To Film Plays
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced plans to make three major films in colour in the next four years, using its own actors, directors and designers. All will be of stage productions recreated in terms of the screen.
A modem work, yet to be chosen, will be the subject of one film, and Shakespeare's “King Lear” and “Macbeth” will be the others. Paul Scofield will play the name parts in both Shakespeare films. The aim of the series is to give the oempany’s actors the chance of working in a different medium and of reaching a world audience without leaving the company. One of the company's producers, Peter Brook, recently completed a film version of the company's production of Peter Weiss’s “The Marat Sade” but this was not part of the new series. A.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31139, 16 August 1966, Page 8
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