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1) Hedda Gabler
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Hedda's married name is Hedda Tesman; Gabler is her maiden name. On the subject of the title, Ibsen wrote: "My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda as a personality is to be regarded rather as her father's daughter than her husband's wife." Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic general, has just returned to her villa in Kristiania (now Oslo) from her honeymoon. Her husband is Jørgen Tesman, an aspiring, young, reliable...
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A rough-and-tumble farce centered around a lively battle of the sexes, The Taming of the Shrew brims with action and bawdy humor. The unconventional romance between a lusty fortune-hunter and a bitter shrew unfolds to the accompaniment of witty, fast-paced dialogue and physical humor in this excellent introduction to Shakespearean comedy. The freebooter Petruchio arrives in Padua to hear of Katharina, a beautiful heiress whose waspish rants and caustic...
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The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabeled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's "problem plays", because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending.
The play has been...
4) Cymbeline
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Performed as early as 1611 and published in the "First Folio" in 1623, Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" weaves an elaborate tale of palatial envy and power in Ancient Britain. Cymbeline, King of Britain, commands that his lovely young daughter Imogen marry Cloten, the violent and callous son of the current Queen by her former husband. With her heart already promised to the poor yet heroic Posthumus, Imogen refuses. Disgusted at the prospect of his daughter...
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Wes is a young husband locked in co-dependent discontent with his beautiful and needy wife Karen. Their future prospects are as barren as the sun-bleached dunes that are the surreal setting for their one-room existence.
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A wild Scottish island provides the backdrop for this tense drama of a stormy marriage between an authoritarian minister and his mysterious wife whose lives are shaken by the unexpected arrival of a delinquent into their home.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Beautiful Carole Lombard and likeable James Stewart are Jane and John Mason, a couple who meet, fall madly in love, marry, and quickly have a baby. But while they -- and the audience -- are confident that they are meant for each other, life intercedes and the couple must meet with disapproving in-laws, job stress, financial challenges and, finally, a devastating illness.
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100 pages ; 21 cm
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"Martin, a successful architect who has just turned forty, leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best friend that he is also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters."--back cover.
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors.. This comic confrontation between the sexes is one of the most frequently-staged plays. Its sparkling wit and rich characterization are matched with an outstanding...
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Studio classic volume 27
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1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Delicious Americana showing reactions of three women who receive a letter from the town flirt who has run off with one of their husbands. Based on John Klempner's novel.
12) The gift
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A young married couple's lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light after more than twenty years.
13) Diablo
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1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A young Civil War veteran named Jackson wakes up to find his beautiful wife kidnapped by a band of ruthless bandits. With killers around every corner, the lines begin to blur between who the good and the bad are, including Jackson. As a final gunfight looms for our hero and he is asked to risk it all to save the woman he loves, this action-packed western takes twist and turns that will break even the hardest of hearts.
14) Jane got a gun
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Young and pretty with a soul of pure steel, Jane Hammond is a good girl married to one of the worst baddies in town. When her husband Bill turns against his own gang, the vicious Bishop Boys, and returns home barely alive with eight bullets in his back, Jane knows it's time to ditch the dress for a pair of pants and strap on her own gun.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A young couple inherits a farm and they are determined to start a beautiful new life together. However the home they have inherited starts to unleash unsettling and dangerous supernatural phenomena that starts to threaten their marriage.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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With his marriage on rocky ground, dejected one-hit-author Jack Spencer goes "glamping" with his wife, Amanda, in search of a spark. When the isolated retreat suddenly becomes anything but private with the arrival of double booking honeymoon hipsters and a super-hunk landowner, Jack must learn to get over himself as he dives deep off the grid into a comedic exploration of love, failure, relevance, and miniature donkeys.
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Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is one of the most enduring, explosive works in theater. Blanche DuBois, once a well-heeled Southern belle but now alcoholic and destitute, arrives in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brutish brother-in-law Stanley. And as Stanley terrorizes the fragile Blanche, reality slips slowly away from her.
Recorded at KCRW, Santa Monica in May 1998.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
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""Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen, when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Like her, neither audiences nor critics could get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the...
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1 videodisc (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a sexy young temptress threatens an already troubled marriage, a close-knit family rallies together to examine their own marriages and rediscover the precious reason that the one they have is the one they want forever.
20) The intervention
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Four couples convene for a booze-filled weekend, but the true intention for their vacation is an intervention for one of the marriages they believe to be toxic.
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