Marlowe's Ghost
"Did Christopher Marlowe write Shakespeare's plays?"
© DARYL PINKSEN 2011
TAMPA, FL. Saturday, February 28, 2009
Michael Rubbo, Emmy-winning Australian filmmaker speaks with AP English class at Berkeley Prep Thursday afternoon.
From "The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection"Monday, October 20, 2008
MSC Exclusive: A Question for Mike Rubbo, writer and director of "Much Ado About Something" by Carlo Di Nota
"We caught up with Mike Rubbo, the veteran Australian filmmaker who wrote and directed the 2002 PBS/Frontline documentary Much Ado About Something, which explores the theory that Christopher Marlowe actually wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to Shakespeare...."
(Read the entire interview with Mike Rubbo)
MARCH 2, 2002
Mystery Man:
By GAVIN MCNETT
A new documentary revives an old controversy: Was actor and landowner William Shakespeare merely a front man for Christopher Marlowe, the flamboyant gay genius and shadowy Elizabethan spy? (Full Story . . .)
Waiting for Fidel
Film students may remember Michael Rubbo from the influential 1974 documentary Waiting for Fidel, which chronicled the exploits of former Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood and local media mogul Geoff Stirling as they waited for an audience with Castro.
NOVEMBER 14, 1975
Two men meet at a party. The big one puts out his hand and booms: "I'm J. Peter Throgmorton. That's me." The small, sallow one puts out his hand and mumbles: "I'm Lycurgus Threep. That isn't me."
Michael Rubbo is a Canadian who makes Threeplike documentaries. His theme, as he goes from place to place, is the impossibility of getting at very much reality in any of them.
Much Ado About Something
Now available on DVD format at PBS Frontline home video.
Available at the Official Website of the film.
Read reviews for Much Ado about Something at Rotten Tomatoes.
(director, producer, screenwriter, editor)
Catching Up In Montreal
MONTREAL, QC. March 2009
Mike and I met up at a popular Saint Catherine Street eatery to discuss all things Marlowe and Shakespeare.
© DARYL PINKSEN 2011
