Performance (1991)

Genre

drama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

7 seasons, 33 episodes

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This anthology series presents filmed versions of famous plays from writers like Chekhov, Ibsen, and Shakespeare. Each episode is a TV adaptation of a stage work featuring well-known British actors.

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What happens

Performance is a UK television anthology series produced by Simon Curtis for the BBC. Twenty-six episodes aired on BBC2 between 5 October 1991 and 21 March 1998, almost all of which were productions of classic and contemporary plays, including Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler 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. Among its directors were Karel Reisz, Anthony Page, Richard Eyre, Simon Curtis, and Harold Pinter. Its high-profile cast included Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Elizabeth McGovern, Jeremy Irons, Judi Dench, Hugh Grant, Alec Guinness, Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Ian Holm, Bill Nighy, John Gielgud, Geraldine Somerville and Juliet Stevenson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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