Dying Like Ophelia

Dying Like Ophelia
Ophelia
Artist Sir John Everett Millais
Year 1851-1852
Type oil on canvas
Dimensions 168 cm × 112 cm (66 in × 44 in)
Location Tate Gallery

Dying Like Ophelia is a 2002 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.

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