ABC [Australia] | Television Shakespeare Plays 1959-1974
Television Shakespeare plays produced by ABC [Australia], 1959-1974.
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- DirectorChristopher MuirStarsKeith EdenBettine KauffmannKevin MilesAfter the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor - Octavius.
- DirectorRaymond MenmuirStarsRic HuttonRichard ParryHugh StewartThe incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.
- DirectorAlan BurkeStarsJohn UnicombOwen WeingottTanya Halesworth
- DirectorAlan BurkeStarsRon HaddrickBrigid LenihanNoel Brophy
- DirectorAlan BurkeStarsMax OldakerJoan MorrowReg Livermore
- DirectorPatrick BartonStarsRaymond WestwellKeith LeeFrances McDonaldThe Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- DirectorWilliam SterlingStarsKen GoodletDinah ShearingKeith EdenThree witches tell the Scottish general Macbeth that he will be King of Scotland. Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth kills the king, becomes the new king. Civil war erupts to overthrow Macbeth, resulting in more death.
- DirectorAlan BurkeStarsWyn RobertsTerri AldredKeith EdenThis is a different production teams' take on the 1960 Australian version using some of the same cast.
- DirectorKen HannamStarsRoger ClimpsonHelen MorseJudith FisherViola and her twin brother Sebastian have been shipwrecked; each believes the other to be drowned. Viola disguises herself as a young man and, under the name of Cesario, gets a job as a servant for the Duke, Orsino.
- DirectorRobin LovejoyStarsJohn BellCarol MacReadyRon HaddrickUpdated version of Shakespeare's play, set in the Australian outback.