Festival

E1 Episode 1: Fallen Angels

• Now playing
• Oct 9, 1963

Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.

E2 Episode 2: The Duel

• 1h
• Oct 16, 1963

E3 Episode 3: I Want to Go Home

• 1h
• Oct 23, 1963

E4 Episode 4: Stephen D

• 1h
• Oct 30, 1963

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

E5 Episode 5: The Human Voice

• 1h
• Nov 6, 1963

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

E6 Episode 6: Krapp's Last Tape

• Nov 13, 1963

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 Episode 7: The Bald Prima Donna

• 1h
• Nov 27, 1963

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 Episode 8: Stalingrad

• 1h
• Dec 4, 1963

E9 Episode 9: The Fire Raisers

• 1h
• Dec 11, 1963

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 Episode 10: Little Eyolf

• 1h
• Dec 18, 1963

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 Episode 11: The Comedy of Errors

• 1h
• Jan 1, 1964

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

E12 Episode 12: The Respectful Prostitute

• 1h
• Jan 8, 1964

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

E13 Episode 13: Lysistrata

• 1h
• Jan 15, 1964

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 Episode 14: August for the People

• 1h
• Jan 22, 1964

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

E15 Episode 15: Trevor

• 1h
• Feb 5, 1964

E16 Episode 16: The Lady of the Camellias

• 1h
• Feb 12, 1964

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

E17 Episode 17: Say Nothing

• 1h
• Feb 19, 1964

E18 Episode 18: The Master of Santiago

• 1h
• Feb 26, 1964

E19 Episode 19: Under Milk Wood

• 1h
• Mar 4, 1964

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 Episode 20: A Florentine Tragedy

• 1h
• Mar 11, 1964

E21 Episode 21: The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?

• 1h
• Mar 18, 1964

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 Episode 22: Murder in the Cathedral

• 1h
• Mar 25, 1964

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

E23 Episode 23: The Inner World of Miss Vaughan

• 1h
• Apr 1, 1964

E24 Episode 24: Ring Round the Moon

• 1h
• Apr 8, 1964

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 Episode 25: Justin Thyme

• 1h
• Apr 15, 1964

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

E26 Episode 26: John Bull's Other Island

• 1h
• Apr 22, 1964

E27 Episode 27: The Life of Galileo

• 1h
• Apr 29, 1964

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

E28 Episode 28: The Keep

• 1h
• May 6, 1964

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 Episode 29: Everyman

• 1h
• May 20, 1964

E30 Episode 30: Police

• 1h
• May 27, 1964

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

E31 Episode 31: Six Characters in Search of an Author

• 1h
• Jun 3, 1964

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 Episode 32: Bloomsday

• 1h
• Jun 10, 1964

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