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Brenda Blethyn, Lesley Manville and Phil Davis star in this special Mike Leigh collection, featuring the iconic hit Abigail’s Party and a banned play from the BBC archives One of Britain's most prolific and influential writers, Mike Leigh has directed some of the best British films of the last...

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam return as the loving, long-married couple, in the seventh series of Jan Etherington’s award-winning comedy ‘Beautifully written’ Observer Joanna and Roger have weathered a few storms in their 40-year marriage, but their passion for each other hasn’t dimmed...

Five fantastical tales, each with a magical twist Discover a lady with a taste for immortality, a man who becomes a dragon, a man-eating witch and a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Perfect for fans of fantasy, these epic tales are packed with magical elements, fantastical creatures...

Four plays by the award-winning Italian playwright and innovator Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer and winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. In the first performance of Six Characters in Search of an Author, an enraged Rome...

इस पुस्तक में एक ओर जहाँ आचार्य चतुरसेन शास्त्री के रोचक संस्मरण और प्रेरक प्रसंग हैं, वहीं उनके ऐतिहासिक...

Ten contemporary reimaginings of Ovid’s iconic tales, with star-studded casts including Toby Jones, Shaun Dooley and Robert Glenister The Roman love poet Ovid has influenced writers past and present, with his witty, sexy tales inspiring authors from Shakespeare to Ezra Pound. Included here are...

एक आपस में लड़ते झगड़ते माँ-बाप की संतान अमर हम्सा एक पुराने ढहते और गिरते हुए मकान में पलता-बढ़ता है जिसे बंगलो...

An anthology of plays and original radio dramas from the prolific playwright Born and brought up in the East End of London, Bernard Kops came to fame in the late 1950s as part of British drama’s ‘New Wave’. A lyrical chronicler of Jewish family life, he is often compared to Arnold Wesker...

A collection of dramas by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Mamet A novelist, playwright, filmmaker and director, David Mamet ranks among America’s most famous living writers. He has penned more than 40 stage plays and over 20 screenplays, won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize...

When the world drowns and there is no land left to stand on — where do you go? Welcome to No Place But the Water, a haunting, full-cast drama set in a future flooded world. It begins at a hotel on the edge of the water, and with a messy family of dreamers in the middle of nowhere: their last...

A superb selection of Emlyn Williams’ finest plays Emlyn Williams was one of the brightest stars of Welsh stage and screen. An acclaimed playwright, actor and director, he made over 40 film and TV appearances, re-invented the one-man show with his virtuoso portrayals of Charles Dickens and...

Four satirical spoof shows from the multi-award-winning Patrick Barlow The National Theatre of Brent is a two-man company founded in 1980 and led by Patrick Barlow as his comic alter ego, Artistic Director and Chief Executive Desmond Olivier Dingle. Helping him to realise his enormously...

La historia transcurre en un hotel de provincias, la noche en la que se hospeda en él Dionisio, su protagonista, a la espera de su boda, que se celebrará al día siguiente. En el intervalo de esas horas conoce a Paula, joven bailarina de una compañía que pasa por la ciudad. Paula y la...

Ambientada en una zona rural, se centra en las vivencias de una familia desolada por la muerte de Angélica, una de las hijas. La madre no ha podido superar la desaparición de la joven y ello afecta al día a día del resto de los hijos y del Abuelo. Un día aparece por la casa una Peregrina...

Cinco antiguas amigas de un internado vuelven a reunirse quince años después de su graduación. Ahora son mujeres muy bellas de treinta años con buena posición social. Tres de ellas se han casado y las otras dos solteras han logrado por méritos propios un envidiable status: una como...

En una pequeña ciudad de España llamada Villalgancio, un partido político y su alcalde Acilso Arrambla llevan más de treinta años ejerciendo el caciquismo y la corrupción. Se les notifica la llegada de un inspector del gobierno, que debe analizar sus cuentas. El alcalde se propone comprar...