Watch this online showcase in which Intermission Youth graduates and cohort members perform a Shakespeare Monologue Slam.

Sixteen performers take part in this creative challenge in front of a panel of industry professionals. Providing feedback are actor Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Gangs of London for Sky Atlantic), actor Jenny Agutter (Call the Midwife, Spooks, The Railway Children), and director and Intermission Youth graduate Abigail Sewell (The Merchant of Venice for RSC, Pa-Lah at Royal Court, I AM [NOT] KANYE WEST at Bunker Theatre).

Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance answers questions from the audience.

Available on Intermission Youth YouTube channel.

We are so grateful for the generous support of Mark Rylance to make this possible.

Ten short films, made on smartphones, each inspired by a line of Shakespeare, from Intermission Youth's filmmakers.

Premiered at the London Short Film Festival January 2021.

These 5-minute films were made during 2020, a year in which extraordinary events affected each and every one of us. From a deadly virus to a global equal rights movement, our world - its systems and its people - have been challenged.

Some films have been removed due to being submitted to Film Festivals.

HEY A

STATE

BLOODY NOSES

YEAR OF THE RAT

JOY

MUSTARD

NIGGER NIGGA

THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN​