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/TIMON OF ATHENS/ (1981)

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Dvd Region: 2+4 Pal (UK & Europe)
Certificate: U
Running Time: Approx. 128 minutes
Type: Fullscreen
Originally Transmitted: 16th April 1981
Dvd Release Date: 2005
Released By: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Distributed By: DD Home Entertainment
Format: Colour Dvd Pal
Language: English
Subtitles: English sdh
Audio: Mono
Format: 4:3
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A HISTORICAL TRAGEDIE
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare’s plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors.

“Who would be so mock’d with glory, or so to live
But in a dream of friendship?
To have his pomp and all what state compounds
But only painted, like his vanish’d friends?”
Timon is a most generous man, helping out citizens in need and hosting lavish feasts for his friends. But when they discover his munificence has left him deep in debt, the flatterers and hangers-on soon spurn him. Disillusioned and angry he leaves Athens for the wilderness, where a chance discovery reverses his fortunes . . .
In his most cynical work, Shakespeare explores the nature of money – its virtues and vices. In this production Jonathan Pryce gives an astonishing and acclaimed performance as Timon and is backed by an impressive cast under masterly direction.

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"A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,
To an untirable and continuate goodness.
He passes"
Jonathan Pryce
Norman Rodway John Shrapnel
Geoffrey Collins John Fortune
and
John Bird
Produced and Directed by Jonathan Miller
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
In credits order
John Fortune ... Poet
John Bird ... Painter
Tony Jay ... Merchant
David Kinsey ... Jeweller
Jonathan Pryce ... Timon
John Welsh ... Flavius
Sebastian Shaw ... Old Athenian
Max Arthur ... Lucilius
Norman Rodway ... Apemantus
Geoffrey Collins ... Flaminius
Terence McGinity ... Servilius
John Shrapnel ... Alcibiades
Hugh Thomas ... Lucius
James Cossins ... Lucullus
Donald Gee ... Ventidius
John Bailey ... Sempronius
Karen Johnson ... Amazon
Heloise Lombardi ... Amazon
Seeta Indrani ... Amazon
Corrine Barton ... Amazon
Caroline Reed ... Amazon
Tracey Robinson ... Amazon
Michael Anthony ... Caphis
Bev Willis ... Varro's Servant
Andrew Manson ... Isidore's Servant
David Neal ... First Senator
John Justin ... Second Senator
Cornelius Garrett ... Prisoner
Elayne Sharling ... Phrynia
Diana Dors ... Timandra
David Kincaid ... First Bandit
Derek Deadman ... Second Bandit
Gil Morris ... Soldier

Director: Jonathan Miller
Produced: Jonathan Miller
Adapted: William Shakespeare’s original play
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William Shakespeare
Hys Most Excellent
The Life of
Timon
Of ATHENS

ABOUT TIMON OF ATHENS
The story of Timon was well known and had been told in an anonymous play, which seems to have at one of the Inns of Court in 1692 or 1603; Middleton has even been suggested as its author.
The classical sources of Timon’s story are a brief anecdotal passage in Plutarch’s Life of Mark Antony. Timon of Athens is an exceptionally schematic play falling into two sharply contrasting parts, the second a kind of mirror image of the first.

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