Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Overview

Animazione

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.

Cast & crew

Oberon (voice)Daniel Massey

Titania (voice)Suzanne Bertish

Bottom (voice)Bernard Hill

Hermia (voice)Abigail McKern

D

Demetrius (voice)Charles Millham

Helena (voice)Kathryn Pogson

Lysander (voice)Kim Wall

P

Puck (voice)Anthony Jackson

Quince (voice)Pete Postlethwaite

Narrator (voice)Menna Trussler

Narrator (voice)Martin Jarvis

Prospero (voice)Timothy West

Kate (voice)Amanda Root

Petruchio (voice)Nigel Le Vaillant

Sly / Nathaniel (voice)Malcolm Storry

B

Bianca (voice)Manon Edwards

H

Hostess / Widow (voice)Lawmary Champion

Hortensio / Peter (voice)Hilton McRae

• William Shakespeare · Writer
• Leon Garfield · Writer
• Natalya Orlova · Director
• Stanislav Sokolov · Director
• Nikolay Serebryakov · Director
• Aida Zyablikova · Director
• Alexey Karaev · Director
• Yuri Kulakov · Director
• Maria Muat · Director
• Robert Sahakyants · Director
• Yefim Gamburg · Director