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    TV Series

    Festival

    IMDb7.5/10
    1963 - Present
    Returning Series
    Seasons: 1
    Episodes: 32

    An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.

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    Seasons & Episodes

    1. Fallen Angels

    Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.

    10/9/1963

    2. The Duel

    No description available.

    10/16/196360 min

    3. I Want to Go Home

    No description available.

    10/23/196360 min

    4. Stephen D

    Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.

    10/30/196360 min

    5. The Human Voice

    During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.

    11/6/196360 min

    6. Krapp's Last Tape

    On Krapp's 69th birthday he reviews a tape recording he made the year he was 39 and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months.

    11/13/1963

    7. The Bald Prima Donna

    There is no prima donna in this play, and if there was one, she wouldn't be bald. Apart from that, what could be more normal?

    11/27/196360 min

    8. Stalingrad

    No description available.

    12/4/196360 min

    9. The Fire Raisers

    In an area plagued by mysterious outbursts of arson, two strangers arrive and inveigle their way into the home of a wealthy bourgeois businessman. Are they the fire raisers? Surely they can't be - can they?

    12/11/196360 min

    10. Little Eyolf

    A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.

    12/18/196360 min

    11. The Comedy of Errors

    Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.

    1/1/196460 min

    12. The Respectful Prostitute

    A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.

    1/8/196460 min

    13. Lysistrata

    A version of Aristophane's play: Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.

    1/15/196460 min

    14. August for the People

    Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?

    1/22/196460 min

    15. Trevor

    No description available.

    2/5/196460 min

    16. The Lady of the Camellias

    An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.

    2/12/196460 min

    17. Say Nothing

    No description available.

    2/19/196460 min

    18. The Master of Santiago

    No description available.

    2/26/196460 min

    19. Under Milk Wood

    One night while the townsfolk wrestle with their dreams, seedy Captain Cat and a stranger walk the streets. Captain Cat is a blind, retired sea captain, recalling memories of drowned shipmates and Rosie Probert, a whore and the one great love of his youth

    3/4/196460 min

    20. A Florentine Tragedy

    No description available.

    3/11/196460 min

    21. The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?

    Denis Johnston's first play took Dublin by storm and laid the foundation of the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre. It takes place in the mind of an actor who is playing the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet in a traditional patriotic drama. The actor is knocked unconscious by accident and in his reverie he imagines he is Emmet walking the streets of present-day Dublin, confronting the jarring contrast between the myth of Ireland and modern day reality.

    3/18/196460 min

    22. Murder in the Cathedral

    T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.

    3/25/196460 min

    23. The Inner World of Miss Vaughan

    No description available.

    4/1/196460 min

    24. Ring Round the Moon

    Twin brothers with very different personalities are in conflict over the love of a less than worthy woman. One brother comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.

    4/8/196460 min

    25. Justin Thyme

    Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.

    4/15/196460 min

    26. John Bull's Other Island

    No description available.

    4/22/196460 min

    27. The Life of Galileo

    The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.

    4/29/196460 min

    28. The Keep

    The memory of a revered and long-dead mother binds together a Welsh family, and also prevents any of its members from having a full life. But is she really dead?

    5/6/196460 min

    29. Everyman

    No description available.

    5/20/196460 min

    30. Police

    In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.

    5/27/196460 min

    31. Six Characters in Search of an Author

    An absurdist play about the relationship between authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners. In it, the actors, author, and crew interact with the "real characters" who appear on stage during the rehearsal of the play.

    6/3/196460 min

    32. Bloomsday

    One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.

    6/10/196460 min