The Hobart Shakespeareans
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Directed by | Mel Stuart |
Starring | Ian McKellen, Michael York |
Original language | English |
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Producer | Mel Stuart |
Cinematography | Alex Rotaru |
Editor | Alex Rotaru |
The Hobart Shakespeareans of Hobart Boulevard Elementary School[1] is a 2005 documentary film that tells the story of the inspirational inner-city Los Angeles school teacher Rafe Esquith whose rigorous fifth-grade curriculum includes English, mathematics, geography, and literature. The pinnacle of student achievement each year is the performance of a play by William Shakespeare; in the year of filming, that play was Hamlet.
The Hobart Shakespeareans drew the attention of renowned Shakespearean actors Ian McKellen and Michael York, who pay a visit to the class to watch their performance of Hamlet. Delighted with the students, York calls the Hobart Shakespeareans "one of the great Shakespeare troupes" in Los Angeles.[2]
Rafe and the Hobart Shakespeareans work every year to perform a Shakespeare play. The recent plays they have performed were As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice.
The Hobart Shakespeareans aired on PBS' P.O.V. series in 2005. It was produced and directed by Mel Stuart.
References
External links
- Rafe Esquith and the Hobart Shakespeareans Official Site
- The Hobart Shakespeareans at IMDb
- P.O.V. The Hobart Shakespeareans - PBS website dedicated to the film
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- Cultural references to Hamlet
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- Language of flowers
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- Richard Burton (1964)
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- 15-Minute Hamlet
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
- I, Hamlet
- The Klingon Hamlet
- "Lyle the Kindly Viking"
- To Be or Not to Be: That is the Adventure
- "Tales from the Public Domain"
- The Skinhead Hamlet
- "My Robin is to the greenwood gone" (16th century)
- "Pull Me Under" (1992)
- "Song for Athene" (1997)
- Hamlet (Thomas)
- Amleto (Faccio)
- Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)
- Tristia (Berlioz)
- Die Hamletmaschine (Rihm)
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- Ophelia (Millais)
- Ophelia (Cabanel)
- Affe mit Schädel
- Ophelia (Waterhouse)
- Polish Hamlet. Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski
- The River Bank (Ophelia)
- Hamlet and Oedipus
- Hamlet and His Problems
- Hebenon
- Hamlet Q1
- Ostalo je ćutanje
- The Chronicles of Amber
- "Symphony No. 65" (Haydn)
- The Hobart Shakespeareans
- Gertrude – The Cry
- Poor Murderer
- Something Rotten!
- Sons of Anarchy
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