Channel 4 TV Drama
Directed by Benjamin Ross
Production Design by Nina Kobiashvili

Location Build / Dress / UK

Year: 2008
Country: United Kingdom
Running time: 89 Minutes
Genres: Black Comedy, Buddy Picture
Program: Contemporary World Cinema
Production Company: Cowboy Films
Director: Benjamin Ross
Producer: Charles Steel, Alasdair Flind
Production Design: Nina Kobiashvili
Editor: David Charap
Screenwriter: Sarah Williams
Cinematographer: Danny Cohen
Music: Molly Nyman, Harry Escott
Principal Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin, Naomie Harris, Adrian Scarborough, Tessa Peake Jones, Jonathan Cullen, Joseph Altin, Darrell D’Silva

Awards: Santa Barbara Film Festival 2009 (Best Film)

Poppy Shakespeare is a funny, original and moving drama taking a candid look at life from the perspective of a patient on the psychiatric ward of a north London day hospital, based on the best-selling novel by Clare Allan, and from the producers of Film 4’s Oscar-winning The Last King of Scotland. The Drama stars Naomi Harris (White Tees, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl, Miami Vice) as Poppy Shakespeare, a new and worryingly sane arrival to  the psychiatric ward, who turns up dressed to the nines, insisting she is not mentally ill. BAFTA Award winner for her role Anna Maxwell Martin (Becoming Jane, Bleak House) plays 13-year veteran of the hospital, self-confessed “dribbler”, who severed links with the outside  world many years ago and has since made it her sole  ambition never to be discharged.