English Theater in the USSR

Views of Stratford-on-Avon in the UK. The building of the Shakespeare Memorial Theater. Arrival of the train with the artists of the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at the Leningrad railway station. Press conference at the Department of Culture of the Leningrad City Executive Committee, at which the director of the English theater Glen Byam Shaw and the chairman of the Board of Trustees Fordham Flower talk about the history of the Shakespeare theater. British actors visit the Bakhrushin State Theater Museum in Moscow. Meeting of the actors of the Shakespeare Memorial Theater with the actors of the Moscow Art Theater; the People's Artist of the USSR MN Kedrov and the director of the Shakespeare Theater Donell are performing. Fragments from the performances "Hamlet", "Twelfth Night", "Romeo and Juliet" on the stage of the Moscow Art Academic Theater performed by English actors. The audience is applauding in the hall. Actors make up before the performance.

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1959