A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (The Handicapped Person in The | Richard Argent | ACMI collection

Film content is scenes from the play “A Day In The Death of Joe Egg” by Peter Nichols. It provides an extremely rich and provocative learning resource in which the actors role-play sketches within the play to caricature situations faced by parents of a handicapped child Cast includes Romona Kaye, Harriet Buchan, Jack Shepherd.

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Credits

producer

Richard Argent

Duration

00:25:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

013271

Language

English

Subject categories

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped - Family relationships

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped - Rehabilitation

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped children

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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