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Jonathan Miller, Ian Talbot and Peter Brook talk about about the representation of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream. With footage from Brook's 1970 staging of the play.
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Rights Statement: Rights owned or controlled by The Open University
Restrictions on use: Permission to use the excerpt from A Midsummer Nights Dream in this clip has been granted for OUDA by BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Duration: 00:06:54
Keyword(s): Shakespeare, theatre, performance
Contributor(s): Murray Carrington; Toyah Wilcox; Robert Land; Harriet Thorpe; Vivien Leigh; Jonathan Miller; Helen Mirren
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Footage description: Theatre production stills from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Murray Carrington as Oberon. Fairies. Group of fairies with detail of boots and shovel. Men/women in fairy costumes. Toyah Wilcox as Puck. Robert Land as Bottom and Harriet Thorpe as Titania. Toyah Wilcox as Puck. Fairy's legs in knee highs holding a bucket. Fairy and tree. Fairies. Regent Park Open Air Theatre: Vox Pops. Members of the audience speaking about fairies: elderly man, elderly woman, young woman, young man, middle aged man. Shot of the audience taking their seats panning to stage. Black and white still of Vivien Leigh as Titania. Jonathan Miller speaking, seated, interspersed with black and white still of actors in elaborate fairy costumes. Footage of Helen Mirren as Titania in BBC production from 1981. Rachel Kavanaugh speaking from the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre with stage behind her. Still of Toyah Wilcox as Puck. Regent Park Open Air Theatre: Vox Pops. Members of the audience speaking about fairies: young man, middle aged man, middle aged couple. Tony Gash speaking, seated on the open air stage. Footage from Peter Brook’s 1970 RSC's performance of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” with voice over from Penny Rixon: Actor on stage alone dressed in white. Actor (Puck) appears on stilts. Actor (Bottom) dressed in string vest, hat and ears dancing on stage. Actress (Titania) dressed in green robes standing up from her bed watches Bottom dancing. Puck on stilts and actor in white moving about the stage. Peter Brook speaking. Footage from Peter Brook’s 1970 RSC's performance of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” with voice over by Jonathan Miller: Four actors swinging whirly tubes to create a noise. Puck lowers down to stage on a trapeze. Actors gather round him speaking. Jonathan Miller speaking sitting at a table covered in theatre props. Footage from Peter Brook’s 1970 RSC's performance of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” with voice over from Penny Rixon then Peter Brook: Two actors on trapezes. One spinning a plate on a stick passes it to the second actor. Actor (Oberon) with Puck casting the love spell on sleeping Titania. Titania raised up on her bed. Actress (Hermia) dressed in white, shouting and running about the stage between moving metal spirals hanging from the ceiling. Oberon standing up swinging on a trapeze.
Master programe code and title: AA306/VCR2 Staging dreams
Master programme first presentation: 2000
Master programe filename: AA306_2000X_BX_V002.avi
Master programme production number: FOUA566B
Available to public: yes