SHAKESPEARE

Full Works, The [23/04/2010] (2010 Radio)

aka: Full Works Concert, The

Series

Full Works, The

Radio broadcast presented by John Brunning introducing music on St. George’s Day and the anniversary Of Shakespeare’s death. Shakespeare-related music covers Patrick Doyle’s ‘Overture’ from MUCH...

Moonstruck (2010 Radio)

Series

Words and Music

Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the moon as a symbol of purity, as a capricious, changeable being, as an object to reach in the imagination and through scientific...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2010 Film)

Director

Bo Bergström

Producer

Bo Bergström

Independent feature-length film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Bo Bergström.

Rolf Harris Paints His Dream (2010 Television)

Series

Arena

Director

Vikram Jayanti

Producer

Anthony Wall

Anthology arts series. Rolf Harris dreams of painting the tryst between Titania and Bottom, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Arena invites supermodels Lily Cole and Lizzy Jagger and actresses Emer Kenny...

Fairy Queen, The (2010 Video)

Director

Jonathan Kent

Semi-staged opera in a prologue and five acts based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and directed by Jonathan Kent. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Glyndebourne Chorus are...

Shakespeare à la Carte (2009 Radio)

Series

Afternoon Play

Producer

Karen Rose

Radio version of a theatre production devised by Jonathan Cullen and Richard Hahlo, based on an original idea by Pippa Smith. Actors from the theatre company Hydrocracker, masquerading as waiters in a pizza...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2009 Radio, Television)

Series

Mendelssohn Weekend

Director

Tim Carroll

Producer

David Papp

A special, fully-staged production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Mendelssohn’s complete incidental music, broadcast on air, online and via red button. Director Tim Carroll introduces the production...

Manutsu No Yoru No Yume (2009 Film)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Director

Yuji Nakae

Producer

Shiro Sasaki

Feature film. An adaptation of A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Yuriko (Shibamoto) is a Tokyo office worker who decides to give up big city life and return home to Yokatomi Island in Okinawa to avoid her...

BBC Proms 2009 (2009 Radio)

aka: Fairy Queen

Director

Francesca Gilpin

Live radio transmission from the Royal Albert Hall, London, of a semi-staged production of Purcell’s theatre score The Fairy Queen, directed by Francesca Gilpin. Based on the original production for...

Essential Shakespeare Live Encore, The (2009)

Director

Peter Hall; Trevor Nunn; John Barton; Adrian Noble; Sam Mendes; Michael Boyd; Gregory Doran; Peter Brook; Bill Alexander; David Thacker

Following THE ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE LIVE the two discs feature scenes taken from RSC productions in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, recorded by the British Library and the RSC over almost half a century. As...