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Fallen Angels
E1Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.
Festival
1963
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8.0
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Drama
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GB
• English
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Episodes
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The Duel
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I Want to Go Home
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Stephen D
E4 60mDublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.
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The Human Voice
E5 60mDuring a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.
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Krapp's Last Tape
E6On 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.
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The Bald Prima Donna
E7 60mThere 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?
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Stalingrad
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The Fire Raisers
E9 60mIn 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?
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Little Eyolf
E10 60mA 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.
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The Comedy of Errors
E11 60mTwo unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.
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The Respectful Prostitute
E12 60mA prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.
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Lysistrata
E13 60mA 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.
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August for the People
E14 60mSir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?
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Trevor
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The Lady of the Camellias
E16 60mAn innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.
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Say Nothing
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The Master of Santiago
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Under Milk Wood
E19 60mOne 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
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A Florentine Tragedy
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The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?
E21 60mDenis 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.
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Murder in the Cathedral
E22 60mT. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
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The Inner World of Miss Vaughan
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Ring Round the Moon
E24 60mTwin 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.
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Justin Thyme
E25 60mSuper-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.
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John Bull's Other Island
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The Life of Galileo
E27 60mThe researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.
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The Keep
E28 60mThe 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?
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Everyman
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Police
E30 60mIn an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
E31 60mAn 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.
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Bloomsday
E32 60mOne day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.
