The Shaw Festival: Behind the Curtain (2013)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 56M
Sinopsis
From PBS - With unprecedented access, The Shaw Festival: Behind the Curtain captures the unique creative process of one of North America's longest running, most distinctive and exciting theatre experiences. Each year between April and October, the Shaw Festival--which began in 1962 with the mandate on works by George Bernard Shaw--presents around 10 plays on four stages that attract patrons from all over the world. Located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada--the Shaw's one-of-a-kind schedule has actors and directors working on several plays at once. Over eight months, crews design and build sets on a finely honed schedule that is both frenetic, creative, and amazingly well planned and executed. Follow the process of getting the play from the page to the stage as The Shaw Festival: Behind the Curtain provides insight into every aspect of production at a summer theatre festival.
En la cúspide de su cumpleaños número 30, un joven y prometedor compositor de teatro navega por el amor, la amistad y las presiones de la vida como artista en la ciudad de Nueva York.
Joe Harper es un actor en paro en el que sólo parece confiar su estrafalaria agente Margaretta D'Arcy. Joe decide montar una representación teatral navideña de "Hamlet", su obra favorita, pero los actores son bastante mediocres, y las tres semanas de preparación de la obra constituirán toda una aventura. (FILMAFFINITY)
In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has invited the new professor and his wife to their home for some after-party drinks. As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple are drawn into George and Martha’s toxic games until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling.
Five minutes before his big performance, the Maestro and his persistent mechanical assistant are getting ready. As the clock ticks, life at the top is not all it seems.
As their bodies give way to Parkinson's disease, two New York actors put their hearts into one final Off-Broadway production of Beckett's "Endgame," the play that posits, "there's nothing funnier than unhappiness."
A joyful insight into the creative world of Barry and Joan Grantham, two British eccentrics who have kept the skills of vaudeville alive for over seventy years. Since becoming stage-struck lovers in 1948, Barry and Joan have taught, danced and acted alongside the greats of British film and theatre. They are the last of the golden generation of vaudeville, eager to pass their legacy on to future generations.
Hans Funk, ayudante del alcalde, tiene aficiones literarias. Escribe una obra que es rechazada por los directores de teatros. Su novia, que confía en su talento, manda la obra a Viggo Reyner, director del Teatro Apollón, quien al ver a la joven se propone chantajearla.
A rustic comedy about a small-town bowling alley entrepreneur who learns that being scammed is not the end of the world.
An intimate and heartfelt peek into a day in the life of a modern witch, Delphine, who is pulling tarot for the guidance of her clients in their shaky human moments.
It all begins in an empty theatre. In search of a manuscript that is supposed to change the world, Ben embarks on an odyssey. He encounters a flying fish, a telephone without a dial, an oracle called Enigma and a mystical canine figure in a deserted mountain landscape – reality and longings become inextricably intertwined on his visually stunning journey.
Esta es la historia de mi abuelo, Tiago Florit, que durante 50 años fue operador cinematográfico en el Teatro Principal de Mahón, Menorca. Es un repaso de su vida, desde su nacimiento hasta su muerte, en clave cinematográfica. Una verdadera historia de amor al cine.
From PBS - With unprecedented access, The Shaw Festival: Behind the Curtain captures the unique creative process of one of North America's longest running, most distinctive and exciting theatre experiences. Each year between April and October, the Shaw Festival--which began in 1962 with the mandate on works by George Bernard Shaw--presents around 10 plays on four stages that attract patrons from all over the world. Located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada--the Shaw's one-of-a-kind schedule has actors and directors working on several plays at once. Over eight months, crews design and build sets on a finely honed schedule that is both frenetic, creative, and amazingly well planned and executed. Follow the process of getting the play from the page to the stage as The Shaw Festival: Behind the Curtain provides insight into every aspect of production at a summer theatre festival.
Movie of the stage play McQueen (written by British playwright James Phillips), at the St James Theatre, London, in May 2015 Featuring: Stephen Wight as Lee Dianna Agron as Dahlia, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Laura Lees and David Shaw-Parker
Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne - an emigrant Irishman with the outsider's ability to observe, needle and puncture.
The true story of the famed British actor David Garrick and his love for Ada Ingot.
Although the past two years have been challenging for the Theatre industry, they also showed its incredible strength and resilience. Through interviews with West End performers and creatives, this documentary outlines the difficulties presented to our industry over the course of the pandemic, as well as highlighting changes - both positive and negative - that have come from it. An emotional reflection on a battle it was worth fighting for. All profits will be going to 'Acting for Others', an organisation that provides support to all theatre workers through 14 member charities. We hope these stories full of passion for Theatre inspire you just as much as they inspired us!
A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by Müller himself. "Cinema watches Death at work." Wilson's actors watch Molière die: their vigil is hard work. Müller's comment: "The poem watches a dying man at work, his name is Molière. The poem is not a film. The film watches an actor playing a dying man called Molière."
La fuga acompaña el viaje interno de ocho hombres, que a través de un taller de teatro van transitando por las diferentes prisiones que habitan. Practicando el arte de verse viéndose, en palabras de Boal, este grupo de hombres reflexiona sobre su masculinidad como una representación para ocultar su verdadera fortaleza: su vulnerabilidad.
