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, produced by Veni Vidi Vici Motion Pictures and 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.
[edit] References
- Dying Like Ophelia. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 26 June 2006.
