Henry VI: House of York
Second part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.
Second part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.
Ben Bazell
William Stafford
Roger Booth
Father
Philip Bowen
Edward, Earl of March
Paul Brennen
King Henry VI
Ian Burford
King of France
Jack Carr
Dick the Butcher
Michael Cronin
Earl of Warwick
Charles Dale
Young Clifford
John Darrell
Lord Rivers
Second part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.
Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.