Performance Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1

Tales from Hollywood

Mon, Oct 19, 1992113 mins

A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.

Episode 2

A Doll's House

Sun, Mar 29, 1992140 mins

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.

Episode 3

Roots

105 mins

Episode 4

After the Dance

115 mins

Episode 5

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Tue, Apr 2, 1996

Six fictional characters in an unwritten play appear to a theatrical company and demand that the company act out the characters' tragic story.