The Beggar's Opera 1953  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama
Director: Peter Brook
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway, George Devine, Mary Clare, Hugh Griffith, Athene Seyler, Dorothy Tutin, Margot Grahame, Yvonne Furneaux, George Rose, Edward Pryor, Daphne Anderson, Eric Pohlmann, Stuart Burge, Gerald Lawson
Based on John Gay's 18th-century opera, this is the story of highwayman Captain MacHeath (Laurence Olivier) who loves the beggar king Peachum's (George Devine) daughter Polly (Dorothy Tutin) but is also interested in Lucy (Daphne Anderson) who is the daughter of the corrupt constable Mr. Lockit (Stanley Holloway). When Polly and Lucy join forces, they manage to have MacHeath sent to prison and condemned to a hanging. While in prison, The Beggar (Hugh Griffith) entertains MacHeath with an opera featuring MacHeath as a hero, and soon after MacHeath is rescued from his death sentence.
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 King Lear 1971  PG, 136 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Brook
Cast: Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Susan Engel, Anne-Lise Gabold, Jack MacGowran, Alan Webb, Cyril Cusack, Patrick Magee, Tom Fleming, Ian Hogg, Soren Elung Jensen, Robert Langdon Lloyd, Barry Stanton
Paul Scofield plays the aging King Lear, father of three very ambitious daughters Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia (Irene Worth, Susan Engel, and Anne-Lise Gabold). Lear bases the decision for whom to leave his kingdom to on who loves him the most. Cordelia won't play her father's game, and he exiles her. Now, Goneril and Regan deceive Lear and plot to take away all of his power. Meanwhile, Gloucester (Alan Webb) and his two sons Edmund and Edgar (Ian Hogg and Robert Langdon Lloyd) have their own problems, which are also based on unfaithfulness and scheming against the father. This intricate Shakespeare play is staged in an interesting manner.
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Lord of the Flies 1963 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Peter Brook
Cast: James Aubrey, Hugh Edwards, Tom Chapin, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman, Roger Allen, David Brunjes, Peter Davy, Kent Fletcher, Nicholas Hammond, Christopher Harris, Jonathan Heaps, Alan Heaps, Andrew Home, Burnes Hollyman
Their plane crashes, and the adults aboard are killed, which leaves English schoolboys marooned on an island. Ralph (James Aubrey) is elected "chief," and Jack (Tom Chapin) leads a group on a hunt for pigs to butcher for food. As the boys struggle to survive, they split into two groups with Jack representing savagery and Ralph representing civilization in a bitter battle for dominance and survival on the island.
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| 1. The Beggar's Opera (1953)
2. King Lear (1971)
3. Lord of the Flies (1963)
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