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"Through the Night ... a hospital provides the most pathetic spectacle of people being bullied into abandoning their free will ... a young woman who goes into hospital for what she believes to be a routine cancer test, and ... wakes up from the operating table to find she is minus a breast. It was not the necessity of removing the breast which was in question, but the unwillingness of the hospital staff to engage personally with a patient faced with,...
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Luigi Pirandello's modern classic, starring Andy Griffith in a brilliant departure from his television persona as a country sheriff, along with Academy Award winner John Houseman (The Paper Chase), is directed by Stacy Keach, who has transposed the play's traditional theatrical setting to a television studio. As a group of actors prepare for a rehearsal of a TV adaptation of another Pirandello play - The Rules of the Game - the television monitors...
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The Prince of Tyre is pursued by the vengeance of King Antiochus because he discovered the monarch's incestuous relationship with his daughter. Fleeing from place to place, Pericles is shipwrecked, courts, and marries Thaisa. Their child, Marina, raised by friends when Thaisa is believed to have died, is kidnapped by pirates and sold into a brothel before Thaisa is discovered alive and the family is joyfully reunited.
15) Antigone
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Antigone is perhaps the most easily accessible of all the great classical tragedies, its theme clear and up-to-date : the conflict between moral and political law. Now the tale of Oedipus and his family comes to its end - he, his wife Jocasta, his sons, and now, at the last, his daughter, all dead. Antigone is not the only victim in the play; Creon too comes to a tragic downfall - although he repents in time, bureaucratic ritual results in the deaths...
19) As you like it
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Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play, a pastoral romance set in the Forest of Arden in medieval France.
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After a shipwreck, twin siblings Viola and Sebastian wash up on the shores of Illyria. Viola, disguised as a man named Cesario, takes up service with the Duke Orsino, who is madly in love with the Lady Olivia. But Olivia is in mourning over her brother's death, so Orsino sends Cesario over as an emissary of love, except that Olivia falls for Viola!
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