Stuart Burge

A series of monologues.

David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that she's in love with David and wants to change his life for ever. Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play.

A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

Kenny's work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital isn't just a job, it's a vocation. His special group of patients are his friends - his only friends. When a strange young man is introduced to the group, he threatens the love, discipline and respect that have been the very basis of Kenny's authority, and all that surrounds the institution is scant protection from the madness of the world beyond.

Writer Alan Bennett visits a hotel in the north of England, observes the guests, and reminisces about his experiences of staying in boarding-houses as a child.

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.

Что произойдет, если два блистательных британских джентльмена от скуки затеют рискованную и непредсказуемую игру в псевдонимы? Как, например, неотразимый Джек, заботливый опекун юной Сесили, приезжающий в Лондон, чтобы под именем Эрнест сделать предложение аристократке Гвендолин, и неутомимый ловкач Олги, предлагающий руку и сердце провинциалке Сесили также под именем Эрнест. Подобные забавы не проходят безнаказанно — скоро Гвендолин и Сесили узнают, что к ним сватается один и тот же мужчина! Назревает жуткий скандал, и теперь влюбленным ловеласам придется понять, как всё-таки важно хоть иногда быть серьезным…

A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.

Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on. But unknown to all, Claudio's been tricked by the bastard Don John, and (unfortunately), it's up to Dogberry and Verges to solve the case.

2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they have committed, some seemingly innocuous by today’s standards… at least, at first.

Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...

An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.

The original play by Christopher Hampton, was adapted into this made-for-TV movie and it offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict among its privileged characters.

Фильм повествует о жизни великого Римского Императора Юлия Цезаря. Но это не просто эпитафия знаменитому оратору, политику, военачальнику и диктатору Великой Римской Империи. Это трагедия мужчины, пережившего смерть любимой женщины и трагедия Императора. Пожертвовавшего любовью египетской царицы Клеопатры ради могущества своей страны.

An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.

In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a strolling minstrel who loves the beautiful Yum-Yum. But Yum-Yum is also loved by Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo, seeing no hope for his love, considers suicide. Ko-Ko offers to solve both their problems by executing Nanki-Poo, and an agreement is reached whereby Ko-Ko will allow Nanki-Poo to marry Yum-Yum for one month, at the end of which Nanki-Poo will be executed, in time for the arrival of the Mikado. But what Ko-Ko doesn't know is that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado and has run away to avoid a betrothal to an old harridan named Katisha. The arrival of the Mikado brings all the threads of the tale together.

Дездемона бросает вызов своему отцу, выйдя замуж за венецианского мавра, могущественного воин Отелло. Но старый Яго, не терпящий Отелло, настроен сразить его коварным обманом и поставить под сомнение верность Дездемоны.

Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."

Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.

These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when his client confesses to killing his wife. In "What Shall We Tell Caroline?" a father with good intentions tries to protect his wife and daughter from the bad things in life.

Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come.

В Англии неудалой мошенник, бывший подрывник, отбывающий за чужие и собственные грехи срок - досрочно освобожден, и попадает на производство, где понимает - здесь всё прогнило, особенно хозяева. Обещает - будет всё иначе...

Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.

In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.