蜜芽传媒

11 August 2020

Theatres may be closed, but cultural organisations are opening their archives as never before. and are among those sharing their back-catalogue of Shakespeare productions to view online for a limited period.

What if your first love was someone you'd been told to hate? Ripped apart by the bitter divisions of their parents, two young people risk everything to be together. Erica Whyman directs Karen Fishwick and Bally Gill in this 2018 production.

Returning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the path to murder. Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in Polly Findlay's 2018 production of Shakespeare's darkest psychological thriller.

In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. Racial tensions boil over when a despised outsider looks to exact the ultimate price for a contract sealed in blood. Polly Findlay directs Makram J. Khoury as Shylock, Patsy Ferran as Portia and Jamie Ballard as Antonio in her 2015 production.

Othello is the greatest general of his age, but he has enemies plotting in the shadows. He realises too late that his greatest danger is his destructive pride. Hugh Quarshie stars as Othello, with Joanna Vanderham as Desdemona and Lucian Msamati as Iago, in Iqbal Khan's 2015 production.

Sent by the ghost of his father to avenge his brutal death, Hamlet's mission to expose the truth is a perilous journey of madness, murder and lost love. Paapa Essiedu takes the starring role in Simon Godwin's 2016 production.

Beatrice and Benedick despise love, but their friends have a plan to bring them together. Christopher Luscombe directs this 2014 production.

In the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war. A classic Shakespeare play adapted for television by Russell T Davies.

An adaptation which fuses music, dance and comedy. This is the final performance of a production which has wowed critics and played to sold-out audiences.

With a spirit of the supernatural, The Tempest is a story of forgiveness, generosity and enlightenments set on a remote and mysterious desert island.