Festival Episode Rating Graph
Oct 1963 - present
Oct 1963 - present
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S1 Ep1
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9th Oct 1963
Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.
S1 Ep4
30th Oct 1963
Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.
S1 Ep5
6th Nov 1963
During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.
S1 Ep6
13th Nov 1963
On Krapp's 69th birthday he reviews a tape recording he made the year he was 39 and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months.
S1 Ep7
27th Nov 1963
There is no prima donna in this play, and if there was one, she wouldn't be bald. Apart from that, what could be more normal?
S1 Ep9
11th Dec 1963
In an area plagued by mysterious outbursts of arson, two strangers arrive and inveigle their way into the home of a wealthy bourgeois businessman. Are they the fire raisers? Surely they can't be - can they?
S1 Ep10
18th Dec 1963
A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.
S1 Ep11
1st Jan 1964
Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.
S1 Ep12
8th Jan 1964
A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.
S1 Ep13
15th Jan 1964
A version of Aristophane's play: Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.
S1 Ep14
22nd Jan 1964
Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?
S1 Ep16
12th Feb 1964
An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.
S1 Ep19
4th Mar 1964
One night while the townsfolk wrestle with their dreams, seedy Captain Cat and a stranger walk the streets. Captain Cat is a blind, retired sea captain, recalling memories of drowned shipmates and Rosie Probert, a whore and the one great love of his youth
S1 Ep21
18th Mar 1964
Denis Johnston's first play took Dublin by storm and laid the foundation of the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre. It takes place in the mind of an actor who is playing the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet in a traditional patriotic drama. The actor is knocked unconscious by accident and in his reverie he imagines he is Emmet walking the streets of present-day Dublin, confronting the jarring contrast between the myth of Ireland and modern day reality.
S1 Ep22
25th Mar 1964
T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
S1 Ep24
8th Apr 1964
Twin brothers with very different personalities are in conflict over the love of a less than worthy woman. One brother comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.
S1 Ep25
15th Apr 1964
Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.
S1 Ep27
29th Apr 1964
The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.
S1 Ep28
6th May 1964
The memory of a revered and long-dead mother binds together a Welsh family, and also prevents any of its members from having a full life. But is she really dead?
S1 Ep30
27th May 1964
In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.
S1 Ep31
3rd Jun 1964
An absurdist play about the relationship between authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners. In it, the actors, author, and crew interact with the "real characters" who appear on stage during the rehearsal of the play.
S1 Ep32
10th Jun 1964
One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.
The first episode of Festival aired on October 09, 1963.
The last episode of Festival aired on June 10, 1964.
There are 32 episodes of Festival.
There is one season of Festival.
Yes.
Festival is set to return for future episodes.