Max Hafler

Épopée de la lutte pour l'indépendance de l'Irlande au début du siècle. La puissante Angleterre a toujours connu la contestation de la part de sa plus proche colonie, l'Irlande. Pendant 700 ans, les révoltes ont été jugulées. Mais en 1916, une rébellion éclate à Dublin, qui changera le cours de l'histoire. L'artisan de cette révolte, un homme de l'ombre voué à son pays, s'appelait Michael Collins.

The Ugly Duckling is the heart-warming, and sometimes heart-wrenching, story of a little "ugly" duckling. Ridiculed and laughed at, the Ugly Duckling leaves his home and journeys through the world, searching for a place to belong. But after a lonely and cold winter, the duckling is transformed and shows his true feathers as he discovers how being different can be beautiful.

When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.

Nous connaissons tous l'histoire du caneton qui se transforma en cygne mais ce que la majorité des gens ignore, c'est que ce vilain petit canard fut adopté bien malgré lui par Ratso, un rat des villes réfugié à la campagne… Se faisant passer aux yeux des canards pour le père d'un œuf égaré, Ratso a l'autorisation de rester dans l'enceinte sécurisée de la basse cour où il s'est réfugié. Mais à un certain prix ! Non seulement, il doit élever le jeune volatile tout juste éclos de cet œuf, mais il doit aussi remplir les fonctions d'homme à tout faire ! Et puis, il y a le jeune caneton, appelé à juste titre Mosh, que Ratso trouve vraiment énervant, gênant et… laid. Rester dans la cour des canards ne satisfait pas les ambitions de Ratso. Il décide donc de se rendre à la plus grande fête foraine du pays pour y monter son spectacle. Mais il doit emmener Mosh avec lui…

This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary.

Play by Robert Holman, about two brothers at a rural comprehensive in Teeside. The older brother, Gordon, joins the army and is killed by the IRA in Northern Ireland. The younger blames his father for letting Gordon join the army.

One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.

Simon Simpson runs an entertainment agency in Liverpool. At one of his regular auditions in The Bootle Railway Club he sees an aggressive young man fresh from the dole queue who dreams of becoming a professional comedian. Simpson believes the boy has talent and starts to groom him for 'stardom'.

Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). They visit the cemetery where Winnie’s father is buried. Also in the cemetery are two art students, one of whom (Liz) asks if she can take a photograph of the three women. She takes it while they are not prepared, making them look ridiculous (Cora is putting her make-up on, Winnie is staring at the camera with her mouth open). Cora is angry, and Liz takes another of them properly posed. But she enters the first photograph for a competition, where it wins a prize

Mother is manic, Father frustrated. Son sees himself as quite an operator. Daughter wants to change the dreary world of Jubilee-year England. The day has come. Back to Rottingdean... if all goes smoothly.

They train people to look after lads like Gary at the centre. So why does Vernon persist in keeping his brother at home?

A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.