Hugh Sullivan

Shakespeare's Richard III, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

Shakespeare's Henry V, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

Second part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

First part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.

Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

A terrified couple becomes trapped in what seems to be a replay of a sinister event that happened in their apartment in the past.

A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.