Festival - Season 1

1. Fallen Angels

Aired: 10/9/1963

Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.

2. The Duel

Aired: 10/16/1963

3. I Want to Go Home

Aired: 10/23/1963

4. Stephen D

Aired: 10/30/1963

Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.

5. The Human Voice

Aired: 11/6/1963

During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.

6. Krapp's Last Tape

Aired: 11/13/1963

On Krapp's 69th birthday he reviews a tape recording he made the year he was 39 and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months.

7. The Bald Prima Donna

Aired: 11/27/1963

There is no prima donna in this play, and if there was one, she wouldn't be bald. Apart from that, what could be more normal?

8. Stalingrad

Aired: 12/4/1963

9. The Fire Raisers

Aired: 12/11/1963

In an area plagued by mysterious outbursts of arson, two strangers arrive and inveigle their way into the home of a wealthy bourgeois businessman. Are they the fire raisers? Surely they can't be - can they?

10. Little Eyolf

Aired: 12/18/1963

A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.

11. The Comedy of Errors

Aired: 1/1/1964

Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.

12. The Respectful Prostitute

Aired: 1/8/1964

A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.

13. Lysistrata

Aired: 1/15/1964

A version of Aristophane's play: Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.

14. August for the People

Aired: 1/22/1964

Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?

15. Trevor

Aired: 2/5/1964

16. The Lady of the Camellias

Aired: 2/12/1964

An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.

17. Say Nothing

Aired: 2/19/1964

18. The Master of Santiago

Aired: 2/26/1964

19. Under Milk Wood

Aired: 3/4/1964

One night while the townsfolk wrestle with their dreams, seedy Captain Cat and a stranger walk the streets. Captain Cat is a blind, retired sea captain, recalling memories of drowned shipmates and Rosie Probert, a whore and the one great love of his youth

20. A Florentine Tragedy

Aired: 3/11/1964

21. The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?

Aired: 3/18/1964

Denis Johnston's first play took Dublin by storm and laid the foundation of the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre. It takes place in the mind of an actor who is playing the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet in a traditional patriotic drama. The actor is knocked unconscious by accident and in his reverie he imagines he is Emmet walking the streets of present-day Dublin, confronting the jarring contrast between the myth of Ireland and modern day reality.

22. Murder in the Cathedral

Aired: 3/25/1964

T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.

23. The Inner World of Miss Vaughan

Aired: 4/1/1964

24. Ring Round the Moon

Aired: 4/8/1964

Twin brothers with very different personalities are in conflict over the love of a less than worthy woman. One brother comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.

25. Justin Thyme

Aired: 4/15/1964

Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.

26. John Bull's Other Island

Aired: 4/22/1964

27. The Life of Galileo

Aired: 4/29/1964

The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.

28. The Keep

Aired: 5/6/1964

The memory of a revered and long-dead mother binds together a Welsh family, and also prevents any of its members from having a full life. But is she really dead?

29. Everyman

Aired: 5/20/1964

30. Police

Aired: 5/27/1964

In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.

31. Six Characters in Search of an Author

Aired: 6/3/1964

An absurdist play about the relationship between authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners. In it, the actors, author, and crew interact with the "real characters" who appear on stage during the rehearsal of the play.

32. Bloomsday

Aired: 6/10/1964

One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.