Dying Like Ophelia

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Ophelia
Sir John Everett Millais, 1851-1852
oil on canvas
168 × 112 cm
Tate Gallery

Dying Like Ophelia is an award winning six-minute drama, directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, based on an excerpt of the play, Lion In The Streets, by Judith Thompson, two-time winner of the Governor General Award. Karyn Dwyer plays a young working class mother dying of cancer who wishes to die a beautiful and poetic death like that portrayed in Millais's famous painting of Ophelia.

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