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Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1985 Video)
- Director
- Bill Alexander
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1985 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor set in the 1950s. Directed by Bill Alexander. Peter Jeffrey as Falstaff.
Hamlet of Stepney Green, The (1965 Radio)
- Producer
- Charles Lefeaux
Bernard Kops radio play distills elements freely adapted from Shakespeare’s tragedy into ‘A Sad Comedy with some Songs’ (subtitle). Kop’s one-act play is set in the 1950s lower-middle-class Jewish...
Rest ist Schweigen, Der (1959 Film)
aka: Rest is Silence, The
- Director
- Helmut Kaeutner
- Producer
- Werner Ludwig
Feature film. A modern reworking of Hamlet set in post-war Germany. A young intellectual, John, grieves for his father whose died in mysterious circumstances. His father’s business is taken over by his...
Julius Caesar (1958 Television)
- Series
- Great Plays in Rehearsal
- Director
- Gary Nathanson
Educational television programme broadcast by Wisconsin Public Television featuring Eric Salmon, visiting lecturer at the University of Wisconsin. Rehearsal (in modern dress) of scenes from Julius Caesar...
Desdemona (1957 Radio)
- Series
- Writing for Radio
- Producer
- Douglas Cleverdon
Subtitled ‘An extension of the story of ‘Othello’ set in modern times’, this radio play by Robert Phillips focuses on the Othello-Desdemona-Iago relationship and places it in a 20th century setting....
Giulietta and Romeo (1955 Television)
- Series
- Conrad Nagel Theatre
- Director
- John Mantley
Syndicated anthology drama series. A modernised version of Romeo and Juliet set in a small Italian village where the Capallettie and Montecchis, the local bread and wine makers respectively, squabble over...
Bottom of the Well, The (1951 Radio)
- Producer
- Mary Hope Allen
Radio melodrama by Allan McClelland re-written for broadcasting from his stage-play Call It Madness in collaboration with E.J. King Bull. Starting off with young wannabe actor Denzil (Michael Warre)...
Taming of the Shrew, The (1950 Television)
- Series
- Westinghouse Studio One
- Director
- Paul Nickell
- Producer
- Worthington Miner
A production of The Taming of the Shrew, with a heavily cut text, set in the 1950s.