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- DirectorPolly FindlayStarsZoë AldrichJamie BallardPaul BentallThe new King Creon is desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war and refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies him.
- DirectorMark CullinghamStarsZoe CaldwellJudith AndersonMitchell RyanMedea (Zoe Caldwell) is in Corinth with Jason (Mitchell Ryan) and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason.
- DirectorCarrie CracknellRoss MacGibbonStarsHelen McCroryDanny SapaniMichaela CoelMedea, a woman stricken with grief after learning that her ex-husband has decided to remarry is faced with impossible choices in this exhilarating and breathtaking adaptation of Medea.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsPortia BooroffChipo ChungDominic CooperThe wife of the Athenian King Theseus conceives a forbidden love for his son (by an earlier wife) Hyppolytus. All ends badly for all.
- DirectorJamie LloydStarsJason BarnettEmilia ClarkeRobert GlenisterThe Seagull is a filmed performance of the play by Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Anya Reiss, in which a woman leaves Moscow to visit her terminally ill brother.
- DirectorHoward DaviesRoss MacGibbonStarsClaudie BlakleyMark BonnarPip CarterMadame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage.
- DirectorNick WickhamStarsKate DuchêneChukwudi IwujiÉva MagyarHedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsJulie HarrisChristopher PlummerHume CronynA wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.
- DirectorPatrick GarlandStarsClaire BloomAnthony HopkinsRalph RichardsonYears ago, Nora Helmer (Claire Bloom) committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald (Sir Anthony Hopkins). Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsJane FondaEdward FoxTrevor HowardNora Helmer, years earlier, committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband, Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out and the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
- DirectorSean MathiasRobin LoughStarsSean MathiasIan McKellenDamien MolonyFollowing their hit run on Broadway, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham's Theatre, London.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDustin HoffmanKate ReidJohn MalkovichAn aging traveling salesman recognizes the emptiness of his life and tries to fix it.
- DirectorTom StoppardStarsGary OldmanTim RothRichard DreyfussTwo minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
- DirectorDanny BoyleTim Van SomerenStarsJonny Lee MillerBenedict CumberbatchAndreea PaduraruChildlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the Creature determines to track down his creator.
- DirectorDenzel WashingtonStarsDenzel WashingtonViola DavisStephen McKinley HendersonA working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.