Its strongest features are a bitingly ironic script, snappy direction, and exceptionally fine acting by BAFTA award-winner Anna Maxwell Martin and Naomie Harris. By Peter Brunette, The Associated ...

N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist ...

Benjamin Ross' "Poppy Shakespeare" was named the winner of the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at the 24th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. By Gregg Kilday, The ...

With her debut novel, Clare Allan proves herself a modern mythologist, here to tell a fantabulous fairy tale of the insane. Poppy Shakespeare is set in a North London mental hospital and narrated by a ...

Award-winning actress Anna Maxwell Martin will be the Guest Announcer on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and the actress has shot to fame with her impressive roles in Line of Duty, Motherland, ...

Dis/connected BBC3, 9pm Poppy Shakespeare Channel 4, 9pm AT first glance, bruv, Dis/Connected is, like, dis catch-penny attempt to connect wit' da same hip inner-city youth audience what is allegedly ...

Clare Allan spent 10 years going through the grind of the British psychiatric system. Not only did she survive, she went on to tell the tale in Poppy Shakespeare, her debut novel that satirises the ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

The line between sanity and lunacy blurs in this ironic debut novel, a British import whose obvious inspiration is Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The narrator is ""N,"" a female patient ...

“N” has lived in the institutionalised world of a North London psychiatric ward for years upon years, and doesn’t want to change a thing about it. The turning point in her life comes with a new ...