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1) Enemies
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Maxim Gorky's powerful drama about the social ferment that culminated in the 1917 Russian Revolution is set on an estate in provincial Russia in 1905. In a sunlit-dappled garden, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest amongst the workers. Rather than submit to a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman, the ensuing investigation uncovers the socialist fervor that is sweeping...
Series
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
A surrealistic mixture of reality and imagination, "Feasting with Panthers" takes place in the life, mind, memory and vision of Oscar Wilde while imprisoned in England's Reading Gaol during the late Victorian Era. Through flashbacks and flash-forwards, the play presents a dramatic, flowing portrait of an era, and of a man whose genius and vitality live on in his own words.
4) Big blonde
Series
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
The Dorothy Parker short story chronicles the decline of a vivacious showroom model and good-time party girl in the 1920's, who gives up her high-life for marriage with a travelling salesman. When he turns out to be a hard-drinking philanderer, the marriage deteriorates, as she turns to drinking for solace, moving from man to man, and sinking into an alcoholic haze and deep funk.
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
First performed in 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's sophisticated comedy of manners satirizes the extravagance and corruption of London society. "The School for Scandal's" combination of elegant language and earthy comedy weaves a deliciously nasty tale of intrigue, slander and clandestine love affairs. Blair Brown stars in this timeless, witty look at the wages of scandal mongering and social climbing, scheming and hypocrisy.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Television adaptation of Arthur Miller's play, set in a detention room in Vichy in 1942, where a number of Jews await interrogation before being sent to concentration camps. Issues of personal responsibility are explored through the character of an Austrian prince who has been guilty of silent complicity during the German occupation of France.
7) June moon
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In homage to the heyday of American comedy, this satire takes on 1929's Tin Pan Alley. Its main characters are a gullible lyricist and a composer who claims as his big hit a ditty called "Paprika ... the spice of my life." Look for composer Stephen Sondheim as a wisecracking pianist in his acting debut.
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
This 1895 thriller tells the tale of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office in Richmond, Va. in 1864. Posing as a wounded Confederate captain, the spy's false orders to a Confederate Army commander raises suspicions and a trap is set.--Adapted from cover.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play brings to life the fate and foibles of the celebrated Antrobus family-- a bold and brassy embodiment of Wilder's vision of the American people. This eloquent comedy serves up an allegorical tale of one American family whose members must come to grips with their destinies. Having survived fire, flood, pestilence, seven-year locusts, the Ice Age and a dozen wars, the Antrobuses are as durable as radiators,...
10) The star wagon
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A production of the Maxwell Anderson play about an inventor, and his latest gadget, a 'star-wagon' which will return its driver to any desired point in time.
11) Steambath
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Controversial comedy about 12 characters in a steambath which turns out to be a waiting room between this world and the next.
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