Blu-ray
Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Sam Alexande (King of Navarre); Peter Basham (Butler); William Belchambers (Longaville); Edward Bennett (Berowne); Nick Haverson (Costard); Emma Manton (Jaquenetta); John Hodgkinson (Don Armado); Tunji Kasim (Dumaine); Sophie Khan Levy (Housemaid); Oliver Lynes (Footman); Chris McCalphy (Dull); Peter McGovern (Moth);
"This is the most blissfully entertaining and emotionally involving RSC offering I’ve seen in ages." (The Daily Telegraph ★★★★★)
Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare's Globe)
Philip Cumbus (King of Navarre); Trystan Gravelle (Berowne); William Mannering (Longaville); Jack Farthing (Dumaine); Michelle Terry (Princess of France);
"Dominic Dromgooles zestful production succeeds in captivating the audience to a degree that I would not have thought possible...Its a treat" (The Independent)
Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Won (or Much Ado About Nothing) (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Sam Alexander (Don John ); David Horovitch (Leonato); Edward Bennett (Benedick); Michelle Terry (Beatrice); Tunji Kasim (Claudio); Chris Nayak (Borachio); Flora Spencer-Longhurst (Hero); Nick Haverson (Dogberry); Emma Manton (Margeret); Chris McCalphy (Sexton); Frances McNamee (Ursula); Chris Nayak (Borachio);
"This is the most blissfully entertaining and emotionally involving RSC offering I’ve seen in ages." (The Daily Telegraph ★★★★★)
Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Special Edition (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Sam Alexander (King of Navarre/Don John); Peter Basham (Gamekeeper); William Belchambers (Longaville); Edward Bennett (Berowne/Benedick); Michelle Terry (Beatrice); Nick Haverson (Costard/Dogberry); Emma Manton (Jaquenetta); John Hodgkinson (Don Armado); Tunji Kasim (Claudio/Dumaine); Flora Spencer-Longhurst (Hero);
"This is the most blissfully entertaining and emotionally involving RSC offering I’ve seen in ages." (The Daily Telegraph ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Othello (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Hugh Quarshie (Othello); Lucian Msamati (Iago); Joanna Vanderham (Desdemona); Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (Cassio); Ayesha Dharker (Emilia); James Corrigan (Roderigo); Scarlett Brookes (Bianca); Brian Protheroe (Brabantio); Nadia Albina (Duke of Venice); David Ajao (Montano); Tim Samuels (Lodovico); Gwilym Lloyd (Gratiano);
"Iqbal Khan’s gripping production has already made history by being the first at Stratford to cast a black actor as Iago. But I had not anticipated how many fascinating ideas such an imaginative piece of casting would provoke. Hugh Quarshie is an excellent Othello... Guardian" (The Guardian ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Richard II (Royal Shakespeare Company)
David Tennant (Richard II); Michael Pennington (John of Gaunt); Jane Lapotaire (Duchess of Gloucester); Oliver Ford Davies (Duke of York); Oliver Rix (Aumerle); Nigel Lindsay (Bolingbroke); Emma Hamilton (The Queen); Nigel Lindsay (Henry Bolingbroke); Marty Cruickshank (Duchess of York); Sam Marks (Bushy); Jake Mann (Bagot); Marcus Griffiths (Greene);
"A definitive production of a great play and well worth catching when it is broadcast live to cinemas." (The Daily Mail ★★★★★)