Drama on 3 Episodes Episode guide
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Measure for Measure
Paul Higgins and Nicola Ferguson star in Shakespeare's last and perhaps strangest comedy.
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The Merchant of Venice
Andrew Scott stars in Shakespeare's play of debt, greed and prejudice, transposed to 2008.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Martin Jarvis directs Wilde's thrilling drama. Mira Sorvino leads an outstanding cast.
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The Wild Duck
David Threlfall, Samuel West and James Fox star in Ibsen's tragi-comic masterpiece.
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Free Thinking Festival: Suffrage Dramas
The little-known plays written by activists to help in the campaign for votes for women.
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Byzantium
Byzantium by Robin Brooks. Poison, rebellion, torture, eunuch armies and black magic.
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The Last of the Volsungs
Blood, revenge and the inevitability of fate in this dramatisation of an Icelandic saga.
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The Name
Jon Fosse's Ibsen Prize-winning stage play is the story of a young woman's return home.
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Love Is Not New in This Country
Intrepid actors stage a production of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost in Kabul in 2005.
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The Effect
Award-winning chemical romance by Lucy Prebble set during a clinical trial.
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Transformations
Love, passion and change. Five stories dramatised from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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Tis Pity She's a Whore
Compassionate and disturbing, John Ford's great story of doomed love.
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Ninety Minutes with Stanislavski
Cressida has 90 minutes before her next run-through of The Seagull. She needs help.
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The Devil's Passion
David Suchet stars as Satan, in Justin Butcher's wicked hell's-eye view of the Passion.
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Fear and Loathing in Russia Today
A showcase of contemporary Russian writing in three short plays.
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Fathers and Sons by Brian Friel
Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres direct a dynamic dramatisation of Turgenev's novel.
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The Dark Tower
A new production of Louis MacNeice's play The Dark Tower, with music by Benjamin Britten.
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All of the Violence in the World
Three wars. Three causes. Three teenagers with nothing to lose but their lives.
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A Clockwork Orange
New version of Anthony Burgess's dystopian classic, with music, recorded live in Hull.
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The Father
Kenneth Cranham's portrayal of a man suffering from dementia in a darkly funny drama.
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The Mother
Gina McKee stars in Florian Zeller's award-winning stage play.
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Victim
The story of ‘Victim’, the first British film to seriously address homosexuality.
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Joe Orton Double-Bill: The Erpingham Camp and The Ruffian on the Stair
Two Joe Orton plays recorded live at the 91Èȱ¬'s Radio Theatre.
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Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill's drama about one devastating day in the lives of the Tyrone family.
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My Own Life
Joss Ackland and Ken Stott read the final works of Oliver Sacks and David Hume.
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Iphigenia in Crimea
Tony Harrison's most recent play imagines Crimean War soldiers staging Euripides's play.
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Richard II
When Shakespeare's Richard II banishes Bolingbroke he brings about his own downfall.
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Pericles
Shakespeare's rarely produced Pericles, in a disturbing new version starring Willard White
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams's seminal drama, starring Anne-Marie Duff as Blanche.
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The American Grandmother
Drama about a woman returning to her estranged family after many years away.