The film, starring Sinead Matthews and BAFTA Award-winner Monica Dolan, is the first of four new films to be launched throughout 2013 in partnership with the Guardian, and supported by Bloomberg.
Jude Law will star in the next short film later this year, written by the fearless Belarus Free Theatre and Laura Wade (Posh). Hot on its heels, a new short written and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, who stars in Aimé Césaire's masterpiece A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic this summer.
The Young Vic/Guardian short film partnership is a unique creative collaboration which gives exceptional theatrical talent an opportunity to work in the field of film, says the Guardian.
The brief for each film is simple: to make a short film inspired by a Young Vic show which is bold in its approach. By pairing them with leading professionals in the film industry, theatre directors are provided with a platform to showcase their talent to a large international audience on the Guardian website. The films are edited by the Guardian's multimedia team and are hosted on both the Guardian and Young Vic websites.
The partnership began in March 2012 with Epithet – a short film inspired by Edward Bond's Bingo starring Patrick Stewart, directed by Angus Jackson, written by Mark O Rowe (Boy A, Intermission) and filmed by BAFTA award-winning cinematographer David Higgs.
This was followed by Nora in October 2012, a short inspired by Carrie Cracknell's critically-acclaimed production of Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Young Vic, written by Cracknell and Nick Payne (Constellations), and starring Olivier nominee Hattie Morahan in the title role. Since its launch it has been viewed over 40,000 times.
Young Vic Artistic Director, David Lan, said: "If we have a policy at the Young Vic it's to do things we've never done before. We'd never made films. Offering our directors a chance to make these short films has moved us all on in excitingly unexpected ways. We have three physical stages in the Young Vic. Our short films are becoming our fourth. We are particularly grateful for the support Bloomberg have given us, enabling this brilliant new lease of creative life."
Andrew Dickson, Guardian News & Media's theatre editor, said: "This is a fantastic creative partnership which we're proud to be a part of. The quality of the shorts is incredibly high, and it's great to be able to help create content that takes theatre to new places. The partnership is also testament to the talent of our award-winning multimedia team and our increasingly diverse range of digital output."
