Durante a ocupação de Paris pelas tropas alemãs, um grupo de atores tenta fazer uma peça de teatro. Ninguém suspeita que no porão do prédio está escondido o diretor do grupo, um homem de origem judaica.
Quando Shrek se casou com Fiona a última coisa que estava nos seus planos era tornar-se Rei. Mas quando o seu sogro morre, o ogre vê-se na iminência de ficar com o trono. Sentindo-se pouco adequado para reinar, parte em busca de Artur, um primo distante de Fiona que pode ser a alternativa na sucessão. Porém, enquanto ele viaja em busca de um novo rei, há forças maléficas em movimento, dispostas a ameaçar Shrek e Fiona, bem mais perto do que eles imaginam.
J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) é um bem-sucedido autor de peças teatrais, que apesar da fama que possui está enfrentando problemas com seu trabalho mais recente, que não foi bem recebido pelo público. Em busca de inspiração para uma nova peça, Barrie a encontra ao fazer sua caminhada diária pelos jardins Kensington, em Londres. É lá que ele conhece a família Davies, formada por Sylvia (Kate Winslet), que enviuvou recentemente, e seus quatro filhos. Barrie logo se torna amigo da família, ensinando às crianças alguns truques e criando histórias fantásticas para eles, envolvendo castelos, reis, piratas, vaqueiros e naufrágios. Inspirado por esta convivência, Barrie cria seu trabalho de maior sucesso: Peter Pan.
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.
