Durante la ocupación de París por las tropas alemanas, un grupo de actores trata de sacar adelante una obra de teatro. Nadie sospecha que, en el sótano del edificio, se oculta el director del grupo, un hombre de origen judío que desde su escondrijo dirige la obra a través de las indicaciones que da a su mujer, que es la protagonista.
Shrek se casó con Fiona, pero lo que no tuvo en cuenta es que al casarse con una princesa... tarde o temprano uno termina siendo rey. Cuando su suegro, el Rey Harold, cae enfermo, Shrek se encuentra en riesgo de tener que abandonar su amado pantano por el trono. A menos claro que encuentre un heredero. Junto con Asno y el Gato con Botas, Shrek viaja para en busca del primo de Fiona, Arturo. Mientras, en Muy Muy Lejano, el Principe Encantador recluta un ejército de villanos de cuento para tomar el trono por la fuerza. Pero no cuentan con que Fiona y la Reina Lillian también han reunido su grupo de heroínas de cuento para hacerles frente...
Basada en la vida de James Barrie, el autor "Peter Pan". La historia comienza en Londres en 1904 y muestra el proceso que desembocó en la creación de Peter Pan, desde que a Barrie se le ocurrió la idea hasta el estreno de la obra en el teatro Duke de Nueva York, una noche en la que no sólo cambió la vida del autor, sino la de todos los que estaban con él.
How to be a father
Twenty male inmates in a Kentucky prison form an unlikely Shakespearean acting troupe.
Luca Cupiello lives with the wife Concetta, the son Tommasino, and a brother, Pasquale. The son is wild, living by gimmicks and stealing from his uncle; the daughter Ninuccia does not get along with her husband Nicolino and plans to run away with her lover Vittorio; the wife tries to hide her family's troubles from her husband. Luca, who silently suffers the family situation, takes refuge in setting up the Nativity scene.
Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright and director, and his theatrical company, Seinendan. By depicting them, the film leads the audience to revisit fundamental but timely questions: What is theatre? Why do human beings act?
Oriza Hirata is Japan's leading playwright and director, who runs his own theatrical company, Seinendan. Theatre 2 (Observational Film Series #4) examines the dynamic relationship between theatre and the society through depicting Hirata's activities. In order for his art and his not-so-commercial company to survive this highly capitalistic modern society, what kind of strategy does Hirata have and practice?
Growing up is hard to do for young chat-room enthusiast Mi Wei, who strikes up an online friendship with a most unlikely buddy: Cappuccino, aka Mi Wei's mom. The misunderstanding drives Mi Wei to leave home. Meanwhile, Mi Wei struggles gamely through middle school, navigating relationships with teachers and classmates. A bittersweet portrait of adolescence emerges in this moving Chinese stage drama.
Ravi, a critic, comes across the writings of K T N Kottoor. Highly inspired by what he reads, he travels to a village in Kerala in search of the author.
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
The two best disciples of Sivadas Swamigal, the earnest owner of a Drama school, are by design pitted against each other by the guru himself and this create multiple calamities ending in the duo's separation. Years pass by as one finds a good holding and the other wobbles away as a drunk loser only for them to cross paths again when the ongoing Indian Independence Movement gives another chance for the tables to turn!
The "ceilidh play", as writer John McGrath styled it, is presented in the BBC's 1974 "Play for Today" production to a live audience intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags. Restored in high definition from the original film masters held in the BBC Archives.
