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An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Season 1
N/A/100 votesFallen Angels
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/1963
Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.
Director: Alan Bromly
Writer: Noël Coward
N/A/100 votesKrapp's Last Tape
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1963
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.
Director: Prudence FitzGerald
Writer: Samuel Beckett
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N/A/100 votesLysistrata
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1964
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.
Director: Prudence FitzGerald
Writer: Marc Brandel, Patric Dickinson, Aristophanes
N/A/100 votesUnder Milk Wood
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/4/1964
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
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/18/1964
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSix Characters in Search of an Author
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 6/3/1964
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBloomsday
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 6/10/1964
One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.
Director: Henric Hirsch
Writer: Allan McClelland, James Joyce