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Performance is a UK television anthology series produced by Simon Curtis for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Twenty-six episodes aired on the BBC from 1991–98, almost all of which were productions of classic and contemporary plays, including Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, A Doll's House and Hedda Gabbler by Henrik Ibsen, Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, King Lear by William Shakespeare, and The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan.

Original Release

02/22/1991

Cast

Name	Character

Bob Hoskins	De Flores
Bev Willis	Barnes
Peter-Hugo Daly	Gadshill
Margot Leicester	Mariana
Paul Bhattacharjee	Dr. Bahru
Carsten Norgaard	Young Man
Elizabeth Spriggs	Mistress Quickly
Jonathan Firth	Prince Hal
Tom Wilkenson	Duke Vincentio
Britta Smith	Mrs. Henderson

(see additional cast & crew)

#	Title	Air Date
1	King Lear	Saturday, 21 March 1998

Directors

Simon Curtis, David Thacker, Nye Heron, Stuart Burge, Patrick Marber, David Hugh Jones, Christopher Morahan, Sheree Folkson, Richard Eyre, Steve Shill, Bill Bryden, John Caird, Max Stafford-Clark, Lindsay Posner, Harold Pinter, Nicholas Renton, Karel Reisz, Deborah Warner, Howard Davies

Writers

William Shakespeare, Michael Hastings, Terence Rattigan, Henrik Ibsen, Harold Pinter, Patrick Marber, J.B. Priestley, John Osborne, Richard Eyre, Roberto Cossa, Sean O'Casey, Geoffrey Robertson, Arnold Wesker, David Thacker, Jim Cartwright, William Rowley, Thomas Middleton, August Strindberg, D.H. Lawrence, Caryl Churchill, Christopher Hampton, Melim Teixeira, Fernanda Lapa, Ronald Mackenzie, Joan Tindale, Una Ellis-Fermor, Luigi Pirandello, Dennis Potter

Cast

Name	Character

Bob Hoskins	De Flores
Bev Willis	Barnes
Peter-Hugo Daly	Gadshill
Margot Leicester	Mariana
Paul Bhattacharjee	Dr. Bahru
Carsten Norgaard	Young Man
Elizabeth Spriggs	Mistress Quickly
Jonathan Firth	Prince Hal
Tom Wilkenson	Duke Vincentio
Britta Smith	Mrs. Henderson
James Ellis	The Landlord
Edward Tudor-Pole	Jackie Jackson
Ben Walden	Black and Tan
Ben Walden	Miles
Abigail Cruttenden	Clara Browning
Paul Ronan	Tommy Owen
Nicholas Selby	2nd Conservative MP
Robin Bailey	Charles
Robin Bailey	Thomas Mann
Beth Goddard	Waitress

Producers

Name	Role

Simon Curtis	Executive Producer
Rebecca Eaton	Executive Producer
David Snodin	Executive Producer
Simon Curtis	Producer
Glyn Edwards	Producer
Ruth S. Mayorcas	Producer
Michael Darbon	Producer
Sue Birtwistle	Producer
Robert Cooper	Producer
Kevin Loader	Producer
Peter Cregeen	Producer
Joy Spink	Producer
Fiona Finlay	Producer
Jane Hawley	Producer
June Collins	Producer
Annie Castledine	Producer