Original title
Festival
Released
10/9/1963
Origin country
GB
Genre
Drama
Production companies
BBC
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
32
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.
Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.
During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.
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.
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?
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?
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.
Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.
A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.
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.
Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?
An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.
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
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.
T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
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.
Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.
The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.
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?
In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.
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.
One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.
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