Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, The

Synopsis: A near-complete version of the play using 350 children from primary schools in Southwark, with no acting experience, as cast, extras and behind-the-scenes helpers. Designed, directed and filmed by Christine Edzard in her studio on Rotherhide. It begins with a group of contemporary schoolchildren watching lifesize puppets perform the play, and gradually some turn into characters they identify with, acting it out in an enchanted wood. Filmed around schoolwork over a period of nine months.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2002
Year of production: 2000
Notes: Budget $1.2
Documentation: Reviewed in the TLS, 29/6/2001
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: drama in education; schoolchildren; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Multicultural casting; Untrained actors

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