Discover
Original Release
01/29/1984
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Ronald Harwood | Self - Presenter |
| Ian Saynor | Quotations Reader / English Excerpt: The Seagull / Extracts: A Month in the Country; The Playboy of the Western World; The Plough and the Stars / Extracts: The Haunted House / Extract: The Harrowing of Hell |
| Peter Gale | Quotations Reader |
| Peter Hall | Self - Director, National Theatre |
| James Hall | Extract from Bussy D'Ambois / Extract from Black-Ey'd Susan |
| Judith Paris | Extract from Le Cid / Extracts from The Versailles Impromptu; The Critique of the School for Wives; Tartuffe |
| Carl Forgione | Quotations Speaker / Extracts from The Lulu Plays / Extract from The Changeling |
| Christopher Timothy | Extract from Woyzeck / Excerpts: The 1980 York Cycle of Mystery Plays |
| Ann Payot | Extracts from A Doll's House / Extract from The Changeling |
| Brian Tully | Extract from Woyzeck / Extract from Bussy D'Ambois |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prologue: Makers of Magic | Sunday, 29 January 1984 |
| 2 | Enter Dionysus | Sunday, 05 February 1984 |
| 3 | Now Comes My Comedy | Sunday, 12 February 1984 |
| 4 | Mysteries | Sunday, 19 February 1984 |
| 5 | A Muse of Fire | Sunday, 26 February 1984 |
| 6 | Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On | Sunday, 04 March 1984 |
| 7 | The Vices of Mankind | Sunday, 11 March 1984 |
| 8 | Silk Stockings and White Bosoms | Sunday, 18 March 1984 |
| 9 | A World Turned Upside-Down | Sunday, 25 March 1984 |
| 10 | The Master Builders | Sunday, 01 April 1984 |
| 11 | The Actors Do Not Understand | Sunday, 08 April 1984 |
Directors
Misha Williams, Keith Cheetham, William Slater, Michael Elliott, Bob Lockyer, Michael Langham, Michael Bogdanov, Patrick Garland, Karolos Koun, Peter Hall, Christopher Morahan, Oleg Efremov
Writers
Ronald Harwood, Aeschylus, Christopher Stace, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Titus Maccius Plautus, Jean Racine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Euripides, Henrik Ibsen, Thomas Otway, George Chapman, William Wycherley, Douglas Jerrold, Cyril Tourneur, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Aristophanes, August Strindberg, Thomas Middleton, Frank Wedekind, Molière, Georg Büchner, Friedrich Schiller, Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O'Neill
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Ronald Harwood | Self - Presenter |
| Ian Saynor | Quotations Reader / English Excerpt: The Seagull / Extracts: A Month in the Country; The Playboy of the Western World; The Plough and the Stars / Extracts: The Haunted House / Extract: The Harrowing of Hell |
| Peter Gale | Quotations Reader |
| Peter Hall | Self - Director, National Theatre |
| James Hall | Extract from Bussy D'Ambois / Extract from Black-Ey'd Susan |
| Judith Paris | Extract from Le Cid / Extracts from The Versailles Impromptu; The Critique of the School for Wives; Tartuffe |
| Carl Forgione | Quotations Speaker / Extracts from The Lulu Plays / Extract from The Changeling |
| Christopher Timothy | Extract from Woyzeck / Excerpts: The 1980 York Cycle of Mystery Plays |
| Ann Payot | Extracts from A Doll's House / Extract from The Changeling |
| Brian Tully | Extract from Woyzeck / Extract from Bussy D'Ambois |
| Terence McGinity | Hamlet / Extracts from The Lulu Plays / Extract from The Robbers |
| Jennie Franks | Reader of Extract from Miss Julie / Extract from The Changeling |
| Daniel Massey | Excerpt from The Mayor of Zalamea / Excerpt from Man & Superman |
| Stuart Organ | Extracts from The Lulu Plays / Extract from Woyzeck |
| Cate Fowler | Extracts from The Lulu Plays / Extract from The Country Wife |
| Paul Rogers | Faustus / Extracts: Hamlet / Excerpts: The Dresser |
| John Gielgud | Self - Actor |
| Frankie Howerd | Self - Actor / Extracts: The Haunted House |
| Colleen Dewhurst | Self - Actress / Extract Reader: A Long Day's Journey into Night |
| Michael Billington | Self - Theatre Critic |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Richard Cawston | Executive Producer |
| Harry Hastings | Producer |
| Karolos Koun | Producer |
