Movies: Kenneth Ives

Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir....

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials ...

It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC production broadcast on the Theatre Night series.]...

This neat, intense drama, labelled “a fable for television”, stars Tom Bell as the scruffy, childlike Michael Biddle, who is invited in from the cold of a suburban street by sexually frustrated, bored housewife Cynthia, played by Christine Hargreaves...

Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is ripped open and life will never be the same again....

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A businessman having a nervous breakdown checks in for one last night at a shabby hotel where he composes a suicide note. The hotel owner intervenes and the two men debate and argue the matter....

A young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer....

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel....

Powerful statement about the abuse of human rights by totalitarian governments, finds an unctuous and "civilized" interrogator humiliating the doomed members of a family who have become enemies of the state....

In the kitchen, two assassins await the arrival of their victim. But someone keeps sending them messages via the dumb waiter....

Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion....

A dysfunctional couple remember a better time....

A school story with a noticeable difference - the adults regress to children....

A masterly study of a middle-aged woman waking up after 30 years passed in a coma induced by sleeping sickness. In her mind she is still 16, and her attempts to fathom the changed world into which she re-emerges is not only poignant and emotionally c...

The story of two brothers and a tramp. Harold Pinter's first major success as a dramatist....

Play about middle class domestic abuse....