Eleven in depth interviews with leading Shakespeare actors and scholars on lifetimes dedicated to studying and performing his work, its background and history.
Sir Derek Jacobi
Special focus: Hamlet, Macbeth, Prospero, playing Shakespeare
Paterson Joseph
Special focus: Othello, Shylock, The Merchant Of Venice
Derek Griffiths
Special focus: Shakespearean Comedy, Feste.
Robert Lindsay
Special focus: Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III
Edward Fox & Joanna David
Special focus: Hamlet, Ophelia, Shakespeare’s language
Freddie Fox
Special focus: As You Like It, Romeo And Juliet
Dr Pauline Kiernan
Special focus: radical Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s stagecraft, Othello, Shylock, The Taming Of The Shrew
Professor Natalie Mears
Special focus: the historical background to Shakespeare’s theatre
Dr Daniel Blank
Special focus: Shakespeare’s stagecraft, theatre of the Elizabethan Age
Dr Danielle Westerhof & Tony King
Special focus: publishing Shakespeare, the First Folio, the Second Folio, Quartos of Shakespeare
Jake Murray
Special focus: directing Shakespeare
Four interviews with the director and principle actors from ‘Othello’.
Jake Murray, Faz Singhateh, Danny Solomon and Hannah Ellis Ryan
Filmed at the Assembly Rooms Theatre, Durham,
Jake Murray – Director
Faz Singhateh – Othello
Danny Solomon – Iago
Hannah Ellis Ryan – Desdemona
Three key sequences from Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth
Jamie Brown as Macbeth & Macy Stasiak as Lady Macbeth
Filmed at the Assembly Rooms Theatre, Durham
Act 1 Sc 5 Lady Macbeth
“You spirits that tend on mortal thoughts.”
Act 2 Sc 1 Macbeth
“Is this a dagger which I see before me?”
Act 2 Sc 2 Lord & Lady Macbeth
The Murder Of Duncan