Cedric Messina

Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air....

27 de fev. de 1980

In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder...

06 de set. de 1987

The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.

16 de dez. de 1979

Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, y...

10 de dez. de 1978

Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. T...

25 de mai. de 1980

A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."

15 de mar. de 1970

Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the p...

25 de fev. de 1979

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes in...

06 de jan. de 1980

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?

11 de dez. de 1966

The original play by Christopher Hampton, was adapted into this made-for-TV movie and it offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict ...

28 de out. de 1975

Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. ...

20 de jan. de 1974

Directed by Donald McWhinnie.

13 de fev. de 1977

Dramatisation of Henry James's novel. Lambert Strether comes to Europe on a difficult and delicate mission. A chance meeting on arrival with the en...

13 de mar. de 1977

Captain Shotover, a retired seafarer, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends. As they indulg...

19 de mai. de 1977

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, i...

05 de fev. de 1967

18 de jan. de 1970

Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nickname...

09 de dez. de 1979

Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil...

03 de dez. de 1978

Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as the British cabinet and monarchy face a day of "c...

19 de jan. de 1975

Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.

28 de nov. de 1965

When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is se...

18 de fev. de 1979

The play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

17 de mai. de 1970

A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden...

17 de nov. de 1974

Staring Lynn Redgrave as Eliza Dolittle, this charming BBC production captures the complexities of human relationships in a social world. Phonetics...

16 de dez. de 1973

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the li...

26 de dez. de 1982

In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gyps...

02 de nov. de 1975

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

11 de fev. de 1979

Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot have both recently remarried. On their honeymoons, however, they discover that they have accidentally booked adjoi...

28 de dez. de 1976

A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Art...

16 de set. de 1973

TV-movie version of the Victor Hugo novel.

30 de dez. de 1976

Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay and Charles Gray star in the adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play. The Venice Titian and the Belmont of Bott...

16 de abr. de 1972

The romantic and comic adventures of a group of Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.

16 de mai. de 1976

Orlando is forced to work like a servant for his brother Oliver, so he goes to win his fortune in a wrestling contest, where he meets a lady of the...

17 de dez. de 1978

The term at Osborne Naval College is not yet over. Why, therefore, has cadet Ronnie Winslow returned home? And why, moreover, is he hiding in the g...

16 de jan. de 1977

A writer's past comes to haunt him when his ex-mistress visits.

09 de jul. de 1982

A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.

31 de out. de 1965

Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its ...

03 de out. de 1972

A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.

07 de jul. de 1982

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast o...

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first ...