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

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

1998

Recording date

1 Jan 1991

Duration

26 mins

Credits

Director

Kumar Shahani; Shangara Singh Rapalon

Contributor

Cicely Berry

Cast

Akemi Otani
Andrew Cuthbert
Gina Landor
Janan Kubba
Jonathan Coulton
Samarth Alaknanda

Additional Details

Production type

Documentary/Educational/News

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Multicultural casting

Notes

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).

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.