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March 2016
Korol Lir (Dir. Grigori Kozintsev, Russia, 1971)
This Soviet era film based on Shakespeare’s King Lear follows the lives of King Lear and his courtier Gloucester, documenting the madness and tragedy which befall them.
Find out more »TAMU Performance Studies Presents Wittenberg
Set at Hamlet’s alma mater, Wittenberg University, the play is a “tragical-comedical-historical” take on what it means to grow up and speak up.
Find out more »Haider (Dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, India, 2014)
Haider is an Indian crime drama serving as a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, set amidst the Kashmir insurgencies of 1995.
Find out more »Austin Shakespeare Presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy in which four young lovers flee the adult world to the forest where they are enchanted by the King and Queen of the Fairies.
Find out more »April 2016
Hidden Room Theatre Presents Der Bestrafte Brudermord, Or Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
A humorous retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with puppets, the text of Der Bestrafte Brudermord (Fratricide Revenged) dates to an anonymous 1710 German manuscript.
Find out more »Present Company Presents Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Austin’s Present Company will mount a 7-actor production of Hamlet based on the text from the First Folio.
Find out more »O (Dir. Tim Blake Nelson, US, 2001)
Featuring Julia Stiles, this modern adaptation of Othello is set in an upper class prep school and is centered on drama surrounding star basketball player Odin.
Find out more »Shakespeare Behind Bars (Dir. Hank Rogerson, US, 2005)
This documentary follows 20 male inmates in a Kentucky prison on their nine month process of bringing Shakespeare’s The Tempest to performance.
Find out more »Were the World Mine (Dir. Tom Gustafson, US, 2008)
Inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a bullied and demoralized gay student at an all-boys school uses a magical flower to turn many in his community gay, to let them take a walk in his shoes.
Find out more »May 2016
Chimes at Midnight (Dir. Orson Welles, US, 1966)
The film’s plot centers on Shakespeare’s recurring character Falstaff and his father-son relationship with Prince Hal.
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