Performance (British TV series)

Performance
Genre	Stage drama
Country of origin	UK
Original language	English (including translations)
Production
Production company	BBC (some co-productions)
Original release
Network	BBC 2
Release	12 October 1991 (1991-10-12) – 21 March 1998 (1998-03-21)

Performance was a UK television anthology series produced by Simon Curtis for the BBC. Twenty-six episodes aired on the BBC between 12 October 1991 and 21 March 1998, almost all of which were productions of classic and contemporary plays, including Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, King Lear by William Shakespeare, and The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan.

Among its directors were Karel Reisz, Anthony Page, Richard Eyre, Simon Curtis, and Harold Pinter.

Its high-profile cast included Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Elizabeth McGovern, Jeremy Irons, Judi Dench, Hugh Grant, Alec Guinness, Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Ian Holm, Bill Nighy, John Gielgud, and Juliet Stevenson.

List of episodes

The main sources for compiling this list was the BFI Film and TV Database and the website of the BBC Genome Project.

Legend: Se = Season; Ep = Episode

Se	Ep	Title	Author	Producer/ Director	Performers	UK Transmission date
1	1	Absolute Hell	Rodney Ackland	Anthony Page Simon Curtis	Judi Dench	5 October 1991
1	2	Uncle Vanya	Anton Chekhov	Gregory Mosher Simon Curtis	David Warner Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio	12 October 1991
1	3	Nona	Roberto Cossa	Simon Curtis (d/p)	Les Dawson	19 October 1991
1	4	Old Times	Harold Pinter	Simon Curtis (d/p)	John Malkovich Kate Nelligan Miranda Richardson	26 October 1991
1	5	Top Girls	Caryl Churchill	Max Stafford-Clark Simon Curtis		2 November 1991
1	6	The Trials of Oz	Geoffrey Robertson John Mortimer	Sheree Folkson (d) Simon Curtis (p)	Hugh Grant Peter O'Brien	9 November
2	1	Tales from Hollywood	Christopher Hampton	Howard Davies (d) Simon Curtis (p)	Jeremy Irons, Alec Guinness	19 October 1992
2	2	A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen		Juliet Stevenson Trevor Eve	21 November 1992
2	3	Roots	Arnold Wesker	Simon Curtis (d/p)	Jane Horrocks Pam Ferris Imelda Staunton	28 November 1992
2	4	After the Dance	Terence Rattigan	Stuart Burge (d) Simon Curtis (p)	Anton Rodgers Gemma Jones Imogen Stubbs	5 December 1992
2	5	Six Characters in Search of an Author	Luigi Pirandello		Brian Cox John Hurt	12 December 1992
3	1	The Maitlands	Robert MacKenzie		Eileen Atkins Jennifer Ehle Bill Nighy Edward Fox	13 November 1993
3	2	Hedda Gabler	Henrik Ibsen		Fiona Shaw Nicholas Woodeson Stephen Rea	27 November 1993
3	3	The Entertainer	John Osborne		Michael Gambon	4 December 1993
3	4	The Changeling	Thomas Middleton and William Rowley		Bob Hoskins Elizabeth McGovern	11 December 1993

External links

• Performance at BBC Online
• Performance at IMDb