Season 1
32 episodes · Oct 9, 1963
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- S1E4
Stephen D
Oct 30, 196360mDublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.
- S1E5
The Human Voice
Nov 6, 196360mDuring a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.
- S1E6
Krapp's Last Tape
Nov 13, 1963On 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.
- S1E7
The Bald Prima Donna
Nov 27, 196360mThere 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?
- S1E9
The Fire Raisers
Dec 11, 196360mIn 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?
- S1E10
Little Eyolf
Dec 18, 196360mA 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.
- S1E11
The Comedy of Errors
Jan 1, 196460mTwo unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.
- S1E12
The Respectful Prostitute
Jan 8, 196460mA prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.
- S1E13
Lysistrata
Jan 15, 196460mA 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.
- S1E14
August for the People
Jan 22, 196460mSir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?
- S1E16
The Lady of the Camellias
Feb 12, 196460mAn innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.
- S1E19
Under Milk Wood
Mar 4, 196460mOne 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
- S1E21
The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?
Mar 18, 196460mDenis 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.
- S1E22
Murder in the Cathedral
Mar 25, 196460mT. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
- S1E24
Ring Round the Moon
Apr 8, 196460mTwin 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.
- S1E25
Justin Thyme
Apr 15, 196460mSuper-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.
- S1E27
The Life of Galileo
Apr 29, 196460mThe researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.
- S1E28
The Keep
May 6, 196460mThe 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?
- S1E30
Police
May 27, 196460mIn an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.
- S1E31
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Jun 3, 196460mAn 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.
- S1E32
Bloomsday
Jun 10, 196460mOne day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.