Title:
Playing Shakespeare / written by John Barton ; director, John Carlaw ; producer, Andrew Snell ; LWT.
ISBN:
9781598282214
Edition:
Standard format (1.33:first).
Publication Information:
Silver Spring, MD : Athena, [2009]
Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media
©2009
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (approximately 456 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm)
General 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.
DVD; Dolby digital.
Contents:
disc 1 (ca. 148 min.). 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.
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.
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Electronic Access:
Publisher's website for the box set http://www.athenalearning.com/programs/playing-shakespeare/description-and-videos
Language Note:
In English.
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.
Production Credits:
Cameramen, Lisle Middleditch, Mike Paterson ; videotape editor, Graham Roberts ; music by Guy Woolfenden.
OCLC Number:
ocn369276043
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
