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- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- A verse play about the conflict between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her arch-enemy, Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Trial by Jury, the complete operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, was aired within An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan (1962), then released separately on home media. For complete information, please see the link above. Note: This is only a "shell" episode for search.
- Pip, a poor orphan, meets a convict in a graveyard and is later taken to Satis House, where he meets the sinister Miss Havisham and also her ward Estella.
- Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
- Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
- Christopher Fry's verse drama of four prisoners in an imaginary war.
- When an old friend turns up unexpectedly, two young lovers are delighted. But he soon begins to exercise a sinister influence.
- Macbeth and his wife murder King Duncan to seize the throne of Scotland.
- The down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.
- Two short plays by Harold Pinter. In "The Collection", a woman wonders if her husband is homosexual. In "A Slight Ache", an elderly couple take in an itinerant match-seller.
- Abbie (Orenstein) is a disturbed girl stuck within an emotional labyrinth.
- A war and world weary soldier tries to talk a witch-hunting cleric into hanging him; he is shaken from his quest for death when the beautiful Jennet is also committed for hanging as a witch.
- Mrs. Dubedat loves and idolizes her artist husband, Louis, but he is dying of tuberculosis. She goes to a doctor and convinces him to save her husband. The doctor can keep only so many patients, and must choose who is worth saving, but is convinced that Louis' artistic talents make him worthy. But when he and several colleague meet Louis, they discover that he is in fact a smooth-talking money-grabbing scoundrel. They also learn that he has another wife, whom he has abandoned. So, the doctor has a problem: should he let Louis die, leaving Mrs. Dubedat with her idealized image, or save him and his artistic talents, but force her to face his bigamy and other flaws?
- A version of Ben Johnson's play: A swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends".
- A cheerful Irishman arrives in Canada in search of fortune - but he doesn't find it.
- In Ireland, a newly hired prison guard has to deal with the realities of prison work and to face the grim issue of death-row executions.
- A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
- When Vanya's brother-in-law declares his intention to sell the family's house, polite facades begin to crumble and long repressed feelings start to emerge with devastating consequences.
- When a fortune-teller informs Lord Arthur that he's soon to commit a murder, he elects to do it as soon as possible, to get it out of the way before his impending marriage.
- A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
- In line with the increasing tensions between the the USA and USSR of the time, this play depicts 1970 with England as a bombed out radioactive waste land. However a valley somehow remains free of radioactivity and this is where a woman and her two children survive by farming. Their idyllic bliss is interrupted by a patrol from the US who tell them that they are collecting them to take them to live in the USA in a special contamination zone as they are going to nuke that valley to stop the USSR offering the same and claiming the land. Their suggestion is met with little enthusiasm by the family who want to stay where they are.
- A sailor falls for the daughter of his captain, while being unaware of the love a young country girl holds for him.
- The great astronomer clashes with the Inquisition.
- The story of Joan of Arc, sometimes called "L'Alouette".
- Frederic was sent in the care of his nursemaid, Ruth, to be apprenticed to a pilot. But she misunderstood her instructions, being hard of hearing, and apprenticed him instead to the Pirate King.
- A Swedish immigrant gets into a card game at the Blue Hotel - and it might kill him.
- The tormented relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex.
- To hold onto his throne, King Magnus must resort to elaborate subterfuge.
- 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.
- In the jungle, during war, racial prejudice seems likely to destroy the teamwork of American soldiers.
- A charming handyman beguiles an old lady and her niece - who don't realize he's a murderer.
- A couple of one-act two-handers - in "The Zoo Story", a middle-class man is harangued by a stranger in the park, whilst in "The Dumb Waiter", two hit-men waiting for their target are disorientated by mysterious messages.
- Two strangers arrive at the home of a wealthy business man and persuade him to give them shelter. He begins to suspect that they are behind the recent outbreak of arson attacks in the region.
- A loving family's world is shattered by an old friend's arrival, carrying a dark secret.
- A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.
- Miss Julie's relationship with her manservant Jean becomes extremely intense.
- Sir Robert Chiltern is integrity incarnate - but the unscrupulous Mrs. Cheveley knows his guilty secret.
- The Hallet's maid, Kate, over idolizes the family she works for and her mama as "Saints" and she fails to see their flaws. Kate also slightly over steps her role as a maid and the Hallets come to depend on her slightly too much. Things start to change when attention starved Mama arrives for an over night visit when she has a slight accident that triggers an psychosomatic illness that causes the stay to extend into weeks and forces Kate to decide whether to ether care for Mama or the Hallets.
- Yerma wants a child but with her dispassionate husband has failed to conceive. On the other hand, Victor courts her but the sense of caste and honor prevent from surrendering to him.
- 1960–1969TV Episode
- Two derelicts, Vladimir and Estragon, occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.
- The son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian.
- 1960–1969TV Episode
- Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.
- During the Irish Civil War, a matriarch scolds her continually unemployed husband, worries about her brooding injured son, and hopes for her daughter's marriage and the prospect of a sudden inheritance.
- Is it the wife who wants to kill the husband, or the husband who wants to kill the wife?