About this season
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
Episodes (5)
1. Company
Aired 1 March 1997 • 139 min
At his 35th birthday party Bobby's friends are all wondering: Why isn't he married? Why can't he find the right woman and settle down?
2. My Night with Reg
Aired 15 March 1997 • 105 min
A group of English gay men get together to reminisce. They are all coming from a wake for one of their circle who's died of AIDS. It's that terrifying time between the outbreak of AIDS and the development of an AIDS test and as the conversation unfolds it becomes apparent that each man there has had unprotected sex with the deceased.
3. Richard II
Aired 22 March 1997 • 132 min
The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.
4. Broken Glass
Aired 29 March 1997 • 97 min
A Jewish housewife in 1938 Brooklyn loses the use of her legs after reading about Kristallnacht.
5. Macbeth on the Estate
Aired 5 April 1997 • 83 min
Shakespeare's play updated to the present day. On a council estate where people survive by dealing drugs and shoplifting, Duncan is the Godfather. Urged by Mrs Macbeth, Macbeth kills Duncan.