Film Screening: ‘Poppy Shakespeare’ (Benjamin Ross, 2008)

Monday 10th March, 2014

6pm, Hitchcock Cinema, Arts One

Introduced by Dr Elena Carrera
Poppy Shakespeare is Benjamin Ross’s award-winning Channel 4 film adaptation of Clare Allan’s novel about a psychiatric day hospital in North London. Its protagonist, N, is given the job of showing the ropes to the reluctantly admitted, self-declared ‘sane’ Poppy, who has to learn to play ‘mad’ to be able to afford a lawyer who might get her out. In showing the mirroring relationship between these two ill-fated women as they cross shifting boundaries between sanity and insanity, the film mobilizes the viewer’s sense of alienation, and poses crucial questions about the role of empathy in mental healthcare.

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