Festival
1963 · 1 season · 32 episodes · Returning Series · BBC Television
Drama
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An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Episodes
- S01E01Fallen Angels1963-10-09
Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.
- S01E02The Duel1963-10-1660m
- S01E03I Want to Go Home1963-10-2360m
- S01E04Stephen D1963-10-3060m
Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.
- S01E05The Human Voice1963-11-0660m
During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.
- S01E06Krapp's Last Tape1963-11-13
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.
- S01E07The Bald Prima Donna1963-11-2760m
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?
- S01E08Stalingrad1963-12-0460m
- S01E09The Fire Raisers1963-12-1160m
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?
- S01E10Little Eyolf1963-12-1860m
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.
- S01E11The Comedy of Errors1964-01-0160m
Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.
- S01E12The Respectful Prostitute1964-01-0860m
A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.
- S01E13Lysistrata1964-01-1560m
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.
- S01E14August for the People1964-01-2260m
Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?
- S01E15Trevor1964-02-0560m
- S01E16The Lady of the Camellias1964-02-1260m
An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.
- S01E17Say Nothing1964-02-1960m
- S01E18The Master of Santiago1964-02-2660m
- S01E19Under Milk Wood1964-03-0460m
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
- S01E20A Florentine Tragedy1964-03-1160m
- S01E21The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?1964-03-1860m
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.
- S01E22Murder in the Cathedral1964-03-2560m
T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
- S01E23The Inner World of Miss Vaughan1964-04-0160m
- S01E24Ring Round the Moon1964-04-0860m
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.
- S01E25Justin Thyme1964-04-1560m
Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.
- S01E26John Bull's Other Island1964-04-2260m
- S01E27The Life of Galileo1964-04-2960m
The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.
- S01E28The Keep1964-05-0660m
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?
- S01E29Everyman1964-05-2060m
- S01E30Police1964-05-2760m
In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.
- S01E31Six Characters in Search of an Author1964-06-0360m
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.
- S01E32Bloomsday1964-06-1060m
One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.
Cast
Cyril CusackThomas Beckett, Father, Krapp- Ann BellGood-Deeds, Katonike
- Kate BinchyNun, Boeotian Girl
- June TobinMolly Bloom, Leader of Chorus
John WoodThe Speaker - Robert Emmet, Laevsky
John WelshGeneral, Aegeon, a Merchant of Syracuse
Marie KeanFlower Woman, Dante
Aubrey RichardsCaptain Cat, Russell
John Le Mesurierde Giray, Don Bernal de la Encina- Eric ThompsonBorghejm, Prisoner
Peter SallisCaptain of the Fire Brigade, Romainville
Jane MerrowGiselle, Susan