BBC Play of the Month

1. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shak...

2. Rasputin

A peasant monk exerts a great influence upon the superstitious wife of the Ru...

3. Tartuffe

Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe...

4. The Cherry Orchard

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a tr...

5. Summer and Smoke

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he p...

6. Stephen D

Stephen Dedalus grows up in a Dublin which is changing radically as the twent...

7. The Merchant of Venice

Antonio's friend Bassanio is in love and needs money to go courting. Using An...

8. Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as th...

9. Trelawny of the Wells

A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady (Rose ...