Tony Harrison

Most Popular Tony Harrison Trailers

Total trailers found: 7

The Blue Bird Trailer (1976)

30 April 1976

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune.

Black Daisies For The Bride Trailer (1993)

30 June 1993

A play written by Tony Harrison as a tribute to sufferers of Alzheimer's disease. Filmed in High Royds Hospital, Menston, Yorkshire, the play combines drama, documentary, song, verse and music to unravel the lives of the residents.

Prometheus Trailer (1999)

16 April 1999

Tony Harrison's poetic essay on the working class - in particular the British miners -, its struggles, its dreams and its icononography - at the very end of the 20th century, as interpreted through the myth of Prometheus.

V. Trailer (1987)

04 November 1987

Visualisation of Tony Harrison's poem "v.". v. is about the multiple meanings of the letter - victory, versus, verses, etc.

The Blasphemers' Banquet Trailer (1989)

31 July 1989

A film-poem written in response to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

The Gaze of the Gorgon Trailer (1992)

03 October 1992

Film poem by Tony Harrison which takes the figure of the Gorgon as a metaphor for the "freedom-fixing politics" which have been responsible for so much conflict this century.

The Oresteia Trailer (1983)

09 October 1983

Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan war and is murdered by his wife, setting off a chain of revenge that stretches across this trilogy of play.