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Festival

8.0 / 10
1963
1 season
32 episodes
Drama

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

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  • Ep 1

    1.Fallen Angels

    09-10-1963

    Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.

  • Ep 2

    2.The Duel

    16-10-196360m
  • Ep 3

    3.I Want to Go Home

    23-10-196360m
  • Ep 4

    4.Stephen D

    30-10-196360m

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

  • Ep 5

    5.The Human Voice

    06-11-196360m

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

  • Ep 6

    6.Krapp's Last Tape

    13-11-1963

    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.

  • Ep 7

    7.The Bald Prima Donna

    27-11-196360m

    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?

  • Ep 8

    8.Stalingrad

    04-12-196360m
  • Ep 9

    9.The Fire Raisers

    11-12-196360m

    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...

  • Ep 10

    10.Little Eyolf

    18-12-196360m

    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 f...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Comedy of Errors

    01-01-196460m

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

  • Ep 12

    12.The Respectful Prostitute

    08-01-196460m

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

  • Ep 13

    13.Lysistrata

    15-01-196460m

    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 s...

  • Ep 14

    14.August for the People

    22-01-196460m

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

  • Ep 15

    15.Trevor

    05-02-196460m
  • Ep 16

    16.The Lady of the Camellias

    12-02-196460m

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

  • Ep 17

    17.Say Nothing

    19-02-196460m
  • Ep 18

    18.The Master of Santiago

    26-02-196460m
  • Ep 19

    19.Under Milk Wood

    04-03-196460m

    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 drown...

  • Ep 20

    20.A Florentine Tragedy

    11-03-196460m
  • Ep 21

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

    18-03-196460m

    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 playi...

  • Ep 22

    22.Murder in the Cathedral

    25-03-196460m

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

  • Ep 23

    23.The Inner World of Miss Vaughan

    01-04-196460m
  • Ep 24

    24.Ring Round the Moon

    08-04-196460m

    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.

  • Ep 25

    25.Justin Thyme

    15-04-196460m

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

  • Ep 26

    26.John Bull's Other Island

    22-04-196460m
  • Ep 27

    27.The Life of Galileo

    29-04-196460m

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

  • Ep 28

    28.The Keep

    06-05-196460m

    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?

  • Ep 29

    29.Everyman

    20-05-196460m
  • Ep 30

    30.Police

    27-05-196460m

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

  • Ep 31

    31.Six Characters in Search of an Author

    03-06-196460m

    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 a...

  • Ep 32

    32.Bloomsday

    10-06-196460m

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

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