Festival - Season 1
1 - Fallen Angels
Air Date: October 9, 1963
Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.
2 - The Duel
Air Date: October 16, 1963
3 - I Want to Go Home
Air Date: October 23, 1963
4 - Stephen D
Air Date: October 30, 1963
Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.
5 - The Human Voice
Air Date: November 6, 1963
During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.
6 - Krapp's Last Tape
Air Date: November 13, 1963
On Krapp's 69th birthday he reviews a tape recording he made the year he was 39 and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months.
7 - The Bald Prima Donna
Air Date: November 27, 1963
There is no prima donna in this play, and if there was one, she wouldn't be bald. Apart from that, what could be more normal?
8 - Stalingrad
Air Date: December 4, 1963
9 - The Fire Raisers
Air Date: December 11, 1963
In an area plagued by mysterious outbursts of arson, two strangers arrive and inveigle their way into the home of a wealthy bourgeois businessman. Are they the fire raisers? Surely they can't be - can they?
10 - Little Eyolf
Air Date: December 18, 1963
A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.
11 - The Comedy of Errors
Air Date: January 1, 1964
Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.
12 - The Respectful Prostitute
Air Date: January 8, 1964
A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.
13 - Lysistrata
Air Date: January 15, 1964
A version of Aristophane's play: Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.
14 - August for the People
Air Date: January 22, 1964
Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?
15 - Trevor
Air Date: February 5, 1964
16 - The Lady of the Camellias
Air Date: February 12, 1964
An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.
17 - Say Nothing
Air Date: February 19, 1964
18 - The Master of Santiago
Air Date: February 26, 1964
19 - Under Milk Wood
Air Date: March 4, 1964
One night while the townsfolk wrestle with their dreams, seedy Captain Cat and a stranger walk the streets. Captain Cat is a blind, retired sea captain, recalling memories of drowned shipmates and Rosie Probert, a whore and the one great love of his youth
20 - A Florentine Tragedy
Air Date: March 11, 1964
21 - The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?
Air Date: March 18, 1964
Denis Johnston's first play took Dublin by storm and laid the foundation of the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre. It takes place in the mind of an actor who is playing the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet in a traditional patriotic drama. The actor is knocked unconscious by accident and in his reverie he imagines he is Emmet walking the streets of present-day Dublin, confronting the jarring contrast between the myth of Ireland and modern day reality.
22 - Murder in the Cathedral
Air Date: March 25, 1964
T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
23 - The Inner World of Miss Vaughan
Air Date: April 1, 1964
24 - Ring Round the Moon
Air Date: April 8, 1964
Twin brothers with very different personalities are in conflict over the love of a less than worthy woman. One brother comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.
25 - Justin Thyme
Air Date: April 15, 1964
Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.
26 - John Bull's Other Island
Air Date: April 22, 1964
27 - The Life of Galileo
Air Date: April 29, 1964
The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.
28 - The Keep
Air Date: May 6, 1964
The memory of a revered and long-dead mother binds together a Welsh family, and also prevents any of its members from having a full life. But is she really dead?
29 - Everyman
Air Date: May 20, 1964
30 - Police
Air Date: May 27, 1964
In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.
31 - Six Characters in Search of an Author
Air Date: June 3, 1964
An absurdist play about the relationship between authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners. In it, the actors, author, and crew interact with the "real characters" who appear on stage during the rehearsal of the play.
32 - Bloomsday
Air Date: June 10, 1964
One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.