George (Richard Burton) and Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) invite their neighbours Nick (George Segal) and his wife Honey (Sandy Dennis) to an "evening of fun and games".
Heated up by alcohol and...
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In a remote little town in Russia, at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother fantasise about their return to their former home in Moscow.
For them, Moscow is a city of dreams,...
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Chekhov's play about the frustrations and disillusionment of advancing age and the boredom of provincial life in late 19th century Russia, is presented live on stage at the Chichester Festival...
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An outrageously funny look at the loves, lies and deceit that take place behind the scenes as a group of ridiculously inept stage actors rehearse a Broadway-bound play.
Just when members of this...
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Roger Daltrey stars as the highwayman in this adaptation of John Gay's play made specially for television. The music is an arrangement of 18th century folk songs which are performed on authentic...
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Based upon the play by William Gibson, this dramatic story follows Helen Keller - a young blind and deaf girl - and a teacher who relies on her determination and instinct to bring light and joy into...
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A moving adaptation of Mark Handley's play 'Idioglossia', this excellent film was directed by Michael Apted and has a first rate cast.
The backwoods of North Carolina is where Nell (Jodie Foster)...
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Nora Helmer is being blackmailed for committing forgery many years earlier in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now, she lives in fear of him finding out because of the...
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The first of Ibsen's plays to create a sensation within society and Joseph Losey's film adaptation transcends the generations from when it was first seen on stage.
Starring Jane Fonda, Edward Fox,...
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A lavish adaptation of William Rowley and Thomas Middleton's 17th century Gothic play.
A passionate young woman pleads with her manservant to murder her betrothed so that she can be with the man...
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Critically praised, intriguing and full of suspense, this production stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder. A powerful story of passion, jealousy, paranoia and betrayal is woven into a highly...
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An outstanding adaptation of Arthur Miller's stage masterpiece about William Loman (Dustin Hoffman), the emotionally broken-down salesman, coming to terms with his life and his family after being...
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Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman, is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers,...
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Laurence Olivier delivers an Oscar-nominated performance in this riveting film based on John Osborne's play. Powerful, thought-provoking and vividly theatrical, it is a supremely entertaining...
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John Osborne's acclaimed and formative play is directed by Judi Dench in this excellent screen version.
As a child, Jimmy Porter watched his father die alone and in poverty. He is now an 'angry...
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Described as a comedy of menace, 'The Birthday Party' is a dramatic expose of contemporary man's inability to cope with his fears and guilt.
Stanley is lodging at a shabby seaside boarding house....
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The play that made Harold Pinter's name in 1960 remains, probably, his most famous.
With Donald Pleasence as Davies, Alan Bates as Mick and Robert Shaw as Aston, we see on film three of the...
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Harold Pinter's play electrified audiences when it was first performed in 1965. This American Film Theatre adaptation, directed by Peter Hall, captures the intensity of the language and the...
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A young girl is murdered and an Inspector calls on a prosperous Yorkshire household investigating the sad circumstances behind her death. Each family member has a secret - and each is partly...
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The story of the very public fight to clear the name of the Winslow family's son. Based on the play by Terrence Rattigan.
Starring Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Gemma Jones, Rebecca Pidgeon...
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Dr Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is an alchoholic professor of literature headed for dire straits. Rita (Julie Walters) is a frustrated young housewife filled with wanderlust. When the two meet as...
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A Liverpudlian school coach outing to Conway Castle in North Wales, the zoo, the beach and the fair, brings out anarchic behaviour in pupils and teachers alike.
An exuberant celebration of the...
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Adapted by Anthony Shaffer from his own hit stage play, Sleuth is a reflexively self-aware send-up of the murder-mystery genre, which risks everything on the tour de force performances of its small...
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An adaptation of Sheridan's popular 'comedy of manners', recorded on stage at the Bristol Old Vic.
The Rivals is a portrait drawn from material of Sheridan's own life; his scandalous marriage to...
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1890's high society provides the setting for Oscar Wilde's sparkling commedy of morals and manners, in which an 'ideal' husband must fight to save both his marriage and reputation when a blackmailing...
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Devoted womaniser and tireless party-goer, Arthur Goring (Rupert Everett) is famed throughout London for his refusal to take anything seriously.
Sir Robert Chiltern (Jeremy Northam) is a brilliant...
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Rising politician Robert Chilton, his wife Gertrude and sister Mabel decide to throw a party where he is held up as a pillar of the community. Things, however, take a turn for the worse when Lady...
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A pair of flamboyant Victorian bachelors - Algy (Rupert Everett) and Jack (Colin Firth) - secretly lead double lives.
Using aliases and false alibis, the pair woo respectable ladies by day and...
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'Lady Windermere's Fan' is presented as a part of the BBC Oscar Wilde Collection along with 'The Importance of Being Earnest', 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'An Ideal Husband'.
Directed by Tony...
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'The Importance of Being Earnest', 'An Ideal Husband' and 'Lady Windermere's Fan' are presented together with an adaptation of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' in this set of three DVDs from the BBC -...
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Infidelities, addictions, latent homosexuality, depression, unrequited love and mendacity are woven into this powerful adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Excellent...
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Tennessee Williams based his screenplay on Oscar Saul's adaptation of Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in grimy New Orleans.
It's the story of the fragile sentimentalism of a former...
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