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		Kalamazoo Stories - Comedy/Drama Chuck Bentley's magnus opus. Three hours in length. Forty-four actors in breadth. This fictional account of a moment in time in a midwestern city is as timely as the monetary collapse and the health care debate. It's a comedy. It's a drama. Much like life in the new millenium in a town called Kalamazoo. Watch Act I Watch Act II
		A Postcard from Beijing & Shanghai - Travelogue Chuck takes us to China just before the Olympics of 2008, when the great dragon is putting on his best face for the scrutiny of the world's press. The Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Beijing and Shanghai are all within range of Chuck's curious gaze. The smallest details are also proferred, as are inciteful observations and historical perspectives on this most interesting and increasingly important nation. Watch Online!
		Days & Nights in Venice - Comedy/Drama An author wrestles with his characters as he comes up with a storyline in Venice, Italy. The pace is quick, the dialog is witty and sharp. The characters are contemplating revolt. Shot entirely on location in Venice.
		A Postcard from Ireland - Travelogue Come with Chuck to Ireland. Stand alongside him as he drinks Guiness in Dublin, or surveys the wave-battered coast of the Burren and the mystical environs of Blarney Castle. As in all of his tavelogues, if you'll take that first step with Chuck, you'll feel as if you're acually there with him. Watch Online!
		Shakespeare Stripped Bare - Comedy Act one is the lounge act of the midnight show at the Fallen Angel. It’s all things Shakespeare, including Rusti Parker: the shrew who works blue, and a host of familiar characters. Act two goes behind the scenes of a radio broadcast on the life and times of Shakespeare. It’s broadcast live, so of course things don’t go according to plan. Watch Online!
		An English Mystery - Comedy/Drama A group of mystery players travels to the Lake District in England to write a new play. Amidst stunning scenery, they blackmail and double-cross their way to a finished script. Watch Online! Watch the "Making of" Video!
		One Night in a Pub: Who Killed William Shakespeare? - Comedy/Drama A couple of academics and a television producer have 24 hours to search a newly discovered hidden room where Shakespeare is thought to have died. We flash back and forth to Shakespeare and the very room 400 years ago to discover the truth. Watch Online!
		The Burne-Jones Window - Comedy/Drama It’s 20 minutes into the future as a cyber quest is played out by a group of user-selected cyber-sleuths as they attempt to solve the mystery of the Burne-Jones stained glass window in a tiny church in the English Lake District. Watch Online!Watch the "Making of" Video!
		Venice Preserved - Comedy/Drama A fictional group of players crawl all over the city of Venice as they work with each other to win a scavenger hunt for a cash prize. No one gets voted off the island or booted out of the house. They must cooperate or fail within the most gorgeous city on the planet. Watch Online! Watch the "Making of" Video!
		Sketch - Comedy/Drama Join the Electronic Theatre Players for an evening of sketch comedy with a twist. A psych prof is tempted by his sexy student (and their alter-egos), an astro-physicist discovers the mysteries of the universe (and his mysterious assistant), and much more. It's witty and intelligent,and doesn't pander to low humor. Adults only, please. Watch Online!
		Fiona’s Journal - Comedy/Drama A woman travels to England to inspect the property she’s been left in a will. She’s inherited an old mill, her great aunt’s diary, and an irascible Irishman. Set in the English Lake District. Watch Online!
		Mixed Company VIII 'I Hate Shakespeare' - Comedy/Drama Join Chuck and Michele for a merry romp as they introduce viewers to the work, life and times of William Shakespeare. Suitable for all ages 8-80, especially for anyone who thinks they hate the stuff. Watch Online!
		Carnival in Venice - Comedy/Drama Chris and Sarah are in Venice to video-podcast all the excitement from the biggest event on the calendar of this exotic city. The only thing is: they hate each other . . . or do they? Catch all the action as they navigate their relationship in this most romantic place.
		Shakespeare’s Longest Night - Comedy/Drama William Shakespeare is having a rough night. His players are clamoring for a new script, and his characters won’t let him get any sleep. In fact, they’re not very happy with the way they’ve been written. This is the movie version that Chuck took as a play to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Watch Online!Making of (Episode 1)Making of (Episode 2)
		Living in Venice - Travelogue Spend a week in Venice with Chuck as he takes you behind the scenes in the strangest, most wonderful city on earth.
		The Day I Left Kalamazoo - Comedy/Drama Michael’s fed up with the theatre scene in his home town. He gathers a group of players for one last production and proceeds to burn every bridge behind him as he leaves. Watch Online!Watch the Making of Video!
		Y2K-zoo - Comedy/Drama It’s the hippest coffee house /junkshop in town at the turn of the millennium. Will the computers go haywire? Will the world end? Will the coffee and doughnuts be fresh? Watch Online!
		Mixed Company - Comedy/Drama A man and a woman actor lock horns as they portray the socio-sexual politics in Shakespeare’s plays. It’s a romp through the canon with Kate & Petruchio by way of Richard III and Lady Anne. Watch Online!
		Prisoner of Conscience - Drama A modern re-telling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Set in a television studio, the lines of reality blur and refocus at thirty frames per second. Watch Online!
		The Anatomy of a Play - Comedy/Drama Behind the scenes, as a fictional group of theatre people portray every aspect of playmaking, from the writing and directing, to backstage survival tactics. The writer evokes Faustus’ deal with the devil, the director explains the juggling act of putting all the disparate elements together, and the actors talk about . . . well. . . themselves. Watch Online!
		Double Feature: For Love of Kate - Comedy/Drama A modern re-telling of Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew”, set in a motorcycle repair shop. It’s rough, it’s tough, it’s off the cuff. Watch Online! Notes to Myself - Comedy/Drama Two academics travel to Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford in an attempt to get a grip on their relationship with the Bard (and each other!). Watch Online!
		Double Feature: Afternoon in Venice - Comedy/Drama People on a tour of Europe arrive in Venice for some sight-seeing. In the span of a few short hours, each partakes in an adventure of discovery that will stay with them forever. Fallen Angels - Comedy/Drama A travel photographer in Venice for the first time meets a woman there for her last. We see through both their eyes, as they each penetrate deeper into the fabric of the city than they could alone.
		Double Feature: A Midlife Summer’s Dream - Comedy/Drama A modern tale based loosely on Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”. The mischievous Puck is frustrated in an attempt to play matchmaker for a pair completely oblivious to the magic around them. A Week in the Hills - Comedy/Drama A desperate academic travels to the English Lake District to seek out inspiration for her dissertation on Wordsworth. She’s impeded, frustrated, annoyed, distracted, and ultimately saved by a Wordsworth-hating Irishman.
		Double Feature: A Postcard from Paris & A Postcard from Amsterdam - Travelogue This is not your usual travelogue, as Chuck takes you with him to these two great European capitols. He shoots on the run and never looks back. You’re never an armchair viewer when Chuck’s on the job, as he makes your feel as if you’re actually there with him. C’mon. Let’s go! A Postcard from Venice - Travelogue See Venice as you never have before (even if you’ve been there!). If you want travel tips go to Rick’s videos. If you want to touch the stones and feel this place, travel there with Chuck.
		The Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Documentary/Travelogue Go behind the scenes as our production company tours to Edinburgh to perform in the famous festival. This usually staid, imposing city (it has a castle on a huge rock in the center of town!) is bursting at the seams and Chuck’s camera captures it all.
		A Postcard from San Francisco - Travelogue Chuck brings your eyes and ears with him as he rides a cable car through the city, climbs Coit Tower, and ventures into Chinatown, etc. If you want to see someone eating and drinking, go to the fine living channel. Chuck hasn’t got time for that. He’s too busy showing you the sites of America’s favorite city.
		Video Wallpaper (episodes 1 & 2) - Wallpaper Shots of England combine with the extraordinarily beautiful music of Randon Myles Chisnell to make a program for relaxation, or day dreaming.
		Video Wallpaper (episodes 3 & 4) - Wallpaper More shots of England as in Wallpaper 1 & 2.
		A Video Gallery (episodes 1 & 2) - Wallpaper A variation of the wallpaper series, but with the opportunity to explore frozen moments in time through still frames of beautiful locations in England.
		A Postcard from Boston and Vermont - Travelogue Chuck takes you with him (closer than you’ve ever been without airfare and hotel) as he walks the extraordinary Freedom Trail in Boston (on an ethereal rainy day), then floats through space into Vermont landscapes dripping with timeless beauty.
		Macbeth - Drama You are right there amidst the action as Chuck’s hand-held camera captures the dark and deep desires and the consequences in Shakespeare’s powerful evocation of lust for power. Watch Online!
		Othello - Drama You’re not in the auditorium watching from afar for this show. You’re right there with the people in the story, as they lie and cheat their way to blind jealousy and bloody murder. Shakespeare’s poignant tale has never seemed more immediate. Watch Online!
		A Winter’s Tale - Drama Chuck’s usual hand-held camera places you in the middle of the action in Shakespeare’s romantic tale, peopled with a jealous tyrant, loving but flirtatious wife, scampish rogue, and redemptive and all-loving daughter. Shakespeare evocatively captures the period in time when the ways of the rural past were being overtaken by the ways of the modern world forever. Watch Online!
		Tempest - Drama Float with Chuck’s camera over the sands of a mysterious island with airy spirits and strange creatures as they weave into and out of the lives of Prospero the magician and his young daughter Miranda. All is well until a shipwreck delivers Prospero’s enemies into his vengeful hands, and a suiter to Miranda’s hungry heart. Watch Online

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