Slings & arrows. Season 2
(Video DVD) 

Widescreen

Originally broadcast on television in 2005

Contains all 6 episodes from the second season

Special features: cast interview (Burns & Ouimette); deleted & extended scenes; production notes; cast filmographies

Score, Ron Sures ; editor, Christopher Donaldson ; director of photography, Rudolph Blahacek ; series created by Susan Coyne, Bob Martin, Mark McKinney ; based on a concept by Susan Coyne, Tecca Crosby ; songs by Greg Morrison, Lisa Lambert, Bob Martin

Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Susan Coyne, Leon Pownall, Matt FitzGerald, Graham Harley, Michael Polley, Catherine Fitch, Rothaford Gray, Mark McKinney, Joanne Kelly, David Alpay ; Don McKellar, Geraint Wyn Davies, Jackie Burroughs, Peter Keleghan, Eric Peterson, Colm Feore, Rachel McAdams, Luke Kirby

Now ensconced as artistic director of the New Burbage theatre festival, Geoffrey Tennant must stage the cursed play Macbeth to fulfill the vision of his deceased predecessor Oliver Welles. The actor cast in the lead engages in a titanic clash of egos with Geoffrey, while Oliver weighs in confrontationally from the grave. The festival faces a financial crisis that forces its CEO to engage in some risky business, while leading lady Ellen Fanshaw endures a life-altering tax audit. Adding to the mayhem is the return of the madcap guest director Darren Nichols, who stages a post-post-modern Romeo and Juliet after the original director breaks her neck. Could it be the curse of Macbeth?

Contains strong coarse language

DVD, NTSC; region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo

Closed-captioned

Gemini Awards, 2006: Best dramatic series ; Best direction in a dramatic series ; Performance by an actor in a continuing leading dramatic role (McKinney); Best performance by an actress in a continuing leading dramatic role (Burns); Best performance by an actress in a featured supporting role in a dramatic series (Coyne); Best writing in a dramatic series