An advertisement for the National Lottery. Lear speaks over Cordelia’s dead body (V iii l3450-3, ` A Plague upon you...Cordelia) and then another character runs on shouting that he has won the lottery -...

I’m Here I Think, Where Are You? [23/5/2008] (2008 Radio)

Series

I’m Here I Think, Where Are You?

5-part radio serial in which actor Timothy West reads excerpts from his letters, written over the course of 30 years as a touring actor, to his wife, Prunella Scales. In this episode, Timothy West reads the...

Izingane Zobaba (2008 Television)

aka: Father’s Children

Series

Shakespeare in Mzansi

Director

Tim Greene

Producer

Portia Gumede

Mini-series reworking King Lear and set in the lucrative coal distribution industry of Richards Bay. It depicts the lives of two families torn apart by jealousy, greed and deception and incorporates the...

King Lear (2008 Video)

Director

Trevor Nunn; Chris Hunt

Producer

Chris Hunt; Richard Price

A restaging by Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt of Nunn’s 2007 production of King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Ian McKellen in the title role.

Bunch of Amateurs, A (2008 Film)

Director

Andy Cadiff

Producer

David Parfitt

Feature film comedy. Ageing Hollywood star (Burt Reynolds) signs up to play the title role in King Lear in Britain to revive his flagging career. He believes the role is part of a Royal Shakespeare Company...

King Lear (2008 Television)

Director

Trevor Nunn; Chris Hunt

Producer

Chris Hunt; Richard Price

A restaging by Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt of Nunn’s 2007 production of King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Ian McKellen in the title role.

Cinematic Translation of Shakespearean Tragedies, A (2008 Film)

Director

Liz Tabish

Experimental short. A series of six short films based on Shakespeare’s tragedies conceptualised by a variety of film genres: Othello (silent film), Romeo and Juliet (film noir), Hamlet (classic Hollywood...

King Lear (2007 Television)

Director

James Lapine; Richard Stucker

Stage recording of King Lear with Kevin Kline in the title role. Directed for stage by James Lapine and for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker.