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The Crucible

In the 17th century, a spiteful teenage girl accuses a man of witchcraft.

A Clearing in the Woods

A young woman who is suicidal has visions of herself at different ages - each incarnation trying to give her life meaning.

Pineapple Poll

Summer Time

A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.

The Cocktail Party

Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and relationship. Will they find their way back to each other again?

The Gioconda Smile

Arrogant Henry Hutton shouldn't have been so unfeeling towards lonely spinster Janet - when his wife dies, he might need her help.

The Browning Version

Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.

Tiger at the Gates

Strenuous efforts to prevent the Trojan War from taking place eventually come to nothing.

The Thirteen Clocks

An Enemy of the People

When a doctor finds that his town's water supply has become polluted, he is astonished to find that his determination to broadcast the truth has made him a pariah in the community.

The Importance of Being Earnest

In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.

Candida

A teenage poet falls in love with the much older wife of a clergyman.

Sir Thomas Beecham Presents Lollipops

The Barber of Seville

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler looks forward only to a life of suffocating dullness in her marriage to an academic she finds boring. But then the writer with whom she once had a tempestuous relationship returns.

Mr. Arcularis

Mr. Arcularis sets off on a long sea voyage to recuperate from a serious surgical operation. But the strangest things start to happen on board ship.

A Tongue of Silver

The Zeal of Thy House