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Performance

Season 5 1995

  • 1995-10-07T19:30:00Z on BBC Four
  • 1h 30m
  • 12h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

1995-10-07T19:30:00Z

5x01 The Shadow of a Gunman

Season Premiere

5x01 The Shadow of a Gunman

  • 1995-10-07T19:30:00Z2h

The series of classic dramas returns with Sean O'Casey's famous play, in a production starring Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Rea.

A dreaming poet is mistaken by a romantic young girl for an IRA gunman on the run.

5x02 The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd

  • 1995-10-14T19:30:00Z2h

The series of classic dramas continues with D.H. Lawrence's early play exploring life in a mining community in 1914, starring Zoe Wanamaker, Stephen Dillane, Colin Firth.

Lizzie Holroyd feels she must escape from her marriage, but terrible events overtake her.

1995-10-21T19:30:00Z

5x03 Landscape

5x03 Landscape

  • 1995-10-21T19:30:00Z2h

Beth sits in an armchair to the left of the table, and Duff in a chair at the opposite end. Duff refers normally to Beth but does not appear to hear her voice and Beth never looks at Duff and does not appear to hear his voice.

1995-10-21T19:30:00Z

5x04 Bed

5x04 Bed

  • 1995-10-21T19:30:00Z2h

Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed.

1995-10-28T20:30:00Z

5x05 Henry IV

5x05 Henry IV

  • 1995-10-28T20:30:00Z2h

Director John Caird 's adaptation of Shakespeare's two-part work - telling the story of a young man's elevation from immature prince to responsible king - explores timeless themes against the brutal backdrop of medieval England.

Season Finale

1995-11-04T20:30:00Z

5x06 After Miss Julie

Season Finale

5x06 After Miss Julie

  • 1995-11-04T20:30:00Z2h

Concluding the Performance season of classic dramas, this updated version of Strindberg's Miss Julie is vivid and contemporary.

It's 1945 and the Labour Party has won the General Election. Miss Julie, the upper-class daughter of a Labour MP, sets out to seduce her father's chauffeur, John, even though he is unofficially engaged to Christine, who works in the kitchen.

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