Showing results for "Winter" in Drama & Plays

A mysterious plague ushers in an intergalactic war that ravages the galaxy for decades. A soldier and a pilot are tasked to deliver a package. A messenger and a refugee decide to work together on a dying alien planet. A love letter is lost that could be the key to a new future. A dark comedy about the messages we carry in our bones.

Women Talking: An Evening of Wild Female Imagination features three new works from playwrights Sandra Delgado, ruth tang, and Brittany Allen. Inspired by the film and its themes, the playwrights explored the choice the women need to make as a community: Do nothing. Stay and fight. Leave.

An epic new fantasy romance from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author C. L. Wilson After three long years of war, starkly handsome Wynter Atrialan will have his vengeance on Summerlea's king by taking one of the man's beautiful, beloved daughters as his bride. But though peace is...

“A beautifully observed and thrillingly honest novel about the dark corners of family life and the long, complicated search for understanding and grace.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather “The Fourth Child is keen and beautiful and heartbreaking—an exploration...

Eve Best, Danny Sapani and Shaun Dooley star in this modern, riveting and magical production of The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale treads new dramatic ground embracing tragedy, poetry, folklore, magic realism, music, comedy and the infamous stage direction 'exit pursued by a bear'. One of Shakespeare's mesmerising later productions, it is often considered a 'problem play' as it starts with a tragedy and ends in a romance.

Believing his wife, Hermione, to be unfaithful, King Leontes of Sicilia, orders her new-born child abandoned in the wilderness. But when Hermione’s fidelity is proven by the divinations of the Oracle of Delphi, Leontes is cursed to have no heir until his daughter is found. Sixteen years later...

One year after solving the murder of Evelyn Porter, Detective Jack Rourke finds himself drawn into another sinister holiday mystery when sixteen-year-old Emma Bradley vanishes during Cedar Hollow's Winter Festival. Emma's disappearance leads to the discovery of a decades-old conspiracy involving the town's most prominent families and a shadowy organization called the Heritage Foundation. As Rourke races to save Emma, he uncovers the truth about Cedar Hollow's perfect facade – and the terrible price paid to maintain it. With help from Sarah Porter and a network of secret allies, Rourke must ...

King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events that lead to death, a ferocious bear, an infant left in the snow, young love, and a statue coming to life. Sir John Gielgud and Dame Peggy Ashcroft lead a cast recording of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

At the opening of this late Shakespearean drama, Polixenes, the king of Bohemia, has been the longtime guest of Leontes and Hermione, the king and queen of Sicily. When the time comes for Polixenes to leave, Leontes urges him to stay longer. At first Polixenes refuses, but soon he yields to the entreaties of Hermione. His rapid change of mind convinces Leontes that the two are lovers and that Polixenes is the father of Hermione's unborn child.

Leontes, suspecting his wife's infidelity, imprisons her and exiles her infant daughter to a faraway island. Years later, his wife, presumed dead, is returned to him as a statue.

Radiospektakl' "Zimnjaja skazka" po odnoimennoj p'ese Uil'jama Shekspira. Leont, korol' Sicilii, podozrevaet svoju beremennuju zhenu Germionu v izmene s ego drugom Poliksenom, korolem Bogemii. On prikazyvaet svoemu priblizhjonnomu Kamillo otravit' Poliksena, kak raz nahodjashhegosja s vizitom na Sicilii; Kamillo obeshhaet vypolnit' prikaz, no potom.

King Leontes of Sicilia is seized by sudden and terrible jealousy of his wife Hermione, whom he accuses of adultery. He believes the child Hermione is bearing was fathered by his friend Polixenes, and when the baby girl is born he orders her to be taken to some wild place and left to die. Though Hermione's child escapes death, Leontes' cruelty has terrible consequences. Loss paves the way for reunion, and life and hope are born out of desolation and despair.

Ghosts & Winter is a dystopian thriller narrative podcast.The future of a world not far from our own is darkened by the looming shadow of the ruling Coalition.In a city embroiled in conflict and fractured between dwindling haves and overwhelmed have-nots, the safest thing you can be is invisible.​Virgil, a black market doctor, along with his assistant, Lerina, works hard for his anonymity; doing his best to stay neutral while struggling to do right by too many wronged.​But, after stumbling across a runaway child, the pair are dragged into the heart of turmoil and the crosshairs of ...

An original drama spotlighting The Three Musketeers' iconic antagonist, Milady de Winter Young, beautiful and courageous, Milady de Winter is a cunning spy, talented thief, and ruthless killer. She glides with ease through the streets and gilded halls of 17th-century France and England, turning...

Join Head Witch Minerva Winters in "Minerva's Magical Musings," a bewitching podcast that unveils the mystical tapestry of New York City's supernatural underbelly. From thrilling adventures to sage advice on spells and enchantments, Minerva takes you on a spellbinding journey through the unseen realms. Beware, troublemakers—Minerva's magic is real, and misbehavior may result in an unexpected transformation. Delve into a world where every corner holds secrets, and let Minerva be your guide to the enchanted unknown. Stay curious, stay enchanted, and embrace the magic within and around you.

Insecure siblings fighting for their parents' attention; bickering spouses who can't stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman's classic play The Lion in Winter, domestic turmoil rises to an art form.

When Bolsover orphan Samuel discovers the magic lantern his Father left him can transport him to a magical world called Lumina, he has the best winter ever. As the Ice Queen, becomes upset by the warmth and joy that the lantern gives out, she decides to freeze the whole town over. Making it one of the worse winters anyone has experienced. Can Samuel with the help of his friend Nancy defeat the Ice Queen? Will the town thaw in time for Christmas or will all the coal supplies run out?

In the city of Glidehaste, a supernatural hunting organization known as Colossal has issued a nationwide man-hunt for Darwin Frost, a mysterious and ancient vampire who has emerged from the shadows to unleash chaos upon the unsuspecting populace. With a 200-year-old legacy and ominous powers, Frost proves to be a formidable adversary for Colossal, pushing the organization to its limits as they attempt to bring him to justice.As the story unfolds, a failed mission serves as a catalyst, leading the hunters down a twisted path of revelations. Secrets hidden for centuries begin to surface, and the...

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