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Documentary. A film about a group of mentally handicapped people whose therapy includes exploring the roles they play in a production of Hamlet.
Feature film adapted from the novel by John Barth. Jacob Horner (Keach) is an emotionally disturbed young college professor who enters a catatonic state and undergoes therapy from an unorthodox psychologist,...
Independent fiction short. Four Elizabethan office workers find themselves in the high-rise office of a 16th-century therapist who bears a close resemblance to Shakespeare. They undergo group therapy in...
Radio documentary. Twice a week for almost ten years 61-year-old actor Bob Smith (author of the memoir Hamlet’s Dresser) has travelled to New York City from his home in Connecticut to read Shakespeare with...
Chris Ledgard follows a group of former soldiers who, as the Combat Veteran Players, are attempting to tackle the symptoms of post-traumatic stress by rehearsing and performing Shakespeare’s Henry V, with...
A short film about a little girl, who will only speak in Shakespearean verse. Desperate to make her daughter behave normally, the little girl’s mother appeals to her priest but he is no match for her...
Feature film. Theological thriller in which some critics have seen parallels with Hamlet in its theme of madness. In a gothic castle called Center 18, the US military attempts to establish whether a group...
Educational film. Two mothers wonder if there is a place in the education system for their two sons. Isaac Larsen and Willie Smith have Down syndrome. The boys are admitted to a "regular" elementary school...
Documentary film about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001), a theatre project for which Schlingensief engaged several neo-nazis as amateur actors. In the theatre production...
Documentary. A performance of scenes from Julius Caesar by inmates of the Roman maximum security prison Rebibbia. One of them comments: ‘Ever since I discovered art this cell has truly become a prison’....
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