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Episodes
CBC Drama Special The Taming of the Shrew
Petruchio, a strutting suitor, sets out to undermine the spirit of Katharina, the bad tempered object of his affections. As his wife, it is her duty to care for him more than for herself. Starring Len Cariou and Sharry Flett, this production is now a Stratford classic. Shakespeare's rollicking 16th century battle of the sexes is treated in a traditional ...
- 1982
- 02:33:35
- 15-17
- Added on: 01/19/2016
CBC Drama Special The Taming of the Shrew
Despite complaints that it's the most chauvinistic play ever written, The Taming of the Shrew continues after 400 years to be one of Shakespeare's biggest crowd-pleasers. Richard Monette's rollicking 1989 Stratford treatment is set in a colourful Italy of the 1950s. Colm Feore depicts Petruchio as a swaggering leather-jacketed street bandit who roars up to marry Kate (Goldie Semple) on a sporty ...
- 1988
- 02:38:22
- 15-17
- Added on: 01/05/2016
CBC Drama Special Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-soeurs
Germaine, a Montreal housewife, has won a million Gold Star stamps (stamps given out by grocery stores, which customers stuck into little booklets and exchanged for goods like barbecues and lawn chairs) and has invited all the women she knows to come over and help her stick them into the booklets. As they stick, the women discuss the men in ...
- 1977
- 01:41:53
- 15-17
- Added on: 07/24/2015
CBC Drama Special Conspiracy of Silence (Part 1 of 2)
A tragic and troubling true story which made headlines across the nation, this two-hour drama recounts the life of Helen Betty Osborne, a young Aboriginal student who was brutally beaten and slain in a The Pas, Manitoba town in 1971. Her murder remained unsolved for nearly 16 years, despite the fact that within days of the tragedy, rumours began circulating ...
- 1991
- 01:33:23
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2015
CBC Drama Special Conspiracy of Silence (Part 2 of 2)
A tragic and troubling true story which made headlines across the nation, this two-hour drama recounts the life of Helen Betty Osborne, a young Aboriginal student who was brutally beaten and slain in a The Pas, Manitoba town in 1971. Her murder remained unsolved for nearly 16 years, despite the fact that within days of the tragedy, rumours began circulating ...
- 1991
- 01:29:40
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2015
CBC Drama Special John A.: Birth of a Country
John A: Birth of a Country is a story of personal hatred, public passion and the rivalry that shaped Canada. The time is 1856 to 1864. Two men, each profoundly committed to his own views, battle to dominate Canada's future. This drama lays bare the passionate struggle between John A. Macdonald, the charismatic leader of the Conservative Party and his ...
- 2011
- 01:30:04
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/11/2013
Teacher Guide(s)
CBC Drama Special Dangerous Offender
This critically acclaimed drama is based on the true story of Marlene Moore, who gained instant notoriety when she was branded Canada's first female dangerous offender. This is a story about a child raised behind bars: Moore entered her first jail at age 13 and by 28 faced the possibility of a life sentence. At first, Moore is reluctant to ...
- 1996
- 01:32:20
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/14/2013
CBC Drama Special The Comedy of Errors
Borrowing from the Latin comedy The Twins, Shakespeare created this farce for the Christmas festivities of 1594. Fun is the primary aim of this romantic comedy which tells of the complications which follow when a merchant, Aegeon, enters the enemy state of Ephesus. He hopes to reunite his family years after the shipwreck which split two sets of twins and ...
- 1989
- 01:16:23
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
CBC Drama Special As You Like It
This delightful romantic comedy, lavishly staged by the Stratford Festival, has been a favourite with audiences throughout the centuries. In this acclaimed production John Hirsch directs Roberta Maxwell and Rosemary Dunsmore as Rosalind and Celia, with Andrew Gillies as Orlando and Nicholas Pennell as Jaques. Pitting young love against the vanity of the court, the fairytale play tells the familiar ...
- 1983
- 02:39:00
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/14/2013
CBC Drama Special Romeo and Juliet
The excitement of live theatre comes to the screen in this special Stratford production of Shakespeare's classic love story. Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love at a masked ball, but their love is doomed by an ancient and unreasonable grudge between their families. Stratford director Richard Monette has set the play in the time of Mussolini's Fascist Italy, ...
- 1993
- 02:42:05
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
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