Desmond Barrit

Jonathan Kent's spectacular production of Purcell's huge semi-opera is joyous, imaginative and witty. Glyndebourne, with its intimate auditorium, provides the perfect setting for the drama which is partly spoken and partly sun. Based on an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream,

1부 줄거리 10명이나 되는 형제 속에서 예쁘게 자라난 캐서린. 책 읽기를 좋아하는 캐서린은 늘 책 속의 이야기로 상상의 나래를 펼치곤 한다. 한 번도 집을 떠나본 적이 없는 캐서린은 앨런 부부의 초대로 바스에 머무르게 된다. 앨런 부부와 함께 참석한 연회에서 우연히 만나게 된 헨리 틸니. 헨리와 춤을 추게 된 캐서린은 두근거리는 마음을 그녀의 일기장에 담는다. 한편 동갑내기 이자벨라를 사귀면서 둘은 단짝 친구가 된다. 그리고 이자벨라의 오빠 존도 캐서린을 좋아하게 되고 어느덧 캐서린은 두 남자의 사랑을 받게 된다. 2부 줄거리 헨리의 아버지인 틸니 장군은 캐서린을 자신의 고성인 노생거 사원으로 초대한다. 무언가 비밀을 숨기고 있는 듯한 그곳에서 캐서린은 틸니의 어머니의 죽음에 대해 의혹을 품는다. 어머니의 죽음에 대한 캐서린의 호기심과 지나친 상상력으로 헨리는 분노를 폭발하고, 그날 밤 틸니 장군에 의해 캐서린은 노생거 사원에서 쫓겨나게 된다. 집으로 돌아온 캐서린은 진정 사랑한 헨리에게 버림받았다는 슬픔에 어쩔 줄을 모른다. 그때 그녀에게 달려온 헨리. 아버지의 무뢰를 사과하고 자신에게는 오직 캐서린 밖에 없음을 고백한다. 그리고 자신과 결혼해달라는 그의 청혼을 행복한 입맞춤으로써 허락한다.

Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840s London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?

A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading the the bedtime story to her daughter. Walking through the Looking Glass, Alice finds herself in Chessland, a magical and fun world. There she meets the Red and White Queens, as well as many other amusing friends on her journey across the chessboard countryside onto become a crowned queen.

In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist. By chance, living close to the camp is Jacques's grandfather and brother, whom Jacques believes died years before. Jacques decides to escape, find his relatives, and win the hand of Flora; Major Chevening and an unforeseen enemy stand in his way. Can Miss Gilcrist contrive to make everything work out?

A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A small boy dreams the play, which unfolds in a surreal landscape of umbrellas and lightbulbs.

An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.

Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.

Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.