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Another Space for Shakespeare

Synopsis
Part of a series documenting key artists, issues and debates within the black arts sector in Britain, commissioned between 1988 and 1995. An experiment in staging parts of Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Series
Black Arts Video Project
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Video; Video. Standard formats. col. 26 min.
Technical information
Colour / Sound
Year of release
1998
Year of production
1991
Notes
The film (with full synopsis) may be viewed online on the University of Westminster Arts and Film Archive site (http://artsonfilm.wmin.ac.uk/filmsuk.php?a=view&recid=2 (accessed 10/2007).
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Multicultural casting

Credits

Director
Kumar Shahani; Shangara Singh Rapalon
Contributor
Cicely Berry
Cast
Akemi Otani 
Andrew Cuthbert 
Gina Landor 
Janan Kubba 
Jonathan Coulton 
Samarth Alaknanda 

Distribution Formats

Type
DVD
Format
Region 2 PAL
Price
£30.00
Availability
Sale
Duration/Size
26 minutes
Year
2012

Sponsor

Name

Arts Council of Great Britain

Phone
020 7973 6455
Fax
020 7973 6581
Address
London
SW1P 3NG

Distributor

Name

Arts on Film Archive, University of Westminster

Notes
Arts on Film Archive offers on-line access to a large range of films on art produced in the United Kingdom since the 1950s, and is a unique record of British and international post-war art, as well as of documentary film-making in the UK. In its first phase, the archive offers a complete database and an on-line video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE. The collection is only available streamed to ac.uk domain addresses.
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