Slings & Arrows. Season 1, Volume 1

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Originally broadcast on television in 2003.
Episode 1: Oliver's dream -- Episode 2: Geoffrey's return -- Episode 3: Madness in great ones.
Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Don McKellar, Rachel McAdams, Susan Coyne, Mark McKinney, Luke Kirby, Jennifer Irwin.
Based in a fictional Canadian town where legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure, to assume the Artistic Directorship after the sudden death of his mentor, Oliver Welles. When Geoffrey arrives he finds that Oliver is still there, in spirit anyway, and with his guidance (and often in spite of it) Geoffrey attempts to reconcile with his past while wrestling the Festival back from the marketing department. Despite a bitter leading lady, a clueless leading man, and a scheming General Manager, he manages to stage a remarkable production of Hamlet; the play that drove him mad.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.

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Wonderfully weird submitted by Impy on July 2, 2016, 10:53am I love this Canadian TV series. It's full of quirky characters, plenty of behind-the-sets interpersonal drama, and even a ghost. It's especially delightful if you're into acting or theater and drama. Paul Gross as the troubled actor / director Geoffrey Tennant is outstanding, and Martha Burns (Gross' real-life wife) as his lost love is bitingly bitter and cynical. I can watch this series over and over again and it is always a treat.

Not close captioned! submitted by acm on September 4, 2016, 8:45pm The DVD of this I just got is *not* close captioned, and I rather doubt that the other copy the library system has is. I've never seen a DVD from Acorn Media that had captioning.

Basically, do not believe the 'Video recordings for the hearing impaired' subject heading.