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A feature film of Macbeth made with serving prisoners in Northern Ireland’s maximum security prison, HMP Maghaberry.
Documentary. In Lepoglava in Croatia, one of the most notorious penitentiaries in Europe, many regimes have imposed brutal methods to further so-called prisoner rehabilitation. Three prisoners (two murderers...
Documentary. Twenty male inmates of the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in La Grange, Kentucky form an acting troupe and perform The Tempest. The film follows the inmates through a 40-week rehearsal...
Independent feature film farce. Jack Bandrowsky (Pine) has just finished a performance as Iago in Verdi’s Otello. Marvin (Nobbs) is a naive audience member who fails to understand that the characters are...
A prison project initiated and supported by London Shakespeare Workout led by Bruce Wall. In ANIMATING MACBETH, the epilogue (read by Kenneth Branagh) is written in iambic verse by Clare, a woman...
A video resource for students studying the short play ‘The Island’ , devised in 1973 by playwright Athol Fugard and the actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona. The video is filmed on Robben Island and...
A video-based resource pack in ten units examining attitudes towards crime and punishment and looking at the criminal and penal processes. Represents the views of victimes, criminals, prison staff, police,...
Second update of SCARED STRAIGHT! (1978), in which men and women who as juvenile offenders 20 years earlier met face-to-face hardened criminals in Rahway (New Jersey) State Prison. Narrated by Danny Glover.
Feature film. Alex (Grant), a London bank manager, feels nostalgic for the time when, as a university student, he staged a Shakespeare play in an idyllic English village. Deciding to repeat the experience...
Story of Carol Rigby, who in 1978 set fire to a wastebin while working as a nurse at the National Theatre, London. Convicted of arson and sent to Broadmoor, she examines what drove her to the point of...
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