About this season
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Episodes (32)
1. Fallen Angels
Aired 9 October 1963
Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.
2. The Duel
Aired 16 October 1963 • 60 min
3. I Want to Go Home
Aired 23 October 1963 • 60 min
4. Stephen D
Aired 30 October 1963 • 60 min
Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.
5. The Human Voice
Aired 6 November 1963 • 60 min
During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.
6. Krapp's Last Tape
Aired 13 November 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.
7. The Bald Prima Donna
Aired 27 November 1963 • 60 min
There 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?
8. Stalingrad
Aired 4 December 1963 • 60 min
9. The Fire Raisers
Aired 11 December 1963 • 60 min
In 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?
10. Little Eyolf
Aired 18 December 1963 • 60 min
A 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.
11. The Comedy of Errors
Aired 1 January 1964 • 60 min
Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.
12. The Respectful Prostitute
Aired 8 January 1964 • 60 min
A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.
13. Lysistrata
Aired 15 January 1964 • 60 min
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.
14. August for the People
Aired 22 January 1964 • 60 min
Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?
15. Trevor
Aired 5 February 1964 • 60 min
16. The Lady of the Camellias
Aired 12 February 1964 • 60 min
An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.
17. Say Nothing
Aired 19 February 1964 • 60 min
18. The Master of Santiago
Aired 26 February 1964 • 60 min
19. Under Milk Wood
Aired 4 March 1964 • 60 min
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
20. A Florentine Tragedy
Aired 11 March 1964 • 60 min
21. The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?
Aired 18 March 1964 • 60 min
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.
22. Murder in the Cathedral
Aired 25 March 1964 • 60 min
T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
23. The Inner World of Miss Vaughan
Aired 1 April 1964 • 60 min
24. Ring Round the Moon
Aired 8 April 1964 • 60 min
Twin 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.
25. Justin Thyme
Aired 15 April 1964 • 60 min
Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.
26. John Bull's Other Island
Aired 22 April 1964 • 60 min
27. The Life of Galileo
Aired 29 April 1964 • 60 min
The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.
28. The Keep
Aired 6 May 1964 • 60 min
The 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?
29. Everyman
Aired 20 May 1964 • 60 min
30. Police
Aired 27 May 1964 • 60 min
In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.
31. Six Characters in Search of an Author
Aired 3 June 1964 • 60 min
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.
32. Bloomsday
Aired 10 June 1964 • 60 min
One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.