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Muse of Fire (2013)
Directed by Dan Poole, Giles Terera
Overview
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Together they have directed and produced an inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare’s work for everyone: from actors, directors and students of all disciplines, right through to the? man on the street? Denmark with Jude Law, Baz Luhrmann in Hollywood, Prison in Berlin, and on the street with Mark Rylance. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again!
Length 83 minutes
Actors
Steven Berkoff | Derek Jacobi | Ian McKellen | Christopher Eccleston | Ben Kingsley | Ewan McGregor | Alan Rickman | John Hurt | Judi Dench | Ralph Fiennes | Michael Gambon | Jude Law | Alan Cumming | Toby Stephens | Fiona Shaw | James Earl Jones | Helen McCrory | Julie Taymor | Jeremy Irons | Dominic West | Zoë Wanamaker | Mark Rylance | Frances Barber | Simon Russell Beale | Melvyn Bragg | Tom Hiddleston | Rory Kinnear | Dan Poole | Jaime Murray