Trania
Live from Stratford-upon-Avon. The Royal Shakespeare Company presents The Taming of the Shrew. Turning Shakespeare’s fierce, energetic comedy of gender and materialism on its head to offer a fresh perspective on its portrayal of hierarchy and power.
Phoebe
Live from Stratford-upon-Avon. The Royal Shakespeare Company presents As You Like It.
Christine Smallbone
Maxine Peake's exploration of the true story of Lillian Bilocca, a largely forgotten but formidable figure in the fight for safer trawlers. The programme explores Lillian Bilocca's fight at the time through archive and dramatic reconstructions based on the play The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca, written by Maxine Peake.
Hermia
Fairies, magic, celebration and comical confusion! Join Swashbuckle's Cook and Line as they help William Shakespeare put together a magical production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Filmed at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, the production features lots of CBeebies favourites, including Justin Fletcher as Nick Bottom - the star of the play within a play who undergoes a magical transformation! Whoever heard of a talking and singing donkey? English
Slipper Lady
Cuenta las andanzas de Ella, una joven cuyo padre, un comerciante, vuelve a casarse tras enviudar. Para agradar a su padre, acoge con cariño a su madrastra y a sus hijas en la casa familiar. Pero, cuando su padre muere inesperadamente, la joven queda a merced de unas mujeres celosas y malvadas que la convierten en sirvienta y la relegan a la cocina. Pero, a pesar de la crueldad con la que la tratan, está dispuesta a cumplir las últimas palabras de su madre que le dijo que debía "ser valiente y amable".
Nurse Scott
Una mujer británica recuerda su juventud durante la Primera Guerra Mundial en este relato autobiográfico de Vera Brittain, ambientado entre 1913 y 1925, ya adaptado para la televisión por la BBC en los años setenta. Justo tras el estallido de la I Guerra Mundial, la joven Vera duda entre sus estudios en Oxford o convertirse en enfermera para ayudar a los heridos en el frente.
Weird Sister
National Theatre Live will broadcast Manchester International Festival’s electrifying production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn, Hamlet) in his first Shakespeare performance in over a decade as Macbeth, and Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, ER) as Lady Macbeth. Directed by Olivier and Tony Award-winner Rob Ashford (Anna Christie at the Donmar Warehouse, Thoroughly Modern Millie on Broadway) and BAFTA Award-winner Kenneth Branagh, this unique production of Shakespeare’s tragic tale of ambition and treachery unfolds within the walls of an intimate deconsecrated Manchester church.
