Based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, Kama Ginkas’ astounding reimagining highlights and builds off of the Chekhovian tension between the beauty of life and the tragedy of how it is lived. The story tells the the tale of philosophy student Andrey Vasil'ich Kovrin. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Kovrin decides to visit his childhood friend Tanya Pesotsky at the estate of her father. As he and Tanya develop a relationship and eventually marry, a black monk of legend begins appearing to Kovrin in visions. Though these hallucinations at first imbue the young man with joy and energy, they eventually lead to his ruin.

Amol, a child, is confined to his adoptive uncle's home by an incurable disease. He stands in the co...

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis ...

A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Mar...

On the shores of Aulis, the Greeks prepare to attack Troy. But their ships are unable to set sail be...

The Empty King created a mythical figure and a whole world from grotesque, archetypal images. The dr...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

Each is dependent on the other. He breaks into the passport office to get a passport. He is surprise...

David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a...

The story behind the translation and performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in Klingon.

In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic acc...

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an...

A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new p...

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's trag...

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of ...

A comedy musical stage version of the Phantom of the Opera, filmed live on-stage during a performanc...