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
Após a trágica e inesperada morte do seu pai, Ella (Lily James) fica à mercê da sua terrível madrasta, Lady Tremaine (Cate Blanchett), e suas filhas Anastasia e Drisella. A jovem ganha o apelido de Cinderela e é obrigada a trabalhar como empregada na sua própria casa, mas continua otimista com a vida. Passeando na floresta, ela se encanta por um corajoso estranho (Richard Madden), sem desconfiar que ele é o príncipe do castelo. Cinderela recebe um convite para o grande baile e acredita que pode voltar a encontrar sua alma gêmea, mas seus planos vão por água abaixo quando a madrasta má rasga seu vestido. Agora, será preciso uma fada madrinha (Helena Bonham Carter) para mudar o seu destino.
Nurse Scott
Vera Brittain, uma jovem mulher na Grã-Bretanha em 1914, conta como toda a sua geração foi consumida e irrevogavelmente alterada pela chegada da Primeira Guerra Mundial.
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.
