Fast selected for WINDOWS Industry Showcase at Brighton Fringe Festival
Digital Drama is producing the new play Fast by Kate Barton at the Brighton Fringe Festival on 10th and 11th of May 2018. For tickets, click here: tickets Digital Drama are delighted that Fast has been selected for WINDOW, Brighton Fringe Festival's Arts Industry showcase. Fast is a dark psychological drama based on true events. Set at the turn of the previous century in an isolated region of the Pacific Northwest, the play examines the notorious ‘Doctor’ Linda Hazzard. Complex, beguiling and utterly driven, Hazzard advocated a fasting cure that gripped the press and divided the nation. Her ideas [...]
Silk, Satin and Suffrage Short Film Launched
To commemorate the 100 years since some women got the vote and the passing of the Representation of the People Act, Digital Drama have made a short film ‘Silk, Satin and Suffrage’ celebrating the women who designed, made and paraded the suffrage banners as part of their campaign for their voting rights. This video is being featured as part of the Votes For Women exhibition at the Museum of London. 100 Banners is funded by a £95,500 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and £2,900 from the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames. [...]
Deeds Not Words Wins at Imperial War Museum Short Film Festival
Digital Drama's Alison Ramsey has won one of only 5 awards presented at the Imperial War Museum's Short Film Festival for Deeds Not Words; Suffragette Surgeons of WWI. Close to 700 films were submitted this year, with 38 short listed and 5 awards given at the Festival's launch event at the Imperial War Museum London. Director Alison Ramsey of Digital Drama was awarded the prize for Best Use of Archive Material for the short film made as part of the larger Heritage Lottery funded project Deeds Not Words exploring the women who set up and ran the first military [...]