Drama on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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Caligari
A play centring on the story of the sinister mesmerist Dr Caligari and his slave Cesare.
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Black Watch
By Gregory Burke. Based on interviews by Burke with former soldiers who served in Iraq.
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The Duchess of Malfi
By John Webster. A new production of one of the great Jacobean plays.
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Tulips in Winter
Michelene Wandor's play explores the life of the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
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Season of Migration to the North
A dramatisation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's sensual and shocking thriller.
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A Disappearing Number
A play about our compulsion to understand, exploring mathematics and creativity.
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Blue Wonder
A young secretary unwittingly becomes romantically involved with an East German spy.
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Your Only Man
A play imagining what might have happened if the author Brian O'Nolan's two alter egos met
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Two Men from Delft
In 1675, Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, a friend of Vermeer, made an astonishing discovery.
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Piper Alpha
A play chronicling the events of the 1988 Piper Alpha oil rig disaster.
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The Wild Duck
One of Henrik Ibsen's most powerful dramas, exploring the tragic impact of family secrets.
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True West
Screenwriter Austin's work on a film script is disrupted by the arrival of his brother Lee
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Shylock
Shylock's friend Antonio needs a loan and they agree to a forfeit of a pound of flesh.
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The Vertical Hour
Nadia has settled opinions and relationships - until she meets her boyfriend's father.
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The Leopard
Don Fabrizio contemplates his obsolescence amid the social changes of the Risorgimento.
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Othello
A production from London's Donmar Warehouse, with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role.
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Professor Bernhardi
Professor Bernhardi, by Arthur Schnitzler. Set in Vienna in 1900.
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Yesterday an Incident Occurred
After an unprovoked attack in a shopping centre, no one comes forward as a witness.
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The Country Wife
A man spreads the false rumour that he is impotent to gain access to other men's wives.
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Rudolpho's Zest
When Rudolpho reveals that he can't age beyond mid-life he finds his powers no longer work
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Swan Song
Paul Scofield stars in Anton Chekhov's play about an elderly actor confronting his ghosts.
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A Long Way from 91热爆
A play about the singer Marvin Gaye's final years, spent in Begium.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
A poet-swordsman with a mis-shapen nose falls in love with the beautiful Roxane.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
An adaptation of the classic drama about a family fighting over a dying father's millions.
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An Enemy of the People
A murdered man's sister-in-law seeks the truth about his murder.
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The Adding Machine
An Expressionist work from 1923 by American playwright Elmer Rice.
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Girlfriend in a Coma
A radio adaptation of a book by Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X and Microserfs.
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The Cool Bag Baby, by Katie Hims
A baby in a bag is left outside a cafe in the hope that the owner will give it a home.
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
A play about the mystery surrounding Socrates's trial and subsequent execution.