Peter Capaldi To Feature In The Complete Shakespeare Walk

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Is this a Doctor which I see before me? Peter Capaldi is to feature in a special series of films marking 400 years since William Shakespeare’s death.

The Complete Walk has been organised by Shakespeare’s Globe, the theatre complex based on London’s southbank and the location of the 2007’s The Shakespeare Code. The Walk – held over the spring weekend of 23 – 24 April – will feature a series on short films, shown on 37 screens, along a 2.5-mile route on the Thames embankment between Westminster and Tower Bridge.

Each screen will show a 10-minute film based on one of Shakespeare’s plays, each shot in a location with particular historical and narrative significance to the play. Capaldi will play the general Titus Andronicus in scenes specially shot in Rome.

Other films will include Cleopatra in front of the Pyramids, Shylock in Venice’s Jewish ghetto, Hamlet on the rocks of Elsinore, Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace and Richard II in Westminster Hall – as well as other Doctor Who alumni giving readings, including, amongst others, Lindsay Duncan in All’s Well That Ends Well, filmed in Roussillon; and Meera Syal as Lucetta in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

After appearing in London, the project will be presented in cities across the UK and internationally, after which the films will be accessible on Globe Player.

You can see the full list of actors and their corresponding plays via the Shakespeare’s Globe blog.

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