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
貿易商を営む父親が再婚し、継母とその連れ子である姉妹ドリゼラとアナスタシアと暮らすことになったエラ(リリー・ジェームズ)。だが、父親が不慮の事故で命を落とし、それを機に継母と義理の姉妹からつらく当たられ、召使いのように扱われる毎日を送る。勇気と優しさが魔法の力になるという亡き母の教えを胸にひどい仕打ちに耐えてきたエラだったが、ついにこらえきれずに家を飛び出してしまう。森へと馬を走らせた彼女は、城で働いているという青年キット(リチャード・マッデン)と出会い、心惹(ひ)かれるが……。
Nurse Scott
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
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.