Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - The Winters Tale
Exquisitely sculpted and lifelike puppets perform this touching tale of rage, remorse and forgiveness. The King's fit of temper results in the death of his wife Hermione and his young son, and his baby daughter Perdita is banished. Sixteen years lat...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Hamlet
All animation techniques are painstaking, but that of painting on glass is especially so. This unusual medium succeeds impressively in capturing the ghostly presence of Hamlet's father and the agonized indecision of Hamlet himself, in this classic d...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - King Richard lll
The richly rewarding technique of painting on glass has been uniquely explored for this blackest of black comedies. No compassion is shown by the hunchback King Richard, whose unquenchable thirst for power destroys his wife, his brother, his best fr...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Macbeth
The all-enveloping evil of Shakespeare's bloodiest work is captured with arresting and graphic intensity by powerful cel animation. Awash with murder, madness and dark forces, it is easy to understand the superstition that causes those in the theatr...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - A Midsummer Night's Dream
An animated adaptation of the play A midsummer night's dream, by William Shakespeare. Therein, a group of lovers have a series of comical adventures after several of them are enchanted by a magical elixir. The beauty of cel animation is that it can ...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Romeo and Juliet
The world's best-known love story. Rich cel animation captures the tension and romance felt by two young citizens of Verona, oppressed by family rivalries, yet bound by an all-consuming love. The contrasts between raging passions and tender moments ...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - The Taming of the Shrew
Love blows hot and cold for the impulsive couple Petruchio and Kate. Convincing puppet animation catches the mood of their stormy relationship in a play that uses comic twists and turns to chart the often surprising course of a powerful love affair.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Othello
The warmth of a Mediterranean setting contrasts with the coldness in Iago's heart, as he relentlessly turns his noble master, Othello, against the beautiful and innocent Desdemona. All the emotional intensity of Shakespeare's study of jealousy is co...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales -The Tempest
A marvelous and terrifying island, peopled by spirits and monsters, is the ideal setting for demonstrating how puppets can become extraordinarily convincing "actors". Caliban becomes an almost "human" monster and Prospero's magic brings the spirit A...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - As You Like It
A comic tale of love-tom youth, with the Forest of Arden as its sylvan stage. The idyllic backgrounds and wistful moods of Rosalind and Celia are sympathetically created by the unusual and visually appealing medium of painting in oils on cels.