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STANDING STILL is a short, bittersweet comedy, starring Jonathan Slinger and Sinead Keenan. It follows the life of street performer Edgar Standing who makes his living as a living statue (as Hamlet) on the...
Animation. Ophelia 2.0 is an animated short inspired by the John Everett Millais painting. Ophelia is transported to the future of 2016; the viewer experiences what she sees and touches in the last moments...
A series of short vignettes in which six contemporary storytellers offer their interpretations of the word ‘fire’. Playwright Christopher Durang creates a mini-sitcom on the woes of inactivity;...
Feature film telling of the prejudices and Islam-phobia which is still deep-rooted among some sections of immigrant Indians in London. The director sees Life Goes On as a modern retelling of King Lear, for...
Floyd King, an actor with Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, in a one man show of songs, stories, recitations and other material related to Shakespeare’s life and work. The show Mad About the...
Anthology arts series. Examines why The Tempest, still holds such fascination for modern audiences. Melvyn Bragg investigates the events surrounding the writing of the play, including contemporary interest...
Audio podcast. Peter Graystone tries to answer the question, ‘What could Shakespeare’s plays and poems teach me about the Christian faith and the God who loves me?' He focuses on The Winter’s Tale and...
Televised adaptation of the play, produced and directed by Leonard Brett and Royston Morley and starring Clement McCallin as King Henry.
Radio drama. An adaptation, by Michael Frayn, of Anton Chekhov’s one-act play. An elderly actor, having given his final and benefit performance, falls asleep drunk in the theatre. He wakes up, still in his...
Feature film. Félicie works as a hairdresser in Belleville and has a five-year-old daughter. She is involved with a librarian, Loïc, and also with the hairdresser Maxence. But she is still haunted by the...
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