Slings & arrows. Season 1 [videorecording (DVD)] / Rhombus ; Canadian Television Fund ; Showcase ; The Movie Network ; Movie Central ; produced by Niv Fichman, Daniel Iron and Sari Friedland.
Title from container. Originally broadcast on television in 2003. Contains all 6 episodes from the first season. Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Don McKellar, Rachel McAdams, Susan Coyne, Mark McKinney, Luke Kirby, Jennifer Irwin.
Contents:
Volume 1. Episode 1: Oliver's dream ; Episode 2: Geoffrey's return ; Episode 3: Madness in great ones -- Volume 2. Episode 4: Outrageous fortune ; Episode 5: A mirror up to nature ; Episode 6: Playing the swan.
Summary:
Based in a fictional Canadian town where legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure, to assume the Artistic Directorship after the sudden death of his mentor, Oliver Welles. When Geoffrey arrives he finds that Oliver is still there, in spirit anyway, and with his guidance (and often in spite of it) Geoffrey attempts to reconcile with his past while wrestling the Festival back from the marketing department. Despite a bitter leading lady, a clueless leading man, and a scheming General Manager, he manages to stage a remarkable production of Hamlet; the play that drove him mad.
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