The Best Episodes of Performance Season 3

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   0.0/10(0 votes)

   #1 - Suddenly Last Summer

   S3:E111/6/1993

   Mrs Venable's grief at the loss of her beloved poet son Sebastian turns to rage against her niece Catharine, his last companion and witness of his gruesome death. Determined to erase the memory of Sebastian's loss, she tries to persuade her pet doctor to perform a lobotomy on Catharine.

   Director:Richard Eyre

   Writer:Tennessee Williams

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   Director:Richard Eyre

   Writer:Tennessee Williams
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   7.3/10(46 votes)

   #2 - The Maitlands

   S3:E211/13/1993

   It is early summer in the secluded seaside village of Betworthy. But there is a strained atmosphere in the once-prosperous Maitland household, because the family has fallen on hard times. Performance presents the first production for 60 years of the witty and tragic family drama by Ronald Mackenzie.

   Director:Lindsay Posner

   Writer:Ronald Mackenzie

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   Director:Lindsay Posner

   Writer:Ronald Mackenzie
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   8.0/10(51 votes)

   #3 - Hedda Gabler

   S3:E311/27/1993

   Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results.

   Director:Deborah Warner

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Deborah Warner

   Writer:Unknown
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   6.9/10(11 votes)

   #4 - The Entertainer

   S3:E412/4/1993

   The play uses the metaphor of the dying music hall tradition, specifically fictional music hall star Archie Rice, to comment on the moribund state of the British Empire in the 1950s.

   Director:Nicholas Renton

   Writer:John Osborne

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   Director:Nicholas Renton

   Writer:John Osborne
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   6.3/10(70 votes)

   #5 - The Changeling

   S3:E512/11/1993

   Just days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes that she has met her one true love. To marry the man she loves, she persuades the love-struck henchman De Flores to murder her fiancé, but does not anticipate the tragic consequences of her actions.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown