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  • Macbeth [1978]Macbeth | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £10.52   |  Saving you £-4.53 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

    Trevor Nunn's interpretation of the classic Shakespearian drama starring Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Judi Dench.

  • The Comedy of Errors [DVD]The Comedy of Errors | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £7.09   |  Saving you £5.90 (83.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

    A star cast including Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Roger Rees, Francesca Annis and Nickolas Grace features in a joyfully exuberant Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of Shakespeare s best-loved comedies. Conceived by Trevor Nunn, this musical presentation at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is a carefree romp in which collapsing chairs, squirting soda siphons, funky wigs, uncompromising couplets and outrageous puns abound. The production features music by composer Guy Woolfenden, who received an Olivier Award for Best New Musical for the show s London production, and dance routines by world-renowned choreographer Gillian Lynne; Francesca Annis won a BAFTA award for her role as Luciana. The play itself is a comedy of mistaken identities involving two sets of twins. With their twin servants, they are separated in a shipwreck and thrown together by chance, and the plot twists and turns in total confusion!

  • The Man in Room 17 - The Complete Series 1 [DVD]The Man in Room 17 - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (17/06/2013) from £24.92   |  Saving you £15.07 (60.47%)   |  RRP £39.99

    A sly sideways look at the standard '60s police procedural The Man in Room 17 concerns the ponderings of Oldenshaw and Dimmock - two exceptionally clever chaps whose minds are so highly trained that they can solve cases that leave the ordinary authorities baffled. Created by novelist and playwright Robin Chapman (from a concept by Granada supremo Denis Forman) each episode was essentially constructed as a game of two halves with the Room scenes for each episode being solely written by Chapman - who would receive a script and then deconstruct it plan where Oldenshaw and Dimmock's scenes were to appear and how the crime was to be solved.

  • The Thames Shakespeare Collection [DVD]The Thames Shakespeare Collection | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    This collection features superlative television productions of four of Shakespeare's best-loved plays. Featuring electrifying performances from some of Britain's most accomplished actors and leading RSC players, these productions bring Shakepeare's work vividly and faithfully to life. MACBETH Ian McKellen and Judi Dench lead the RSC cast in Trevor Nunn's stunning production of Shakespeare's tale of a Scottish general whose hunger for kingship leads to a reign of terror. ROMEO & JULIET Joan Kemp-Welch directs Christoper Neame and Ann Hasson in a BAFTA-nominated adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of young lovers destroyed by a feud between two families. TWELFTH NIGHT Richard Briers and Frances Barber lead the Renaissance Theatre Company in this much-loved comedy of mistaken identity and unrequited desire, staged to huge acclaim by Kenneth Branagh. KING LEAR Patrick Magee gives a tour de force performance as the elderly king who descends into madness after disposing of his estate between his treacherous daughters Regan and Goneril.

  • The Muppet Show - Series 2The Muppet Show - Series 2 | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £10.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (181.98%)   |  RRP £30.99

    Kermit the Frog is the manager of a cabaret-style theatre house which invariably has more drama behind the stage than actually on it! He has to contend with wannabe-comedian bears the smothering advances of Miss Piggy crabby regular theatre patrons homicidal chefs livestock not to mention making the weekly guest star feel welcome.

  • New Scotland Yard: The Complete Fourth Series [DVD]New Scotland Yard: The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (07/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    The crime-busters of New Scotland Yard return with a new line-up for this fourth and final series of London Weekend's groundbreaking early-seventies police drama.Though Kingdom and Ward are replaced by DCS Clay and DS Dexter, the series remains as hard-hitting as ever in its portrayal of CID work in the increasingly violent London of the 1970s. Their cases include the murder of a Borstal boy, the organised hi-jacking of lorries, and a recently released armed robber's relentless quest for revenge. Featuring hard-hitting scripts from P.J. Hammond and contributor Tony Hoare, guest stars include Don Henderson, Michael Elphick, Ray Lonnen and Tony Caunter.

  • The Shakespeare Collection - Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, Twelfth Night [DVD]The Shakespeare Collection - Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, Twelfth Night | DVD | (16/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    Some of the finest actors in a generation perform 4 of the bard's greatest plays in specially filmed adaptations by the Royal Shakespeare Company for Thames Television.MacbethTrevor Nunn's highly acclaimed production of the classic tale of the Scots nobleman whose ambition, spurred on by his alluring wife and an evil prophecy, leads him to treachery, murder and damnation. Starring Sir Ian Mckellen and Judi Dench together with the original RSC cast.Romeo & JulietThe Montagues and Capulets are bitter enemies, sworn to hatred. Yet when their children Romeo (Christopher Neame) and Juliet (Ann Hasson) fall in love, their happiness is doomed to failure in this brilliant interpretation of the classic tale of love and loss.Twelfth NightPerforming one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, the Renaissance Theatre Company, starring Richard Briers and directed by Kenneth Branagh, deliver one of the most highly acclaimed adaptations of all time.King LearShakespeare's tragic masterpiece is brought to life in this superb production starring Patrick Magee as the titular king who descends to madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery.

  • Within These Walls - Series 2 [1975]Within These Walls - Series 2 | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £13.98   |  Saving you £18.00 (150.12%)   |  RRP £29.99

    Within These Walls offered an authentic portrayal of day-to-day prison life as well as the progress of the penal system reflecting the shift from a Victorian ethos of punishment to an emphasis upon rehabilitation. Focussing on the trials of a newly appointed governor and her attempts to liberalise the regime of Stone Park H.M. Prison for women Within These Walls was a huge success for LWT and would set the template for later series such as Prisoner: Cell Block H and Bad Girls; the series is still fondly remembered more than 30 years after its original screening. Googie Withers (The Lady Vanishes) stars as the principled and compassionate prison governor Faye Boswell whose task is to understand and help the women who find themselves in the closed world of Stone Park. With strong writing and direction Within These Walls remains a high point of British television drama. The third episode of this series - Nowhere for the Kids - no longer exists in any format but its script is included in PDF format on Disc One as a special feature.

  • Within These Walls - Series 3 [DVD] [1975]Within These Walls - Series 3 | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £13.98   |  Saving you £18.00 (150.13%)   |  RRP £29.99

    Within These Walls: Series 3 Box Set (4 Discs)

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