Festival (1963)
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 32 episodes
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This anthology series adapts classic plays by major writers for television. Each episode is a different dramatic work from Shakespeare to Beckett.
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What happens
Festival is an hour-long UK dramatic anthology series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and aired on the BBC from 1960 to 1969. There were a total of 148 plays, adapted from writers ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett. Titles include Krapp's Last Tape by Beckett, Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot, and Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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