BBC Play of the Month

- Season 15

(1982)

Guests at a small hotel are disquieted by the insistence of a mysterious doctor that he has been there before.

Maria, a wealthy widow, invites her long-time dinner companion Richard to spend a month at her house in Scotland. If she still likes him after a month together, they will marry. Their mutual friends, George, Duke of Bristol, and his companion, Helen decide to make it a foursome. The humor in this drawing room comedy contrasts the vain, self-centered Maria and George with their gentle and sophisticated partners.

A writer (Anthony Hopkins) is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman (Diana Rigg). The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.

In this classic eighteenth-century satire, Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacular, "The Spanish Armada", confident that he has written a great play.

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