Learning on ScreenShakespeare in Afghanistan
- Synopsis
- Daily current affairs show. This episode focuses on the closed world of women in Afghanistan with the story of a Canadian director, Corinne Jaber, and her staging of Love’s Labour’s Lost in Kabul. Jaber’s challenge was to stage a play in Afghanistan, and to include in her cast Afghan women so crossing a cultural divide and translating Shakespeare to a society so different as Afghanistan.
- Series
- Our World
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Television
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Transmission details
- 18 Mar 2007 at 12:00 (Channel: CBC)
- Duration
- 30 mins
Credits
- Producer
- Sylvene Gilchrist
- Contributor
- Corinne Jaber; Kelly Crowe
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Plays
- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Afghanistan; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); women
Production Company
Archive
- Name
CBC Broadcasting Centre Archives
- Address
- 205 Wellington Street West
Toronto
Ontario
Canada MSV 3G7
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