第二次世界大戦中のパリで、美貌の女優マリオンは亡命したと偽り劇場の地下に匿われた夫に演技指導を受けながら、その劇場を守っていた。しかし新人俳優ベルナールに惹かれていき……。
シュレックとフィオナは、沼のほとりの小屋には戻らず、遠い遠い王国で蛙の姿に戻り、病に伏せるハロルド国王の代理として騎士叙任や新造船の進水式、パーティへの出席に明け暮れる。面倒で慣れない行事に苦戦し、うんざりしていたシュレックだったが、フィオナの父であるハロルド国王の症状が悪化し、逝去してしまう。王位は自分に相応しくないと思ったシュレックは、ハロルド国王が言い残したもう一人の王位継承者、フィオナの従兄弟のアーサーを連れてくるべく、ドンキーとドラゴンの子供達や妊娠したフィオナに見送られ、ドンキーや長靴をはいた猫と旅に出る。
ロンドンの劇場で劇作家のジェームズ・バリは新作の『リトル・メアリー』の初日を迎えていた。しかし、観客の反応は芳しくなく、翌日の新聞でも、酷評されてしまう。失意の中で日課の散歩に出かけるジェームズ・バリは公園で父親を亡くしたショックから夢や希望を持てなくなっていた少年ピーターとその家族に出会う。ジェームズは、兄を亡くして早く大人になろうとした少年時代の自分をピーターに重ね、励ましていく。やがて彼らとの交流から着想を得たジェームズは、新しい劇に取りかかる。
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.
