The National Theatre is 50 in October 2013 and has given the BBC unprecedented access to make two Arena documentaries for BBC Four.
In the second film Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner talk about running the new National Theatre - the biggest job in the British theatre - from its opening by the Queen in 1976 through the strikes which nearly forced it to ...
Arthur Miller’s scathing portrait of American society is revived here by director Howard Davies with an intricate, naturalistic set and detailed performances. This production, captured by Digital Theatre live at London’s Apollo Theatre, met with wide critical acclaim and starred David Suchet as Joe Keller.
Judy Haussman, an elderly hippy, deals with the dysfunctionality of her family, including her children, Nick and Libby, and the baggage they have in tow.
Learning his Japanese mother committed ******* after being abandoned by his American father, the young Yukio journeys to the United States to have his revenge. However, his plans are complicated when he inadvertently ends up working for a network of spies who want to get their hands on some important documents possessed by none other than Yukio's long-lost father.
A television adaption of Michael Frayn's celebrated and award-winning stage play about the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941 Copenhagen. At this time the young Heisenberg was leading a faltering German reseach program into nuclear energy, while the middle-aged and apparently isolated Bohr was in contact with allied agents, and still held a posi...
Ranyevskaya returns more or less bankrupt after ten years abroad. Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of Lopakhin, a peasant turned entrepreneur, to save the family estate. In so doing, they put up their lives to auction and seal the fate of the beloved orchard.
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