Amateur theatre is the focus of a new Sky Arts series that will search for the "nation’s best amateur dramatic theatre company".
The series, which begins broadcasting in November, will see eight groups battle it out for the title, with the winner performing in a West End venue. Each will be mentored by a leading actor.
James Hunt, Sky Arts Channel Director, said: “Sky Arts want...
With no immediate family to live for, Joseph is haunted by a past he has tried, for decades, to forget - if not actively obscure with drink and drugs. Suffering the hangover from hell - the dry spell over - he walks away from his present life and boards a boat bound for Ireland to confront hazy, fear-inducing memories from a childhood spent in the care system that he's had to f...
In addition to being a mainstay of the local lifeboat crew Norman (Roger Lloyd Pack) has been the manager of the little pier theatre in his home seaside town for forty years, ever since he was a youngster. In those days, the venue played host to popular singers like the flamboyant Alma Cogan, meeting with whom Norman still fondly remembers. Now, however, the council, who owns t...
1975年,北爱尔兰在北爱尔兰自愿军针对罗马天主教平民的暴力骚乱中饱受着苦难和创伤。当时年仅17岁的小阿里斯泰尔(连姆尼森 Liam Neeson 饰)在暴力气氛的感染下也不由得加入了北爱尔兰自愿军,并且在一次针对罗马天主教平民的暴力活动中当着年幼的乔格里芬(詹姆斯内斯比特 James Nesbitt 饰)的面残忍地杀掉了乔的哥哥。随着骚乱的平息,阿里斯泰尔被判处十二年有期徒刑,而亲眼目睹哥哥被杀害的乔却始终生活在母亲的责难和愧疚之下。三十多年之后,一家电视台同时邀请长大成人的阿里斯泰尔和乔出席一次节目录制,试图通过访谈的形式不仅还原事件真相,同时也希望两人和解。但是面对弑兄凶手,一直备受心灵折磨的乔将如何面对?而阿里斯泰尔将如何向乔讲述当时的事件原貌?两人是否会由此和解,而他们的生活由此又会产生怎样的改变呢?
One Halloween, Ligiea Willard, stem-cell researcher and ex-roommate of Laura Hobson, is killed on her way to a reunion with Laura and another old friend named Ellen Jacoby. Her work attracted protests, and she was about to go public on shady practices at her institute. Psychic Ursula Van Tressell senses the killing and exorcises a house where the three women once lived at its o...