Slings and Arrows

2003
4.5
2 reviews
TV-14
Rating
Eligible
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Slings and Arrows: Season 1 episodes (6)

1 Oliver's Dream
11/3/03
While Geoffrey Tennant stages The Tempest in a ragtag theatre, his former mentor, Oliver Welles, opens a lavishly backed but artistically hollow Midsummer Night’s Dream.
2 Geoffrey's Return
11/10/03
As New Burbage general manager Richard Smith-Jones takes over Oliver’s memorial, Geoffrey discovers that death has not completely silenced Oliver.
3 Madness in Great Ones
11/17/03
Geoffrey passes off the theatre's new production of Hamlet to flamboyant visiting director Darren Nichols. Kate and Jack take an afternoon off and feed the rumor mill.
4 Outrageous Fortune
11/24/03
Kate and Jack’s friendship moves to a higher plane, Ellen’s boy-toy defends her honor, and Geoffrey fires Darren, which reassures the cast but worries the board.
5 A Mirror Up to Nature
12/1/03
With Geoffrey taking up the reins of Hamlet, Richard and Holly are certain the production will flop. Geoffrey believes there’s more to Jack than they’ve seen so far.
6 Playing the Swan
12/8/03
Opening day for Hamlet has arrived, and Jack has disappeared. Ellen comes clean about what really happened on that fateful night seven years ago.

About this show

Winner of 13 Gemini Awards and showered with critical acclaim, this darkly comic Canadian series follows the outrageous fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and electrifying thrills that happen behind the scenes. Paul Gross (Tales of the City, Due South) stars as Geoffrey Tennant, the passionate but unstable artistic director of the New Burbage Theatre Festival. Haunted by the ghost of his predecessor (Stephen Ouimette, Cardinal), he struggles to realize his creative vision while handling touchy actors, a jittery general manager (Mark McKinney, Superstore), a pretentious guest director (Don McKellar, Sensitive Skin), and his own tempestuous romance with the festival’s leading lady (Martha Burns, Alias Grace). The backstage bedlam mirrors the onstage angst as Geoffrey directs three of Shakespeare’s masterpieces: Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear. Season-long guest stars include Rachel McAdams (The Notebook), Sarah Polley (My Life Without Me), Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Colm Feore (The Borgias), and renowned Stratford Festival actor William Hutt in one of his last performances.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
2 reviews
Evelyn McDermott
January 23, 2022
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