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DVD 822.33 P6993 4 DISCS
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Mesquite Library
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DVD 822.33 P6993 4 DISCS
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On Shelf
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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.
Notes:
Title from container. 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.
Cameramen, Lisle Middleditch, Mike Paterson ; videotape editor, Graham Roberts ; music by Guy Woolfenden.
Presented by John Barton ; Royal Shakespeare Company: 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.
DVD; Dolby digital.
In English with optional English subtitles.
Contents:
- Volume 1. Episode 1, The two traditions ; Episode 2, Using the verse ; Episode 3, Language and character (ca. 148 min.)
- Volume 2. Episode 4, Exploring a character ; Episode 5, Set speeches and soliloquies (ca. 102 min.)
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- Volume 3. Episode 6, Irony and ambiguity ; Episode 7, Passion and coolness (ca. 102 min.).
- Volume 4. Episode 8, Rehearsing the text ; Episode 9, Poetry and hidden poetry (ca. 102 min.).
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