Broadway Theatre Archive.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
This production of Eugene O'Neill's nostalgic paean to the rites of adolescence has been hailed for its beauty, intimacy and good humor. Set in New England in the days of America's innocence, the affectionate comedy presents a young man's coming of age during a summer in which he experiemnts with poetry, politics, wicked women and alcohol and succumbs to his first romantic crush.
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
Kiss, kiss dahlings focuses on three generations of actresses in three different eras. In The last mile, a look at both the comic and the poignant minutes in an opera diva's life just before the curtain rises on her Metropolitan Opera debut in "Tosca."
3) Antigone
Publisher
Educational Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A filmed play adaptation from the Jean Anouilh reinterpretation of the Sophocles tragedy. First written and produced during the Nazi Occupation, this play about a young woman facing a morally corrupt world raises powerful questions of human interaction in regard to collaboration, responsibility and personal integrity.
7) The seagull
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
A production by the Williamstown Theatre Festival of Anton Chekhov's classic comedy-drama depicting man's propensity for destroying those he is close to. The main protagonists are Trepleff, the youthful aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre and Irina Arkadina, Trepleff's self-centered mother, an accomplished actress, who derides her son's ambitions.
10) Happy days
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
Happy days tells the story of Winnie, an eternal optimist facing the harsh realities of the world with a smile and impenetrable cheerfulness. Samuel Beckett captures her, in his words, "laughing wild amid severest woe." With aching and audacious humor, Beckett probes humankind's search for meaning and questions the relationships that bind one person to another.
Publisher
Broadway Theatre Archive
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
Set in a research laboratory, this is the poignant story of a friendless, simple scrubwoman, Ruth White, who pits all her energies to save the life of one of the experimental animals in the lab, a dolphin who stubbornly refuses to talk to anyone but her.
12) Paradise lost
Publisher
Broadway Theatre Archive
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1932 during the depression, the story unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes.
13) Sea marks
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
An Irish fisherman becomes smitten by an English woman he has glimpsed only once at a wedding.
14) The good doctor
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
A presentation of Neil Simon's broadway hit based on Chekhov's early short stories which so eloquently capture the comic and serious sides of the 19th century Russian bourgeoisie.
15) Verna, USO girl
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Sissy Spacek is Verna, USO Girl, a kindhearted, but not particularly talented, member of a performing troupe in World War II Belgium.
16) The human voice
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
Ingrid Bergman plays a middle-aged woman going through a psychological crisis as a love affair ends. French playwright Jean Cocteau's pioneering one-character drama unfolds in the form of an extended monology-- a one-sided telephone conversation in which the woman tries to win back her lover despite her growing suspicion that he is calling from his young fiancee's home.
19) Scarecrow
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In a 17th century Massachusetts town, a scarecrow is magically transformed into a man and charged with the mission of destroying true love.