August: Osage County. The show made its UK Debut at London's National Theatre in November 2008. A US national tour began on July 24, 2009, with its first performance at Denver's Buell Theatre. Plot[edit] The action takes place over the course of several weeks in August inside the three-story home of Beverly and Violet Weston outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Prologue The play opens with Beverly Weston, a once-famous poet, interviewing Johnna, a young Native American woman, for a position as live-in cook and caregiver for his wife Violet, who is being treated for mouth cancer.
Violet is addicted to several different kinds of prescription drugs and exhibits paranoia and mood swings. Beverly, who freely admits that he is an alcoholic, lightly converses about Violet's current problems, most of which Beverly concedes are the result of personal demons too powerful to be cured by drugs. Act One Several weeks later. Act Two Several days later. Two weeks pass. Several days later, Ivy has dinner with Barbara and Violet.
Tony Mendez, the real CIA spy in Argo. 19 February 2013Last updated at 19:35 ET By Naveena Kottoor BBC World Service Argo, a film about the audacious rescue of six Americans hiding in Tehran after the storming of the US embassy in November 1979, is the bookies' favourite for best picture at the Oscars. CIA agent Tony Mendez, played in the film by Ben Affleck, explains how the rescue plan was hatched. Spoiler alert: key plot details are revealed below The six Americans in hiding had escaped from the back door of the embassy as Iranian revolutionaries broke their way in, and taken refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. But they were at risk of being discovered, either by Iranian revolutionaries or the international media. Much of the world's attention was focused on the several dozen embassy staff held hostage by Iran's new revolutionary regime.
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Warning: Data migration for current PBS account holders is a one time only event. Schedule: Find Local TV Listings. TV Guide | What's on TV - ITV. Call the Midwife : PBS. Downton Abbey | Masterpiece. Downton Abbey: Crawley family head to the Scottish Highlands for Christmas Day special. By Liz Thomas Published: 00:01 GMT, 8 December 2012 | Updated: 01:06 GMT, 8 December 2012 It is Downton but not quite as we know it. This year the Crawley family and a few of their best loved servants are leaving Downton Abbey behind and heading to Scotland for a break. The ITV1 show is expected to be one of the most popular on Christmas Day with an estimated audience of 10 million. Scottish getaway: The Crawley family and much loved servants are leaving Downton Abbey behind and heading to the Highlands for a break North of the border: Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville, third from left) and Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens, second from right) as the family visit their Scottish cousins at Duneagle Castle Only the BBC’s seasonal edition of Call the Midwife, which airs immediately before it at 7.30pm on the same day, is expected to beat it in the ratings.
Insiders said viewers would see tensions build up between the two tribes and there is even the suggestion of a new romance for Lady Edith. Sundance Channel gets ‘Restless' NEW YORK – Sundance Channel, best known for its documentaries and other unscripted fare, is about to present a deliciously suspenseful spy thriller that signals a new initiative for the network: more drama. “Restless,” a two-part miniseries that begins today at 9 p.m., would be an attention-getter if for no other reason than its blue-chip cast. Here’s delectable Hayley Atwell (“Cassandra’s Dream,” “Captain America: The First Avenger”) along with veteran thesps Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling, as well as Rufus Sewell (“The Pillars of the Earth”), who’s the very definition of a dashing leading man.
Plus Michelle Dockery, whose return next month as Lady Mary Crawley is eagerly awaited by “Downton Abbey” fans. But there is more to recommend “Restless” than its fine troupe of actors. Based on the best-selling novel by William Boyd, it weaves a double strand of intrigue set at the eve of World War II and in the 1970s. It’s a cloak-and-dagger saga chock-full of suspicion. Coming after that: Questions & Answers | ChaCha.