Projects in genres: Drama

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The Lives of the Saints is a dark and bizarre morality tale. The story unfolds in the cafés, clubs and shops of Green Lanes, where Mr Karva is the boss: a ridiculous yet dangerous man. Othello, his stepson, is the young pretender, palling around with his girlfriend Tina and his weak-willed lackey Emilio. Life revolves around socialising, gambling and trying to scrape a modest living. But that lifestyle is about to be thrown into disarray by an otherworldly, sickly-looking 10-year- old child. Mr Karva's errand boy, Roadrunner, stumbles across the child in the park and offloads the bizarre find into Othello's basement. Thus begins an exhilaratingly strange series of events. It seems that the child is able to grant others their innermost desires... Soon Othello's dreams of limitless wealth are becoming reality. And true to form, his tyrannical stepfather wants to muscle in on the action. It's Paradise on the streets of north London, but family ties and relationships are becoming increasingly strained and as Mr Karva himself says, 'every Paradise got its serpent'. He persuades the unstable Emilio to take the matter into his own hands, and the tale plummets towards its tragic conclusion. The Lives of the Saints is a truly original, modern-day fable, which warns that what we wish for is not always what we need.

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The story of English medieval King Richard III from cradle to death, seen from a psychodynamic and mythological perspective.

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In the magical spirit of Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate comes The Mistress of Spices, a romantic tale of food and love from the team that brought you Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice.

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Annie is bringing up her son Charlie in a village in the country on her own. She meets Mack, divorced, fun and sexy. He falls in love with her, meets and charms seven-year-old Charlie, and then is offered a wonderful job in New York. He wants them both to come with him. But Annie has her family, her friends and her well-paid job and Charlie fights his corner as hard as he can - this is a real threat to his familiar life and he isn't going to make it easy for them. He particularly fights her ruling that he's now too old to sneak into her bed at night and must sleep on his own. Who gets to choose? Annie makes the difficult decision, turning down passion and adventure in favour of stability and roots for Charlie, but it's a lot to give up and maybe not what's really best for Charlie either. Mack, not enjoying New York without them, realises that there is possibly another solution. It seems unlikely, but he can try life her way. He's coming back.

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Framton Nuttel, a nervous young gentleman from London, goes to the countryside for a rest cure, only to find he has strayed into a family tragedy with ghostly overtones.

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On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by a malevolent Dr Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to Droz's secluded villa to service his strange musical automatons. Little by little Felisberto learns of the doctor's plans to stage a 'diabolical opera' and of Malvina's fate. He secretly conspires to rescue her, only to become trapped himself in the web of Droz's perverse universe.

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When news of the death of Princess Diana, undoubtedly the most famous woman in the world, breaks upon a shocked and disbelieving British public, Queen Elizabeth II retreats behind the walls of Balmoral Castle with her family, unable to comprehend the public response to the tragedy. For Tony Blair, the popular and newly elected Prime Minister, the people's need for reassurance and support from their leaders is palpable. As the unprecedented outpouring of emotion grows ever stronger, Blair must find a way to reconnect the beloved Queen with the British public.    The Queen draws on scores of interviews with insiders and expert observers for its intimate, revealing and sometimes humorous portrait of a family in crisis and of a new Prime Minister operating at the height of his powers at a time of extraordinary private grief and public sorrow.

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Soraya, a Parisian/Palestinian, and her Saudi boyfriend Yusif's relationship frays to snapping point as the FBI, Homeland Security and the Super's remaining six dogs plague their daily lives. This is a black comedy which portrays the poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic truths of the post-9/11 lifestyle of Arabs in New York City.

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Based on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and set at the turn of the century, The Silent Question thoughtfully investigates one woman's descent into madness.

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Suzy and Jonny have been through a rocky patch, he's obsessed with football, she's had enough. Deciding to make a fresh start they share a romantic meal. Jonny comes bearing gifts, this season's strip! As the celebratory cork is popped, he declares kick off! Will she blow the final whistle?

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The Starers have a comic fight over hair.

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Eyes meet across a room - the start of something.