Synopsis
Welsh language documentary to launch a series of animated Shakespeare plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream. Six of the best-loved plays have been magically realised through an unlikely alliance of Russian and Welsh animators. The collaboration survived the abortive Moscow coup of August 1991 and huge pressures on the Russian studio. Filmed mostly in Moscow, this is a tale whose twists and turns might well have appealed to Shakespeare himself.
Lenny and Will | Act Two
Pursuing his new-found enthusiasm, Lenny watches Sir Peter Hall in rehearsal for a triumphant Measure for Measure and even tries his own hand at Othello.
Digging for Britain | Shakespeare's First Theatre
Alice visits excavations at Shakespeare's first theatre in London's Shoreditch, where the Bard began his career and Romeo and Juliet was first performed.