Antony Sher

Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.

Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decriminalisation. It features interviews with leading figures from right across the arts in Britain, including Stephen Fry, David Hockney, Sir Antony Sher, Alan Cumming, Sandi Toksvig, Jeanette Winterson, Will Young and Alan Hollinghurst, and it explores the distinctive perspectives and voices that LGBT artists have brought to British cultural life.

King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. Misjudging his children’s loyalty and finding himself alone in the wilderness, he is left to confront the mistakes of a life that has brought him to this point. Antony Sher plays King Lear, one of the greatest parts written by Shakespeare in this, one of Shakespeare’s most epic and powerful plays.

Desde el escenario del Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate e invitados marcan la vida de William Shakespeare en el 400 aniversario de la muerte del dramaturgo.

As Man Booker Prize-winning writer Howard Jacobson retells The Merchant of Venice, 400 years after Shakespeare’s death, he travels with Alan Yentob to the ghetto in Venice to explore Shakespeare's most performed play - and in particular the character of the most divisive fictional Jew in history, Shylock. On their journey, Howard and Alan examine the evidence behind the charge of antisemitism against Shakespeare. How did his old Jew from Venice become such a useful propaganda tool during the Third Reich, and what was behind the absurd and infamous proposal to cut off a 'pound of flesh'?

Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat.

King Henry's health is failing as a second rebellion against his reign threatens to surface. Intent on securing his legacy, he is uncertain that his son Hal is a worthy heir, believing him more concerned with earthly pleasures than the responsibility of rule. Sir John Falstaff is sent to the country side to recruit fresh troops. Amongst the unwitting locals opportunities for embezzlement and profiteering prove impossible to resist - as the king's health continues to worsen, Hal must choose between duty, and loyalty to an old friend.

With his crown under threat from enemies both foreign and domestic, Henry IV prepares for war. Having deposed the previous king, he is only too aware how tenuous his position is, and the price to be paid if he falters.

Tras sobrevivir al inicio de su inesperado viaje, la Compañía sigue hacia el este y se encuentra por el camino con Beorn, el cambiador de piel, y con un enjambre de Arañas gigantes en el peligroso monte Mirkwood. Tras evitar que los Elfos del Bosque los capturen, los Enanos prosiguen su viaje hacia Ciudad del Lago, y finalmente llegan a la Montaña Solitaria, donde tienen que enfrentarse al mayor de los peligros, una criatura más terrorífica que cualquier otra que pondrá a prueba no solo lo profundo de su valentía sino también los límites de su amistad y la sabiduría del viaje: el dragón Smaug.

Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of South Africa's apartheid system for the entire world to see. Interviews with Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Yvonne Bryceland and others help to illuminate Fugard's remarkable legacy.

In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.

The life of Charles Dickens recreated using puppets, live action and animation. An experimental visualisation by Chris Newby of a pre-recorded radio drama written by Michael Eaton and directed by Jeremy Mortimer.

La infancia de Lawrence Talbot se acabó bruscamente la noche que murió su madre. Se marchó de su pueblo, Blackmoor, y tardó décadas en recuperarse e intentar olvidar. Cuando Gwen Conliffe, la prometida de su hermano, le encuentra y le ruega que la ayude a buscar a su amor, que se encuentra desaparecido, Lawrence Talbot regresa a casa. Entonces se entera de que algo brutal, salvaje, con una sed insaciable de sangre ha matado a muchos campesinos. Empieza a encajar las piezas del sangriento rompecabezas y descubre que existe una antigua maldición que convierte a las víctimas en hombres lobo las noches de luna llena. Para acabar con la carnicería y proteger a la mujer de la que se ha enamorado, Lawrence Talbot debe destruir a la temible criatura que se esconde en los bosques cercanos a Blackmoor. Este hombre sencillo con un pasado doloroso sale en busca de la bestia y descubre que él también tiene un lado primitivo que ni siquiera podía imaginar.

Sigue la historia de un conductor de metro que, tras dos accidentes en los que mató a personas, recibe la noticia de que si mata a una tercera será retirado de su puesto con una pensión vitalicia.

PRIMO was adapted by Antony Sher from Primo Levi's monumental account of his year spent in Auschwitz, IF THIS IS A MAN. When it opened in September 2004 at the National Theatre PRIMO was instantly recognised as a major theatrical event. A work of astounding dramatic power it sheds a light on one of the darkest episodes in human history. Antony Sher's towering performance is as controlled as Primo Levi s own lucid prose. Beautifully directed by Richard Wilson and presented in Hildegard Bechtler's magnificent, symbolist set.

Unos cineastas americanos llegan al Reino Unido a filmar una película sobre Winston Churchill, el gran Primer Ministro que ganó la guerra a los nazis. Pero cuando van a rodar deciden cambiar al escuálido actor que interpretará a Churchill por otro más atractivo y viril. (FILMAFFINITY)

The ostensibly calm and courteous Gerald Ballantyne lives in and embodies modern suburbia. But he is haunted by the memory of a recent car crash and hounded by his estranged wife and her demands for divorce. Slowly, a festering insanity takes over and unwilling to face the outside world he embarks on a lunatic experiment. Confining himself to his middle-class home, he eschews contact with others and survives entirely off 'food' which he can find in his house. Based on JG Ballard's The Enormous Space.

Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter star in a highly-acclaimed screen version of William Shakespeare's classic story of tyranny and ambition. On the stage this Royal Shakespeare Company presentation was universally lauded. Following sell-out seasons at Statford's Swan Theatre and in London, the production played Japan and in the United States, where The New York Times praised director Gregory Doran's interpretation as a "harrowing and disturbingly funny parable for the dawn of the 21st century". To make this compelling screen version, Gregory Doran worked with all of the original cast and filmed at London's Roundhouse. Brilliantly shot by director of photography Ernie Vincze, the production uses the edgy techniques of fly-on-the-wall documentaries. The effect is raw, intimate and strikingly dynamic.

Año 90 de la dominación romana en Israel. Jairo llega con su hija enferma Tamar a Séforis, una pequeña población de Galilea. Los médicos no acaban de saber cómo curar su mal, pero la chica se fija en Jesús, un joven carpintero que tendrá una intervención decisiva en su vida.

William Shakespeare's play as performed by the Barbican Theater in 1999.

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Londres, 1593, reinado de Isabel I Tudor. William Shakespeare, joven dramaturgo de gran talento, necesita urgentemente poner fin a la mala racha por la que está pasando su carrera. Por mucho que lo intenta, y a pesar de la presión de los productores y de los dueños de salas de teatro, no consigue concentrarse en su nueva obra: "Romeo y Ethel, la hija del pirata". Lo que Will necesita es una musa y la encontrará en la bella Lady Viola, con la que mantiene un romance secreto. Ahora bien, Lady Viola guarda dos secretos que él debe descubrir.

Desolada tras la muerte de su marido el Príncipe Alberto, la Reina Victoria (1837-1901) encuentra consuelo en el leal caballero escocés John Brown, con el que mantendrá una relación amistosa por encima de las barreras protocolarias.

Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective novel ever written. The Moonstone, a sacred Hindu diamond was stolen from the head of the Moon God, in its shrine by John Herncastle in 1799. The stone is said to be cursed if it is removed from the shrine. In 1848, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her, in order that she might wear it. Inevitably, the jewel is found missing the next morning and Rachel believes Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue the real truth behind the theft.

A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.

Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.

Graham Young is a teenage misfit living in suburban London in the 1960s. He hates his stepmother but loves chemistry, and the two impulses unite in a wicked plot to slowly poison her. After she dies, he's found guilty and sent to a psychiatric hospital, where an idealistic doctor thinks he can be cured.

In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap.

Joseph Mnwana arrives at Heathrow on a flight from Johannesburg and asks for political asylum. But what is he fleeing from? The authorities are suspicious, and Joseph has an uncertain future in store.

Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.

Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.

Erik el Vikingo (Tim Robbins) está cansado de los saqueos, las violaciones y de los cielos grises. Decide entonces reunir guerreros de su pueblo y todos embarcan en un viaje peligroso a Valhalla, para pedir los dioses que acaben con la Edad de Ragnorok y que dejen a su gente ver la luz del sol otra vez. Del director de las comedias del grupo Monty Python.

A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.

Royal Shakespeare Company's televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

Tres criminales, procedentes del planeta Krypton, a los que el padre de Superman condenó a vagar por el espacio, eluden su condena y se dirigen a la Tierra para enfrentarse a Superman, en una batalla cósmica por la supremacía sobre el planeta. Al mismo tiempo, el superhéroe continúa ocultando su identidad tras la tímida personalidad del reportero Clark Kent, aunque su novia Lois Lane comienza a sospechar algo.

A principios de 1942, mientras los aliados se preparan para el Desembarco de Normandía, miles de soldados yanquis son enviados a Inglaterra. En la vida de tres de ellos juegan un papel importante tres mujeres: Helen, una madre de mentalidad tradicional que trabaja como voluntaria de la Cruz Roja, Mollie, conductora de autobús y gran admiradora de los estadounidenses, y Jen, la hija del jefe de los tenderos locales, una joven de frágil sensibilidad que está enamorada del soldado Matt.

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

"This could be a bit special, Maggie. This could be the first case of an office block falling down during the topping-out party." A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.