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Love's Labour's Lost & Love's Labour's Won [Much Ado About Nothing] (recorded live at Stratford-Upon-Avon in March 2015) Royal Shakespeare Company / Sam Alexander, Peter Basham, William Belchambers, Edward Bennett, David Horovitch, Chris Nayak [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2016 ] Containing Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost and Love's Labours Won, this double set features outstanding Royal Shakespeare Company productions available for the very first time. Running time: 4 hours 48 minutes (plus extras) Subtitles:... |
Royal Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare: Richard III WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [ Opus Arte / DVD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Young Richard of Gloucester uses the chaos of the Wars of the Roses to begin his unscrupulous climb to power. Despite being manifestly unfit to govern, he seizes the crown as King Richard III. But how does he do it? How do we let tyrants get away... |
The Shakespeare's Globe Collection (27 DVD Box Set)
[ Opus Arte DVD / DVD Box Set - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Shakespeare's Globe, the reconstruction of his most famous London theatre, is at the centre of the astonishing global fascination with Britain's greatest playwright. Completed in 1997, it is a living theatrical experiment that has allowed audiences... |
ALFRED DELLER
Portrait of a Voice - a film by Benoit Jacquot (with free CD of Shakespeare Songs) Alfred Deller [ Harmonia Mundi France / 2 DVD/CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] G : - Back in 1975 Benoit Jacquot, then a very young director met up with Alfred Deller to make this documentary-interview, which offers one of the very few filmed documents of the most famous countertenor of the modern era. |
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Phyllida Lloyd's all female Shakespeare: Julius Caesar / Henry IV / The Tempest (recorded 2012-2016) Dame Harriet Walter, and full cast [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this... |
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Shakespeare: King Lear (recorded live Strafford-Upon-Avon, 2016) Royal Shakespeare Company / Antony Sher, Natalie Simpson, Nia Gwynne, Kelly Williams / Robin Lough (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 7/Aug/2017 ] King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. |
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Shakespeare: The Globe Collection Globe / George Irving, Catherine Bailey, Clive Wood, Eve Best, John Light, Pearce Quigley, Brendan Hughes, Naomi Frederick, and many others [ Opus Arte DVD / 23 DVD Box Set - released 25/Jun/2020 ] An invitation to stand with kings in battle, to fall in love, to witness the brutal machinations of politics, and to laugh with rogues in this 23-disc collection. |
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Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, August 2013) Globe / John Light, Pearce Quigley, Michelle Terry, Luke Thompson, Matthew Tennyson / Dominic Dromgoole (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Hermia loves Lysander and Helena loves Demetrius - but Demetrius is supposed to be marrying Hermia… When the Duke of Athens tries to enforce the marriage, the lovers take refuge in the woods. |
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Shakespeare: Macbeth (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, August 2013) Globe / Joseph Millson, Samantha Spiro, Stuart Bowman, Billy Boyd / Eve Best (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his... |
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Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in October 2009) Globe Theatre / Philip Cumbus / Trystan Gravelle / William Mannering / Jack Farthing / Michelle Terry [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "With a delightful design and jaunty music it has abundant charm… Entirely enchanting" The Times |
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Shakespeare: The Tempest (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, August 2013) Globe / Roger Allam, Jason Baughan, Jessie Buckley, Sam Cox / Jeremy Herrin (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this... |
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Shakespeare: As You Like It (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in October 2009) Globe / Brendan Hughes / Naomi Frederick / Laura Rogers / Philip Bird / Jamie Parker / Jack Laskey [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Naomi Frederick's superb Rosalind is a woman of wit and intelligence… Laskey's Orlando is equally bewitched, bothered and bewildered, and the playfulness between the two is a pleasure" The Guardian |
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Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in August 2009) Globe / Andrew Vincent / Philip Cumbus / Michael O'Hagan / Atetomiwa Edun / Ellie Kendrick [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Dromgoole is blessed with a smashing pair of young lovers. Adetomiwa Edun's Romeo is fresh, cheeky, light on his feet and full of the ebullience of young love." Daily Telegraph |
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The Comedy Of Errors Globe Theatre [ Opus Arte / DVD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] Based on a farce by the Roman playwright Plautus, The Comedy of Errors is the Bard's most madcap comedy - a work full of slapstick humour and rich characterisation that centres around two sets of identical twins accidentally separated at birth.... |
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Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in 2012) Globe Theatre / Christopher Benjamin, Serena Evans, Sarah Woodward, Nathan Amzi [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] The only one of Shakespeare's plays to be set within his own class and country, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a farcical tale centring on the wily attempts of Sir John Falstaff to relieve his drinking debts through swindling and seduction. |
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Shakespeare: Great Comedies: - Twelfth Night / A Midsummer Night's Dream / The Taming of the Shrew (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London) Globe Theatre / Liam Brennan, Johnny Flynn, Stephen Fry, Paul Chahidi, Colin Hurley [ Opus Arte DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2015 ] A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare put some of his most dazzling dramatic poetry at the service of this teasing, glittering, hilarious and amazingly inventive play, whose seriousness is only fleetingly glimpsed beneath its dreamlike... |
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Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in June 2012) Globe Theatre / Liam Brennan, Johnny Flynn, Stephen Fry, Paul Chahidi, Colin Hurley [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] One of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, Twelfth Night was 'blissfully reborn' (Telegraph) for the 2012/13 season at London's Globe Theatre, under the direction of Tim Carroll. The hilarious tale of misdirection and deception is performed here by an... |
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Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (recorded live at the Globe Theatre in 2017) Globe Theatre / Marc Antolin, Tony Jayawardena, Joshua Lacey, Katy Owen, Annette McLaughlin [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/Aug/2019 ] Twins Sebastian and Viola are shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, separated and believing each other to be dead. Beside herself with grief, Viola disguises herself as a boy and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. |
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Shakespeare: Henry IV Part 2 (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in 2012) Globe Theatre / Roger Allam, Jamie Parker, Oliver Cotton, Barbara Marten [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] Dominic Dromgoole's acclaimed Olivier award-winning production is brought to its conclusion in Part 2 of Shakespeare's historical masterpiece, Henry IV - a thrilling tale of family, treachery and war that surveys the entire panorama of English life. |
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Shakespeare: Kings & Rogues: Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 / Henry VIII / Merry Wives of Windsor (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London) Globe Theatre / Roger Allam, Jamie Parker, Oliver Cotton, Barbara Marten, Dominic Rowan, Christopher Benjamin, Serena Evans, etc [ Opus Arte DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2013 ] Rebellion and maturity run through Shakespeare's histories like a single twisted thread, exemplified by the tearaway-turned-hero Hal and his forever adolescent associate Falstaff, who deserves and gets a comedy to himself in The Merry Wives of Windsor. |
