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Uniform Title Playing Shakespeare (Television program). Selections.
Title Playing Shakespeare / written by John Barton ; director, John Carlaw ; producer, Andrew Snell ; LWT.

Publication Info. Silver Spring, MD : Athena : Distributed by Acorn Media, [1982]
©2009

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 792.028 PLA DISC 1-4    Check Shelf
Edition Full screen.
Description 4 videodiscs (approximately 456 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer's guide (16 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.)
Note Collective title, episode titles & disc numeration from disc menus.
Originally produced as 9 episodes of the television program Playing Shakespeare in 1982.
Special features (disc 1): actor biographies & RSC stage credits (for Aschcroft, Dench, Howard, Kingsley, McKellen, Stewart, Suchet).
Viewer's guide includes highlights from each episode, questions to consider for each episode, a bibliography, a history of the RSC, and a glossary.
Contents disc 1 (ca. 148 min.). The two traditions -- Using the verse -- Language and character -- disc 2 (ca. 102 min.). Exploring a character -- Set speeches and soliloquies -- disc 3 (ca. 102 min.). Irony and ambiguity -- Passion and coolness -- disc 4 (ca. 104 min.). Rehearsing the text -- Poetry and hidden poetry.
Credits Cameramen, Lisle Middleditch, Mike Paterson ; videotape editor, Graham Roberts ; music by Guy Woolfenden.
Performer Presented by John Barton ; actors: Peggy Ashcroft, Tony Church, Sinead Cusack, Judi Dench, Susan Fleetwood, Mike Gwilym, Sheila Hancock, Lisa Harrow, Alan Howard, Ben Kingsley, Jane Lapotaire, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Ian McKellen, Richard Pasco, Michael Pennington, Roger Rees, Norman Rodway, Donald Sinden, Patrick Stewart, David Suchet, Michael Williams.
Summary John Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in nine intensive acting workshops, demonstrating how the Company makes Shakespeare's classic plays accessible to modern audiences without compromising the text's integrity.
Audience Not rated.
System Details DVD; Dolby digital.
Language In English.
Subtitled for the deaf and hearing-impaired.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Genre/Form Instructional television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Barton, John, 1928-2018
Carlaw, John.
Snell, Andrew.
Ashcroft, Peggy, 1907-1991.
Church, Tony.
Cusack, Sinéad.
Dench, Judi, 1934-
Fleetwood, Susan, 1944-1995.
Gwilym, Mike.
Hancock, Sheila, 1933-
Harrow, Lisa.
Howard, Alan, 1937-2015
Kingsley, Ben, 1943-
Lapotaire, Jane.
Leigh-Hunt, Barbara.
McKellen, Ian.
Pasco, Richard.
Pennington, Michael, 1943-
Rees, Roger, 1944-2015
Rodway, Norman, 1929-2001.
Sinden, Donald.
Stewart, Patrick, 1940-
Suchet, David.
Williams, Michael, 1935-2001.
Woolfenden, Guy.
London Weekend Television (Firm)
Athena (Firm)
Acorn Media (Firm)
Royal Shakespeare Company.
ISBN 9781598282214
1598282212
Standard No. 054961822195
Music No. AMP-8221 Athena
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