The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.
여자가 살아있는 한, 로맨스는 영원하다~ 오랫동안 잔잔했던 그녀들의 가슴이 떨리기 시작합니다! 영국의 작은 해안가 마을에서 자넷과 우슐라 자매는 조용하고 평화롭게 황혼의 하루 하루를 보내고 있다. 거대한 폭풍이 지나간 어느 날, 두 자매는 바닷가에서 정신을 잃고 쓰러진 젊은 청년을 발견하고 정성 어린 간호로 그를 돌본다. 안드레아라는 이름을 가진 그는 폴란드 출신의 바이올리니스트! 영어를 할 줄 모르는 그를 돌보며 지루했던 두 자매의 일상에는 오랜만에 생기가 돈다. 그리고 왠지 모를 묘한 감정에 사로잡힌 우슐라는 처음 가져보는 설렘이 두렵지만 행복하다. 그러나 기억을 잃었던 안드레아가 바이올린 연주를 통해 조금씩 기억을 회복하면서 영원할 것 같던 그녀들의 행복이 흔들리기 시작한다. 너무도 오랫동안 잊고 있던 심장의 두근거림을 느끼게 된 그녀들. 지금 이 마음이 사랑이라면, 너무 늦은 것일까?
A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens to make this tale truly Japanese in character.
Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant boy — a creature with the mind of a child and superhuman strength. But the reporter finds out the hard way that nothing, and nobody, can stand in the way of progress. (Re-titled for its American VHS release, "Monkey Boy" is an abbreviated film version of Lawrence Gordon Clark's 1991 mini-series "Chimera".)
his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.
Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways: The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a rusting hulk called Atlantis.
