James Cooney
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RSC Live: Henry VI, Part I
Overview: Henry VI: Part One Filmed as a rehearsal run through performance during the Covid 19 pandemic, Henry VI: Part One introduces us to a young and reclusive Henry, who is proclaimed King of England after the death of his father, Henry V. Directed by Gregory Doran and Owen Horsley.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-26
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RSC Live: Cymbeline
Overview: Britain is in crisis. An ineffectual Queen Cymbeline rules over a divided dystopian Britain. Consumed with grief at the death of two of her children, Cymbeline's judgment is clouded. When Innogen, the only living heir, marries her sweetheart Posthumus in secret, an enraged Cymbeline banishes him. Behind the throne, a power-hungry figure plots to seize power by murdering them both. In exile Innogen's husband is tricked into believing she has been unfaithful to him and in an act of impulsive jealousy begins a scheme to have her murdered. Warned of the danger, Innogen runs away from court in disguise and begins a journey fraught with danger that will eventually reunite Cymbeline with a long-lost heir and reconcile the young lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-31
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RSC Live: Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. Hamlet played in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until throughout summer 2016.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-10
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Strangeways Here We Come
Overview: A comedy in which the tenants of a high rise work together to defeat a cruel loan shark.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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RSC Live: The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Live from Stratford-upon-Avon. The Royal Shakespeare Company presents The Taming of the Shrew. Turning Shakespeare’s fierce, energetic comedy of gender and materialism on its head to offer a fresh perspective on its portrayal of hierarchy and power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-05
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RSC Live: Measure for Measure
Overview: Live from Stratford-upon-Avon. The Royal Shakespeare Company presents Measure for Measure.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-31
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RSC Live: King Lear
Overview: King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. Misjudging his children’s loyalty and finding himself alone in the wilderness, he is left to confront the mistakes of a life that has brought him to this point. Antony Sher plays King Lear, one of the greatest parts written by Shakespeare in this, one of Shakespeare’s most epic and powerful plays.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-12
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