Festival
Season 1
196332 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Fallen Angels
1963-10-09
Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.
- E2
The Duel
1963-10-16 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E3
I Want to Go Home
1963-10-23 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E4
Stephen D
1963-10-30 · 60m
Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.
- E5
The Human Voice
1963-11-06 · 60m
During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.
- E6
Krapp's Last Tape
1963-11-13
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.
- E7
The Bald Prima Donna
1963-11-27 · 60m
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?
- E8
Stalingrad
1963-12-04 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E9
The Fire Raisers
1963-12-11 · 60m
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?
- E10
Little Eyolf
1963-12-18 · 60m
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.
- E11
The Comedy of Errors
1964-01-01 · 60m
Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.
- E12
The Respectful Prostitute
1964-01-08 · 60m
A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.
- E13
Lysistrata
1964-01-15 · 60m
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.
- E14
August for the People
1964-01-22 · 60m
Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?
- E15
Trevor
1964-02-05 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E16
The Lady of the Camellias
1964-02-12 · 60m
An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.
- E17
Say Nothing
1964-02-19 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E18
The Master of Santiago
1964-02-26 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E19
Under Milk Wood
1964-03-04 · 60m
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
- E20
A Florentine Tragedy
1964-03-11 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E21
The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?
1964-03-18 · 60m
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.
- E22
Murder in the Cathedral
1964-03-25 · 60m
T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
- E23
The Inner World of Miss Vaughan
1964-04-01 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E24
Ring Round the Moon
1964-04-08 · 60m
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.
- E25
Justin Thyme
1964-04-15 · 60m
Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.
- E26
John Bull's Other Island
1964-04-22 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E27
The Life of Galileo
1964-04-29 · 60m
The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.
- E28
The Keep
1964-05-06 · 60m
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?
- E29
Everyman
1964-05-20 · 60m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E30
Police
1964-05-27 · 60m
In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.
- E31
Six Characters in Search of an Author
1964-06-03 · 60m
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.
- E32
Bloomsday
1964-06-10 · 60m
One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.