Shakespeare in Hollywood: A New PlayWinner! of the 2004 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play It's 1934, and Shakespeare's most famous fairies, Oberon and Puck, have magically materialized on the Warner Bros. Hollywood set of Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Instantly smitten by the glitz and glamour of show biz, the two are ushered onto the silver screen to play (who else?) themselves. With a little help from a feisty flower, blonde bombshells, movie moguls, and arrogant "asses" are tossed into loop |
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... that SHAKE- SPEARE IN HOLLYWOOD is subject to a royalty . It is fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America , the British Commonwealth , including Canada , and all other countries of the Copyright Union ...
... that SHAKE- SPEARE IN HOLLYWOOD is subject to a royalty . It is fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America , the British Commonwealth , including Canada , and all other countries of the Copyright Union ...
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... that master of American screwball comedy want with a classical , Shakespeare ensemble ? As Literary Manager at the RSC at the time I was a champion of poetic theatre , pursuing commissions that tended towards political epics . The imp ...
... that master of American screwball comedy want with a classical , Shakespeare ensemble ? As Literary Manager at the RSC at the time I was a champion of poetic theatre , pursuing commissions that tended towards political epics . The imp ...
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... that Ken mentioned something in passing and we both had that ' ping ' , light - bulb moment . A film I should have known about , but didn't- Max Reinhardt's 1936 movie of A Midsummer Night's Dream was even more amazing in its making than.
... that Ken mentioned something in passing and we both had that ' ping ' , light - bulb moment . A film I should have known about , but didn't- Max Reinhardt's 1936 movie of A Midsummer Night's Dream was even more amazing in its making than.
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... that its seriousness could be conveyed through an accumulation of farcical mayhem . Key to that , and what I learnt from Ken as we developed it first with the RSC ( who didn't produce it , internal political changes get- ting in the way ) ...
... that its seriousness could be conveyed through an accumulation of farcical mayhem . Key to that , and what I learnt from Ken as we developed it first with the RSC ( who didn't produce it , internal political changes get- ting in the way ) ...
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... that movies based on Shakespeare plays were " box office poison . " However , in doing research for this play , it soon became clear to me that the Shakespeare films of that time were often made because the mis- tresses or wives of the ...
... that movies based on Shakespeare plays were " box office poison . " However , in doing research for this play , it soon became clear to me that the Shakespeare films of that time were often made because the mis- tresses or wives of the ...
Common terms and phrases
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