Stage 2 (1971)
Synopsis
BBC anthology series of classic plays.
First Air Date: 1971-08-04
Last Air Date: 1971-09-26
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 2
Networks: BBC Two
Top Cast
- Tom Courtenay as Marlow
- Thora Hird as Mrs. Hardcastle
- Juliet Mills as Kate Hardcastle
- Brian Cox as Hastings
- Trevor Peacock as Tony Lumpkin
- Colin Blakely as Peer Gynt
- Wendy Hiller as Aase
- Francesca Annis as Solveig
- Coral Browne as Mrs. Warren
- James Grout as Sir George Crofts
Seasons
None (1971)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: She Stoops to Conquer
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with a potential suitor. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper. Hilarity ensues.
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Ep. 2: Peer Gynt
The classic tale by Henrik Ibsen; a complete opposite of a hero is banished from his village for his (in)actions. He then travels the world with more or less the same result trying to impress.
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Ep. 3: Mrs. Warren's Profession
A very proper young woman is horrified to discover not only that her mother once worked as a prostitute in order to support her, but that she later became a whorehouse madam rather than give up the business.
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Ep. 4: The Duchess of Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi is recently widowed and her greedy brothers are determined she will not marry again, so they employ Daniel De Bosola, a murderer in their pay to spy on her. He fails and most of the cast pay for the brothers' plotting. One of the great revenge tragedies based on a true story, though John Webster, the playwright, probably didn't know this. Who would believe so much mayhem could happen, five hundred years before the Godfather?
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Ep. 5: The Shadow of a Gunman
The first part of Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy. Set in 1920, as the Irish War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men, Donald Davoren and Seamus Shields, who share a flat in Dublin.
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