Festival (Staffel 1)

Fallen Angels (Folge 1)

Autor: Noël Coward

Sendedatum: 1963-10-09

Übersicht: Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.

The Duel (Folge 2)

Sendedatum: 1963-10-16

Laufzeit: 60 min

I Want to Go Home (Folge 3)

Sendedatum: 1963-10-23

Laufzeit: 60 min

Stephen D (Folge 4)

Sendedatum: 1963-10-30

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.

The Human Voice (Folge 5)

Sendedatum: 1963-11-06

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.

Krapp's Last Tape (Folge 6)

Autor: Samuel Beckett

Sendedatum: 1963-11-13

Übersicht: 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.

The Bald Prima Donna (Folge 7)

Sendedatum: 1963-11-27

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: 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?

Stalingrad (Folge 8)

Sendedatum: 1963-12-04

Laufzeit: 60 min

The Fire Raisers (Folge 9)

Sendedatum: 1963-12-11

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: 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?

Little Eyolf (Folge 10)

Sendedatum: 1963-12-18

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: 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.

The Comedy of Errors (Folge 11)

Sendedatum: 1964-01-01

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.

The Respectful Prostitute (Folge 12)

Sendedatum: 1964-01-08

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.

Lysistrata (Folge 13)

Autor: Marc Brandel

Sendedatum: 1964-01-15

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: 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.

August for the People (Folge 14)

Sendedatum: 1964-01-22

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?

Trevor (Folge 15)

Sendedatum: 1964-02-05

Laufzeit: 60 min

The Lady of the Camellias (Folge 16)

Sendedatum: 1964-02-12

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.

Say Nothing (Folge 17)

Sendedatum: 1964-02-19

Laufzeit: 60 min

The Master of Santiago (Folge 18)

Sendedatum: 1964-02-26

Laufzeit: 60 min

Under Milk Wood (Folge 19)

Sendedatum: 1964-03-04

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: 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

A Florentine Tragedy (Folge 20)

Sendedatum: 1964-03-11

Laufzeit: 60 min

The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon? (Folge 21)

Sendedatum: 1964-03-18

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: 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.

Murder in the Cathedral (Folge 22)

Sendedatum: 1964-03-25

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.

The Inner World of Miss Vaughan (Folge 23)

Sendedatum: 1964-04-01

Laufzeit: 60 min

Ring Round the Moon (Folge 24)

Sendedatum: 1964-04-08

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: 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.

Justin Thyme (Folge 25)

Sendedatum: 1964-04-15

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.

John Bull's Other Island (Folge 26)

Sendedatum: 1964-04-22

Laufzeit: 60 min

The Life of Galileo (Folge 27)

Sendedatum: 1964-04-29

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.

The Keep (Folge 28)

Sendedatum: 1964-05-06

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: 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?

Everyman (Folge 29)

Sendedatum: 1964-05-20

Laufzeit: 60 min

Police (Folge 30)

Sendedatum: 1964-05-27

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Folge 31)

Sendedatum: 1964-06-03

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: 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.

Bloomsday (Folge 32)

Autor: Allan McClelland

Sendedatum: 1964-06-10

Laufzeit: 60 min

Übersicht: One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.