Terence McGinity

Othello (1981)

Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. Venice needs ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonathan Miller
CAST:  Anthony Hopkins  •  Anthony Pedley  •  Bob Hoskins  •  Geoffrey Chater

Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. Venice needs ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonathan Miller
CAST:  Anthony Hopkins  •  Anthony Pedley  •  Bob Hoskins  •  Geoffrey Chater

Hamlet (1980)

Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rodney Bennett
CAST:  Derek Jacobi  •  Claire Bloom  •  Patrick Stewart  •  Eric Porter

Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rodney Bennett
CAST:  Derek Jacobi  •  Claire Bloom  •  Patrick Stewart  •  Eric Porter

Cymbeline (1982)

Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elijah Moshinsky
CAST:  Richard Johnson  •  Michael Pennington  •  Claire Bloom  •  Robert Lindsay

Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elijah Moshinsky
CAST:  Richard Johnson  •  Michael Pennington  •  Claire Bloom  •  Robert Lindsay

Timon of Athens (1981)

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonathan Miller
CAST:  Jonathan Pryce  •  Norman Rodway  •  John Shrapnel  •  Geoffrey Collins

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonathan Miller
CAST:  Jonathan Pryce  •  Norman Rodway  •  John Shrapnel  •  Geoffrey Collins