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Royal Shakespeare Company – Antony Sher | Henry IV part I

Antony Sher talks about the playing Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV Part I.

Henry IV Parts I and II play at the Royal Shakespeare Company until the 6 September 2014 and then on tour until 24 January 2015.

The productions are also being broadcast live to cinema’s worldwide on 14 May 2014 and 18 June 2014 respectively with further encore broadcasts.

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Royal Shakespeare Company – First Encounter: The Taming Of The Shrew

Meet director Michael Fentiman (and his cow), actors Katy Stephens and Forbes Masson and company stage manager Julia Wade … they’re just some of the people bringing our First Encounter: The Taming Of The Shrew production to young people in schools and theatres in England and the US.

Why are they doing this show especially for young people? Find out in the film.

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Royal Shakespeare Company – Interview with Christopher Luscombe

Director Christopher Luscombe introduces his productions of Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (also known as Much Ado About Nothing). These Shakespearean comedies will play as a double-bill in The Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Both plays will be also be broadcast live to cinemas and streamed free to schools.

They will also share a setting based on a splendid country house just before and just after the First World War, designed by Simon Higlett. Edward Bennett and Michelle Terry will play the lovers in both productions.

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Theatre for a New Audience: Michael Pennington: Our King Lear

Meet Michael Pennington, two-time Olivier Award nominee, one of England’s finest classical actors, and our King Lear. Here, he discusses the themes of the play; why he enjoys performing on the Scripps Mainstage; and director Arin Arbus’ perception of the play.

KING LEAR
by William Shakespeare
Featuring Michael Pennington in a company of 22 actors
Direction: Arin Arbus

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Theatre for a New Audience: Michael Pennington: Extended KING LEAR Interview

We sat down with two-time Olivier Award nominee Michael Pennington, our King Lear, to discuss the production in this extended interview.

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Globe On Screen: Introduction by Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director

An introduction by Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, to the Globe On Screen season.

From September 2012, Globe On Screen brings three of the critically acclamined 2011 theatre season productions to cinemas across the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand.

Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well (UK/AUS/NZ 26 September, USA October 11) and Much Ado About Nothing (UK/AUS/NZ 10 October, USA October 23), and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (UK/AUS/NZ 26 October, USA November 8) will be shown in their entirety.

To find a venue near you and book tickets, visit http://onscreen.shakespearesglobe.com.

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Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Audience Responses to Henry IV Part 1 (2010)

Find out what our audience thought of Henry IV Part 1, now playing at Shakespeare’s Globe as part of our 2010 Kings and Rigues season. Directed by Dominic Dromgoole, with Jamie Parker as Prince Hal and Roger Allam as Falstaff.

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Shakespeare’s Globe: Henry V directed by Dominic Dromgoole

Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry’s campaign to recapture the English possessions in France. But the ambitions of this charismatic king are challenged by a host of vivid characters caught up in the real horrors of war.

Henry V, which opened the new Globe with the words ‘O for a muse of fire’, celebrates the power of language to summon into life courts, pubs, ships and battlefields within the ‘wooden O’ – and beyond.

Much loved for his performance as Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (2010), Jamie Parker returns to Hal’s journey as Henry V. Other credits included The History Boys at the National Theatre, on Broadway and on film.

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Allen Ginsberg’s Short Course on “The Tempest” (1980), Class 2 (of 4)

“Like so many great poets, Allen Ginsberg composed extemporaneously as he spoke, in erudite paragraphs, reciting lines and whole poems from memory—in his case, usually the poems of William Blake.

In the audio lectures here, from August 1980, Ginsberg teaches a four-part course on Shakespeare’s The Tempest (parts one and two above, three and four below), a play he often returned to for reference in his own work.”

Source: Openculture.com

Class two:

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Class 3: Allen Ginsberg’s Short Course on The Tempest (1980)

“Like so many great poets, Allen Ginsberg composed extemporaneously as he spoke, in erudite paragraphs, reciting lines and whole poems from memory—in his case, usually the poems of William Blake.

In the audio lectures here, from August 1980, Ginsberg teaches a four-part course on Shakespeare’s The Tempest (parts one and two above, three and four below), a play he often returned to for reference in his own work.”

Source: Openculture.com

Class three:

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