| BORSTAL BOY Reg./Dir.: Peter Sheridan
Scen./Script: Nye Heron, Peter Sheridan
Fot./Phot.: Ciaràn Tanham
Mont./Ed.: Stephen O’Connell
Mus.: Stephen McKeon
Scg./Prod. Des.: Crispian Sallis
Int./Cast.:
Shawn Hatosy (Brendan Behan)
Danny Dyer (Charlie Milwall)
Robin Laing (Jock)
Lee Ingleby (Dale)
Eva Birthistle (Liz Joyce)
Michael York (Joyce)
Prod.: Pat Moylan, Arthur Lappin
Orig.: Irlanda/Ireland 2000
93’ / v.o. inglese / 35mm
FILMOGRAFIA
Filmography
1998
The Breakfast
2000
Borstal Boy |
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| PETER SHERIDAN Si laurea in Letteratura e Filosofia all'University College
di Dublino. Inizia in teatro, fondando e dirigendo con Jim Sheridan il Project Theatre
Company di Dublino dal 1976 al 1980. Negli anni 80 lavora come regista all'Abbey Theatre,
dirigendo, fra le altre cose, Diary of a Hunger Strike, Mother of all the Behans, e
A Child's Christmas in Wales. Negli anni seguenti si alterna tra il Charabanc
Theatre Company di Belfast, e il Royal Court Theatre di Londra, dove mette in scena i suoi
spettacoli The Liberty Suit e Emigrants. Negli Stati Uniti lavora all'Irish
Arts Centre e all'Irish Repertory Theatre di New York, al Los Angeles Theatre Centre,e al
Live Oak Theatre ad Austin, Texas. Recentemente ha diretto le opere teatrali The Risen
People (co-diretto con Jim Sheridan), la produzione principale del Dublin Theatre
Festival del 1994, e nel 1996 Brighton Beach Memoirs, interpretato da Carole King
all'Andrews Lane Theatre di Dublino. Peter ha ricevuto numerosi premi teatrali, inclusi il
Rooney Prize for Literature (1977), Abbey Theatre Writer in Residence (1980), e Arts
Council Literature Bursaries (1981 e 1990). Suo anche The Balcony Belles, un
documentario premiato della Temple Films. Nel 1988 scrive e dirige The Breakfast, il
cortometraggio vincitore del Prix Arte Europe Award al Brest International Film Festival
nel novembre '98, e il Don Quixote Award al Festival de Cine de Huesca, in Spagna. Breakfast
è stato selezionato tra 60 film dalla Federazione Internazionale di Società
Cinematografiche. Recentemente il cortometraggio ha anche vinto un Rocky Award al Festival
Internazionale Televisivo di Banff oltre ad essere nominato Miglior Nuovo Cortometraggio
al Galway Film Fleadh. Peter Sheridan è anche l'autore del best seller 44 - A Dublin
Memoir.
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Brendan Behan, un sedicenne
irlandese repubblicano, durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, partecipa ad un raid aereo
dall'Irlanda a Liverpool. La missione però va male e Brendan viene catturato e
imprigionato nel riformatorio nell'East Anglia, in Inghilterra. Qui si ritrova a convivere
con coloro che ha sempre considerato "il nemico". Questo confronto causerà un
profondo conflitto interiore, che lo porterà ad un esame di coscienza traumatico ma
importante. Rapito dal vortice degli eventi e delle emozioni, Brendan finalmente affronta
la verità.
Brendan Behan, a sixteen year old Irish
republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the Second
World War. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in
Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal
Brendan is forced to live face to face with those he perceived as "the enemy". A
confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a
self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and
Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to
the truth. |
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| Peter
Sheridan is a graduate of University College, Dublin, with an honours degree in English
and Philosophy. His early career centred on the theatre, and with Jim Sheridan he founded
and ran The Project Theatre Company, Dublin, from 1976 to 1980. During the 1980's he
worked as a director at the Abbey Theatre and his productions included Diary of a
Hunger Strike, Mother of all the Behans, and A Child's Christmas in Wales. He
then spent several years working with Charabanc Theatre Company in Belfast and in London
at the Royal Court Theatre where he directed his own plays The Liberty Suit and Emigrants.
In the USA he has directed at the Irish Arts Centre and The Irish Repertory Theatre,
New York, the Los Angeles Theatre Centre and Live Oak Theatre, Austin, Texas. Recent
theatre credits include The Risen People (co-directed with Jim Sheridan), the
headline production of the 1994 Dublin Theatre Festival, and in 1996 Brighton Beach
Memoirs, starring Carole King at Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin. Peter is the recipient
of a number of theatre awards including The Rooney Prize for Literature (1977), Abbey
Theatre Writer in Residence (1980), and Arts Council Literature Bursaries (1981 and 1990).
Peter directed The Balcony Belles, an award winning documentary for Temple Films
and in 1998 he wrote and directed The Breakfast, a short film which won the Prix
Arte Europe Award at the Brest International Film Festival in November '98 and the Don
Quixote Award at the Festival de Cine de Huesca, in Spain. The international Federation of
Film Societies formed a jury to select one of the 60 films and chose The Breakfast. The
short film has also just won a Rocky Award at Banff in the Short Drama section of the
Banff International Television Festival and Best New Short at the Galway Film Fleadh.
Peter is also the author of a best selling book, 44 - A Dublin Memoir. |
