August Wilson 2003
August Wilson, Kate Roth Knull, Bill D Moyers, Public Affairs Television (Firm), WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.), and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Bill Moyers interviews playwright August Wilson on the importance of the blues in Wilson's life and his writing. Also talks about finding an African-American cultural identity and what Wilson sees as the false portrayal of black Americans on television. 1 videodisc (30 min.)
MEDIA 10-643
Brother bread, sister puppet 2007
Jeff Farber, Grace Paley, Cheap Cinematography Productions, and Cinema Guild
Documentary on the Bread and Puppet Theater company, highlighting its production of "Our Domestic Resurrection Circus," an annual festival held at its home in northern Vermont. In addition to excerpts from the day's performances, the program includes glimpses behind the scenes: bread-baking; making puppets, flags, and costumes; rehearsals; and other preparations. The documentary also discusses the origins and early years of the company, which was founded by Peter Schumann in New York City in the early 1960s; its growing political activism and community involvement; and its character as a non-traditional theater company offering a blend of entertainment and political commentary. 1 videodisc (60 min.)
MEDIA 10-1426
Bunraku the classical puppets of Japan c1973
Merrill Brockway, Faubion Bowers, Kazuko Hillyer International, and Creative Arts Television (Firm)
"Filmed study of Bunraku, the classical Japanese puppet art, which uses three-quarters life-sized figures, handled by black-clothed manipulators who remain in plain view of the audience, convention rendering them invisible. These scenes trace Bunraku from the making of the puppets and the way in which their limbs are articulated, to their costuming and reflections on their relationship to kabuki theater. It includes complete performances of works for Bunraku."--Creative Arts Television online catalog. 1 videodisc (30 min.)
MEDIA 10-1509
Caribbean eye: Dramatic actions c1991
Ken Corsbie, Tony Hall, Christopher Laird, Bruce Paddington, Banyan Archives, Banyan Productions (Firm), and Unesco
"Drama pre-history in folk festivals is followed through the formal theatre of playwright and entertainer to popular theatre for social action"--Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 29 min.)
MEDIA 10-1136
Como querem beber agua Augusto Boal and Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro 2003
Augusto Boal, Ronaldo Morelos, Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Innovation in the Arts, Australia Council, Performing Arts Board, and Contemporary Arts Media (Firm)
In 1994 Morelos spent five months in Rio de Janeiro, observing and documenting the work of Augusto Boal and the Centro de Teatro do Oprimido. This was the time of the Brazilian national elections, and a year and a half into Boal's term as a Vereador (Councilor) of the Legislative Chamber of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Record of the work of a theatre maestro undertaking a daring and difficult experiment in overtly melding the concerns of theatre, therapy, and politics. An account of a theatre company that is elected into public office, a story from the world of Theatre of the Oppressed. 1 videodisc (53 min.)
MEDIA 10-1186
Les deux voyages de Jacques Lecoq c2006
Documentary film in two parts featuring Jacques Lecoq and his students at l'École internationale de Théâtre, which he founded in Paris in 1956. 1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.)
MEDIA 10-4538
Eugene O'Neill a documentary film 2006, c2005
Ric Burns, Arthur Gelb, Barbara Gelb, Marilyn Ness, Steve Rivo, Robin Espinola, Mary Recine, Christopher Plummer, Al Pacino, Zoe Caldwell, Robert Sean Leonard, Callie Thorne, Vanessa Redgrave, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Jason Robards, Brian Keane, Steeplechase Films Inc, and PBS Home Video
Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity. 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.)
MEDIA 10-2138
First breeze of summer 2003
Lindsay Law, Douglas Turner Ward, Kirk Browning, Moses Gunn, Frances Foster, Janet League, Hal Holbrook, Leslie Lee, Negro Ensemble Company, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Educational Broadcasting Corporation, Broadway Theatre Archive, and Kultur International Films
Deals with the conflicts between a stern, hard-working father and his two discontented sons. Also tells the story of the man's elderly mother who recalls, through flashbacks the romances of her youth with three different men who all abandoned her. 1 videodisc (90 min.)
MEDIA 10-994
How to build a standard flat c2006
Bill Raoul, University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.), Instructional Media Services, and Broadway Press
This series of short how-to videos is designed to explain and expand upon building techniques found in Stock Scenery Construction Handbook. Each segment is short, less than ten minutes, and covers a specific topic. 1 videodisc (29 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3706
Il bacio di Tosca Captures the world of the "Casa di Riposa" in Milan, the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. Featuring Giuseppe Manacchini, Leonida Bellon, Salvatore Locapo, Giovanni Erminio Puligheddu, and Sara Scuderi, its inhabitants are singers many of whom had significant careers on the opera stage, re-living and re-enacting their triumphant roles of the glorious past. 1 videodisc (87 min.)
MEDIA 10-5662
The lovers' exile 2006
Marty Gross, T oru Takemitsu, Tamao Yoshida, Minnosuke Yoshida, Kanj ur o Kiritake, Oritay u Takemoto, Koshiji Day u Takemoto, Mojiday u Takemoto, Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Kokuritsu Bunraku Gekij?o (Osaka, Japan), and Marty Gross Productions
The story, one Chikamatsu's domestic tragedies, recounts the love between a penniless clerk and an indentured prostitute. In Bunraku, as the reciter tells the story, the master holds the puppet against his chest, and his right arm gives life to the right arm of the puppet. His two assistants are clothed in black; one assistant gives life to the left arm of the puppet, the other gives life to the body, skirts, or legs. 1 videodisc (90 min.)
MEDIA 10-1419
The master builder 2003
E. G Marshall, Lois Smith, Phyllis Love, Fred Stewart, Victor Kilian, James Patterson, Joanna Roos, Lewis Freedman, John Stix, Henrik Ibsen, National Telefilm Associates, Talent Associates, Broadway Theatre Archive, and Kultur International Films
An aging buider is reaching for love while clinging to a career that is on the verge of collapse. 1 videodisc (103 min.)
MEDIA 10-996
A new kind of listening c2009
"A new kind of listening takes us inside the Community Inclusive Theater Group as director Richard Reho inspires cast members - some with disabilities- to be writers, actors, and dancers in an original collaborative performance piece. Chris, a young man who has never spoken a word and has been mislabeled profoundly mentally retarded, breaks through into stunning self-expression. Together they prove that a small community arts initiative has the power to transform lives"--Container. 1 videodisc (57 min.)
MEDIA 10-3928
Noh the classical theatre of Japan : selected excerpts performed by Akira Matsui c1980, 200-?
Akira Matsui, Larry McMullen, Farley P Richmond, Zeami, Nobumitsu K?ojiro, Michigan State University, Dept. of Theatre, Michigan State University, Instructional and Public Television, and Insight Media (Firm)
Akira Matsui of the Kita Noh School performs excerpts from the Noh dramas Benkei on the Bridge and The Lady Han to give better insight into classic Japanese theatre. 1 videodisc (29 min.)
MEDIA 10-1417
Please don't beat me, sir! c2011
"Over sixty million Indians belong to communities imprisoned by the British as "criminals by birth.' The Chhara of Ahmedabad, in Western India, are one of 198 such 'criminal tribes.' Declaring that they are 'born actors, ' not 'born criminals, ' a group of Chhara youth have turned to street theater in their fight against police brutality, corruption, and the stigma of criminality--a stigma internalized by their own grandparents. Please don't beat me, Sir! follows the lives of these young actors and their families as they take their struggle to the streets, hoping their plays will spark a revolution"--Container. 1 videodisc (75 min.)
MEDIA 10-4747
The Second City first family of comedy c2006
Second City has spawned generations of great comedians. Join hosts (and Second City alums) Dave Thomas, Scott Thompson, and Joe Flaherty for an uproarious, behind-the-scenes history of the troupe that incubated more than four decades' worth of funny people."--Container. 1 videodisc (128 min.)
MEDIA 10-3897
Stages of theatre Medieval & Renaissance c2005
Richard C Beacham, Michael Takeo Magruder, King's College London, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Professor Richard Beacham of King's College London surveys the evolution of Elizabethan and Renaissance stage formations and the conventions they established. Depicts the Globe, the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, and the Teatro Farnese in Parma. Program studies the importance of Sebastio Serlio and Inigo Jones to the history of stage design. 1 videodisc (20 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3317
La sueur de l'ombre la machinerie du théâtre au XVIIčme sičcle 2003?
Christian Jean, Marie-Thérčse Keller, and Marc Ogeret
1 videodisc
MEDIA 10-296
Tanvir ka safarnama Tanvir's travelogue c2007
Ranjan Kamath, Habiba Tanavira, Naya Theatre, and RKO Moving Media
Follows Habib Tanvir and his Naya Theatre on the road for two years in Europe and India as they perform his adaptations of Shakespeare, Brecht, and Indian Sanskrit classics. 1 videodisc (78 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2307
Theater in the palm of your hand glove puppetry in Taiwan = Zhang zhong wu chun qiu : Taiwan bu dai xi 2003?
Kan Ping Yu, Liping Chen, Stanley S. L Wang, Ginglin Chung, Hanson Production Co, Guang hua chuan bo shi ye zong gong si (Taipei, Taiwan), and Insight Media (Firm)
This video uses the history of glove puppetry as a window on important schools and styles of glove puppetry in modern Taiwan. It traces the origins of the Taiwanese form to Chinese immigrants who arrived during the middle of the Ching dynasty, discusses the adaptation of puppetry to television, and considers the use of special effects and modern marketing to keep the form alive. 2 videodiscs (114 min.)
MEDIA 10-1418
A touch of greatness c2004
Leslie Sullivan, Catherine Gund, Bernadine Colish, Robert Downey, and Aubin Pictures (Firm)
A Touch of Greatness is a feature-length documentary film focusing on the extraordinary work of Albert Cullum, an elementary school teacher for over twenty years and a pioneer in American education. Championing an unorthodox educational philosophy, Cullum regularly taught his elementary school children literary masterpieces, most notably the works of Shakespeare, Sophocles and Shaw. Combining interviews with Cullum and his former students with stunning archival footage filmed by director Robert Downey, Sr., the film documents the extraordinary work of this maverick public school teacher who embraced creativity, motivation and self-esteem in the classroom through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play. 1 videodisc (54 min.)
MEDIA 10-399
The tradition of performing arts in Japan the heart of kabuki, noh and bunraku c1989
Hajime Funatsu, Shin-ei, Inc, GPN Educational Media, Gakuseisha Publishing Co., Ltd, Shin Nihon Seitetsu Kabushiki Kaisha, B & CI, Inc, and NCS Video J/V (Firm)
A variety of traditional Japanese theater, this program presents the heart of Noh, Bunraku, and the total experience which is Kabuki. 1 videodisc (38 min.)
MEDIA 10-1459
Trust second acts in young lives 2010
Nancy Kelly, Kenji Yamamoto, Center for Independent Documentary, and New Day Films
"Trust starts in a theater as a group of teenage actors receive a standing ovation, then takes us back to the beginning, when an 18-year-old Hondureńa tells the company a story about her life that involved rape and incest. Amazing things unfold as these teens transform her story into a daring original play and learn to trust each other in ways you might never think possible."--Container. 1 videodisc (78 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3042
Two by Saroyan 2003
Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Orson Bean, Nina Wilcox, Eddie Hodges, Tamara Daykarhanova, Nathaniel Frey, Kevin Coughlin, Myron McCormick, William Saroyan , William Saroyan, National Telefilm Associates, Broadway Theatre Archive, and Kultur International Films
Once around the block: A middle-aged screenwriter gives unique advice to an aspiring young writer. My heart's in the Highlands: The story of an aspiring poet and his young son, set in California at the onset of World War I. 1 videodisc (100 min.)
MEDIA 10-992
Uta Hagen's acting class c2002
Uta Hagen, Pennie Du Pont, Karen Ludwig, HB Studio, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, and Applause Theatre Books (Firm)
Uta Hagen explains and demonstrates her approach to acting. Teaching examples are selected from almost two hundred hours of recorded classes. Scenes as well as all ten of her famous 'object exercises' are performed by her students, critiqued and then reworked. 2 videodiscs (ca. 180 min.)
MEDIA 10-646
A 14th-century Easter matins with The harrowing of hell and Visit to the sepulchre 1989
Andrew Hughes, David Klausner, Bob Rodgers , Alexandra F Johnson, Catharine Monahan, Stephanie Martin, Susan Korstanje, and Andrea Budgey
Includes a complete monastic Easter matins service, and the liturgical dramas The harrowing of Hell and The visitation to the sepulchre, written for the Benedictine nuns of Origny-Ste-Benoite in the 14th century, and performed in a liturgical setting. 1 videocassette (ca. 61 min.)
MEDIA 2-929
America Broadway and dramatic realism 2001
Richard Eyre and Chris Granlund
This program discusses dramatic realism on Broadway. 1 videocassette (ca. 51 min.)
DOUGLASS 240
American musical theater 1986
Presents a chronicle of the American musical stage from minstrel shows of the early 1800s through the theater of the 1960s. 1 videocassette (61 min.)
MEDIA 2-3940
American playwrights at Joseph Papp's Public Theater 1997
John Musilli, Joseph Papp, Margaret Croyden, David Freeman, John Guare, Myrna Lamb, and Neil Harris
This two-part program explores the goals and techniques of Joe Papp's famous enterprise in New York City, The Public Theater. Several plays are seen in excerpt form, as finished productions or as works in progress. Theater writer/critic Margaret Croyden interviews Papp and the playwrights whose work is seen. The plays highlighted are David Freeman's "Jessie and the bandit queen", John Guare's "Rich and famous", Myrna Lamb's "Apple pie" and Neil Harris's "So nice they named it twice.". 1 videocassette (54 min.)
DANA 1615
The Art of Kabuki 1993
Shuichi Kato
This program provides an introduction to the 400-year-old tradition of Kabuki, explaining its origins and purposes, its literary sources, and the meaning of its symbolism. The program shows the rehearsal, preparation of costume and wigs, and the performance of the Kabuki play. 1 videocassette (36 min.)
DANA 821
Artful resonance ; Image of reality 1992
Fran Dorn, Scott Hilton Davis, and William Scott Bealmear
"Artful resonance" is a dramatization of six poems that share the same subject. This helps clarify the difference between subject and theme. In "Image of reality," dramatizations of selected scenes from Oedipus Rex, Hamlet and The Glass menagerie, and an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson introduce the origins, structure and purposes of drama. 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min. ea.)
MEDIA 2-1744
Aspects of 18th century comedy 198-?
John Dietrich Mitchell, William Congreve, George Divine, Robert Manuel, and Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Juxtaposes scenes from two eighteenth-century plays, The false confessions by Marivaux and The way of the world by Congreve, to display their style, similarity, diversity, and relevance to contemporary high comedy, comedy of manners, and farce. 1 videocassette (12 min.)
DANA 1364
August Wilson c1994
August Wilson, Matteo Bellinelli, California Newsreel (Firm), Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft, Radiotelevisione della Svizzera italiana, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Playwright August Wilson talks about his roots in the black community, how his plays express the African-American experience, how the African heritage of Black Americans is both expressed and repressed in American society today, and the importance of blues as cultural expression. 1 videocassette (ca. 22 min.)
MEDIA 2-7461
August Wilson 2003
August Wilson, Kate Roth Knull, Bill D Moyers, Public Affairs Television (Firm), WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.), and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Bill Moyers interviews playwright August Wilson on the importance of the blues in Wilson's life and his writing. Also talks about finding an African-American cultural identity and what Wilson sees as the false portrayal of black Americans on television. 1 videodisc (30 min.)
MEDIA 10-643
Beginning the first season of plays staged by the Provincetown Players, 1915 1991
Neith Boyce, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, George Cream Cook, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Adele Heller, and John MacDonald
The first four plays staged at the Provincetown Plathouse on the Wharf in 1915 in contemporary productions. 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)
MEDIA 2-2086
Behind the scenes with Julie Taymor 1999
Julie Taymor, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, Penn Jillette, Teller, Learning Designs (Firm), WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), First-Run Features Home Video (Firm), and Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
A visit with theater director Julie Taymor who gives children a glimpse of her at work staging scenes from The tempest. Shows children the kind of visual theater created by using puppets, masks and music. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
DANA 2037
Bertolt Brecht c2004
Bob Portway, Clark Television, BBC Education & Training, BBC Worldwide Ltd, BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
"The German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer who developed the drama as a social and ideological forum is the subject of this program, in which those who knew him discuss his life and many works. 1 videodisc (53 min.)
MUSIC 113
Bettina Gray speaks with Luis Valdez c1993
Steve Kotton, Lonnie Porro, Bettina Gray, KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.), and Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Bettina Gray interviews Luis Valdez, the celebrated founder of the Teatro Campesino, the West Coast theatrical group that has given voice to the struggles of Chicano farm workers. As a child, Valdez picked fruit alongside his father in California's fertile valleys. In this program, he describes how he became a playwright and director and explains how his plays retrace the experience of Chicano families. 1 videocassette (26 min.)
MEDIA 2-7808
Between Brecht and Beckett 2001
Richard Eyre and Jamie Muir
This program examines the work of two dramatists and the impact they had both on playwrights and on the theater itself. 1 videocassette (51 min.)
DOUGLASS 243
Black theatre the making of a movement 1978
Woodie King, Joan Sandler, and Ed Pitt
The meaning of black theatre is discussed by accomplished playwrights, directors, producers and performers. Includes interviews with James Earl Jones, Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins and others. 1 videocassette (114 min.)
DANA. MEDIA 359 2-1978
Body language for actors: Portraying different cultures c2007
Norine Dresser, Alexandra August, Sean McHugh, Joel Asher, and Insight Media (Firm)
Diversity specialist and folklorist Norine Dresser explores how culture affects movement in order to teach actors how to portray characters from different cultures. She outlines differences in behaviors among non-U.S. cultures and introduces multicultural manners. The program covers such topics as greetings, shaking hands, physical contact between the sexes, eye contact, smiling, embracing, and kissing; it emphasizes that acceptable norms vary among cultures; and it examines cultural variations in eating customs, including the use of utensils and belching. 1 videodisc (31 min.)
MUSIC 184
Brecht on stage 2002
Richard Bessel, Amanda Willett, Helene Weigel, Karl Weber, Hans Mayer, British Broadcasting Corporation, Open University , and Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Bertolt Brecht wrote plays to challenge an audience, to make them think and see the possibilities of change -- what he called "dialectical theater." In this documentary contemporaries and scholars discuss his work and the methods he used to revolutionize drama in the 20th century, and its impact on modern theater. 1 videocassette (24 min.)
MEDIA 2-7459
Broadway the American musical c2010
Michael Kantor, Marc Fields, Laurence Maslon, JoAnn Young, Jeff Dupre, Sally Rosenthal, Julie Andrews, Ghost Light Films, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Nihon H?os?o Ky?okai, British Broadcasting Corporation, Carlton International Media Limited, and PBS Video
This documentary series details the razzle-dazzle history of a unique American art form. Each episode chronicles a different era and features the Broadway shows and song that defined the period. The series draws on feature films, rare television moments, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in creating the American musical. 3 videodiscs (ca. 120 min. each)
MUSIC. MUSIC. MUSIC 279 v.1 279 v.2 279 v.3
Brother bread, sister puppet 2007
Jeff Farber, Grace Paley, Cheap Cinematography Productions, and Cinema Guild
Documentary on the Bread and Puppet Theater company, highlighting its production of "Our Domestic Resurrection Circus," an annual festival held at its home in northern Vermont. In addition to excerpts from the day's performances, the program includes glimpses behind the scenes: bread-baking; making puppets, flags, and costumes; rehearsals; and other preparations. The documentary also discusses the origins and early years of the company, which was founded by Peter Schumann in New York City in the early 1960s; its growing political activism and community involvement; and its character as a non-traditional theater company offering a blend of entertainment and political commentary. 1 videodisc (60 min.)
MEDIA 10-1426
Bunraku 2003
Tamao Yoshida, Sumitayu Takemoto, Tomoo Ueno, Hisashi Miura, Takashi Watanabe, Mic Bond, Nihon Hoso Kyokai, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
"Presents the story of Bunraku through two of its greatest masters, puppeteer Tamao Yoshida and chanter Sumitayu Takemoto. ... Cameras go backstage to capture the immense preparations and grueling rehearsals for their rendition of the masterpiece Shinju Ten no Amijima."--Container. 1 videodisc (53 min.)
MUSIC 114
Bunraku the classical puppets of Japan c1973
Merrill Brockway, Faubion Bowers, Kazuko Hillyer International, and Creative Arts Television (Firm)
"Filmed study of Bunraku, the classical Japanese puppet art, which uses three-quarters life-sized figures, handled by black-clothed manipulators who remain in plain view of the audience, convention rendering them invisible. These scenes trace Bunraku from the making of the puppets and the way in which their limbs are articulated, to their costuming and reflections on their relationship to kabuki theater. It includes complete performances of works for Bunraku."--Creative Arts Television online catalog. 1 videodisc (30 min.)
MEDIA 10-1509
Caribbean eye: Dramatic actions c1991
Ken Corsbie, Tony Hall, Christopher Laird, Bruce Paddington, Banyan Archives, Banyan Productions (Firm), and Unesco
"Drama pre-history in folk festivals is followed through the formal theatre of playwright and entertainer to popular theatre for social action"--Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 29 min.)
MEDIA 10-1136
Commedia dell'arte 198-?
Benito Ortolani, John Dietrich Mitchell, and Giovanni Poli
Presents the gallery of stock commedia characters focusing on the Maschere, the mask characters. Giovanni Poli provides the authentic voice quality, characteristic movements, and gestures of commedia dell'arte. 1 videocassette (14 min.)
DANA 1363
Commedia dell'arte 1997
Julia Elisabeth Brabbins, Antonio Fava, Lisa Zuccoli, Teatro del Vicolo, and HUSH Video
Antonio Fava explains the history of commedia dell'arte and shows examples through his classes in this art form. 1 videorecording (53 min.)
MEDIA 2-6420
Como querem beber agua Augusto Boal and Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro 2003
Augusto Boal, Ronaldo Morelos, Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Innovation in the Arts, Australia Council, Performing Arts Board, and Contemporary Arts Media (Firm)
In 1994 Morelos spent five months in Rio de Janeiro, observing and documenting the work of Augusto Boal and the Centro de Teatro do Oprimido. This was the time of the Brazilian national elections, and a year and a half into Boal's term as a Vereador (Councilor) of the Legislative Chamber of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Record of the work of a theatre maestro undertaking a daring and difficult experiment in overtly melding the concerns of theatre, therapy, and politics. An account of a theatre company that is elected into public office, a story from the world of Theatre of the Oppressed. 1 videodisc (53 min.)
MEDIA 10-1186
The design of modern theatre Adolphe Appia's innovations c1992
Richard C Beacham, Peter Bowen, Rikki Holland, Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), and University of Warwick
"This program explores Appia's innovations: replacing the flat painted scenery and declamatory style of the 19th century with plastic environments for three-dimensional actors and actresses, using mobile lighting, and coutnerpointing visuals with music"--Container. 1 videodisc (50 min.)
MUSIC 112
Dignity of man and origins of African-American theatre 1991
Carol Bosley, John Scott, Yvetta, William Gentry, William H True, and Leslie Lee
Includes brief history of Black American performers, excerpt from Colored People's Time, by Leslie Lee. 1 videocassette (15 min.)
DANA 1369
Drama of the twentieth century 1972
Uses photographs of contemporary productions, key figues, and excerpts from the work of major plywrights to examine developments in modern theater. 3 rolls
DANA 45
The dream keepers 1999
Tracy Heather Strain and Vanessa Williams
From 1940-1965 racial barriers were steadily being broken and a stunning series of African-American firsts in all fields helped with racial inequities. Some fields, however, still remained closed. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4293
Edward Albee's all over 2001
Jac Venza, Phylis Geller, Myra Carter, William Prince, Anne Shropshire, Hal Holbrook, John Desmond, Paul Weidner, Edward Albee, Broadway Theatre Archive, Hartford Stage Company (Hartford, Conn.), WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), and Educational Broadcasting Corporation
In a large, elegant sitting room, a famous man lies dying behind a discreet hospital screen. Reporters and television crews are waiting downstairs to record the event for posterity, while gathered in the 'death chamber' are the great man's wife, mistress, son, daughter, and best friend, the family lawyer. 1 videocassette (110 min.)
MEDIA 2-7662
Emergence of the African-American performing arts 1991
Carol Bosley, John Scott, Yvetta, William Gentry, William H True, and Langston Hughes
Includes brief history of black American performers, and excerpt from Simply heavenly, by Langston Hughes. 1 videocassette (ca. 15 min.)
DANA 1370
The Federal Theater, File 891, and the Mercury Theater 1999
Elena Pinto Simon, William G Simon, and Ellen Adler
This film appraises the impact of the drama groups that flourished during the Depression and their lasting contributions to theater. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 1647
First breeze of summer 2003
Lindsay Law, Douglas Turner Ward, Kirk Browning, Moses Gunn, Frances Foster, Janet League, Hal Holbrook, Leslie Lee, Negro Ensemble Company, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Educational Broadcasting Corporation, Broadway Theatre Archive, and Kultur International Films
Deals with the conflicts between a stern, hard-working father and his two discontented sons. Also tells the story of the man's elderly mother who recalls, through flashbacks the romances of her youth with three different men who all abandoned her. 1 videodisc (90 min.)
MEDIA 10-994
For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf 2002?
Oz Scott, Lindsay Law, Alfre Woodard, Ntozake Shange, Lynn Whitfield, Laurie Carlos, Carol Maillard, Crystal Lilly, Trazana Beverly, Sarita Allen, Ntozake Shange, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), WPBT-TV (Television station : Miami, Fla.), Broadway Theatre Archive, and Kultur Video
The visions and frustrations of six young women who are trying to come to terms with themselves and with being Black. 1 videocassette (ca. 80 min.)
MEDIA 2-6697
From apprenticeship to the academy 1999
Elena Pinto Simon, Christina Rosati, Brooks McNamara, and Mary C Henderson
Brooks McNamara, expert on 19th-century theater, and theater historian and author Mary Henderson plot out crucial transitions in American culture between 1875-1914. The program also outlines the contributions of impresario David Belasco and the phenomenon of Sarah Bernhardt in the U.S. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 1646
Fuenteovejuna 1993
Juan Guerrero Zamora, Lope de Vega, Luis de Pablo, José Antonio Rojo, Eusebio Poncela, Manuel Dicenta, Miguel Angel, Antonio Puga, and Nuria Torray
A dramatization of Lope Félix de Vega Carpio's play produced for Spanish television about 15th century peasants who rise up against a cruel lord. 2 videocassettes (142 min.)
DANA. DANA 677 cassette 1 677 cassette 2
The future of theater but is it art? 2001
Richard Eyre and Roger Parsons
This program explains how plays have succeeded in holding their own while speculating on the genre's future. 1 videocassette (50 min.)
DOUGLASS 244
The golden age of Second Avenue 198-?
Bernardi Herschel, Molly Picon, Berta Gersten, Jacob Ben-Ami, Celia Adler, Jacob Kalich, Paul Muni, Menasha Skulni, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Arthur Cantor
"A chronicle of Yiddish theatre in America, from its beginnings at the turn of the century through its various declines and rebirths, to its present place in the folklore of American-Jewish life."--Container. 1 videocassette (70 min.)
DANA 1180
How theatre began an introduction to the history of drama 1985
Michelle Zapel, Arthur L Zapel, and Nancy Forderer
A series of illustrations with accompanying narration that detail the history of drama. 1 videocassette (17 min.)
DANA 560
Irish theater raw bones and poetry 2001
Richard Eyre and Mary Downes
This program describes the battle for an authentic Irish theater, a theater of the working class, with realistic language and gritty social and political content. 1 videocassette (50 min.)
DOUGLASS 241
Italy evolution of the theatre to Pirandello 198-?
John Dietrich Mitchell
Traces the evolution of the physical theatre from ancient Greece to the Italian Renaissance. 1 videocassette (20 min.)
DANA 1362
Jerzy Grotowski 1997
Merrill Brockway, Jerzy Grotowski, Margaret Croyden, Jacques Chwat, and Creative Arts Television (Firm)
Grotowski talks with Margaret Croyden while Chwat translates from the French. Grotowski discusses his theater, the relationship between director and actor, a playwright's function, and his ideas about the theater in general. 1 videocassette of (29 min.)
MEDIA 2-7437
Just do it! the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre 1996
Connie Leaverton and Mary Humphrey Baldbridge
Promotional video introducing prospective acting students to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. 1 videocassette (11 min.)
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The killing of Abel 1987
David Klausner, Michael Edmunds, David Parry, Jaimie Beaton, David Parry, David Follis, and Allan Park
Presents an anonymous 15th-century English play from the Towneley or Wakefield cycle, based on the Biblical story of Cain and Abel. 1 videocassette (ca. 40 min.)
MEDIA 2-5721
Laban for actors the 8 effort actions c1997
Blake Taylor, Gail Loadman, and Insight Media (Firm)
Presentation of a workshop for actors in the use of part of Rudolf von Laban's system to add variety and clarity to their physical work. 1 videocassette (ca. 32 min.)
MEDIA 2-7137
Little clay cart Mrcchakatika 1995
Sudraka, J. A. B. van Buitenen, Betty Bernhard, Kailash Pandya, Rebecca Ennals, Adriana Pepec, and Madeleine Oldham
A traditional Sanskrit play, written in 1400 by King Shudraka, performed by students in the Theatre and Dance department of Pomona College. 1 videocassette (116 min.)
Pantomime 1991
Derek Walcott, Paul Kafno, Bernard Kay, Raul Newney, Thames Television, ltd, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)
"This short play by Trinidad's foremost black writer is a metaphorical exploration of relations between black and white in the post-colonial world" -- Container. 1 videocassette (26 min.) DVD
MEDIA 2-6416 10-249
Paradise now 1970
Sheldon Rochlin, Julian Beck, and Judith Malina
This videotape was shot during the last presentations of Paradise Now in Brussels and before 7,000 spectators in the Berlin Sportspalast. Expressionistic coloring has been injected by electronic means. During the four hours of performance, a baccanal of forms and confrontations goes on in every part of the theater. Paradise Now is mind blowing and innovative blurring of the line between political action, psychotherapy, tribal ritual and experimental theatre. 1 videocassette (VHS) (105 min.)
DOUGLASS 61
Peter Brook conversations about theater c1997
Margaret Croyden, Merrill Brockway, Peter Brook, and Creative Arts Television (Firm)
An illustrated interview with the celebrated theater director just after returning from Africa with his Center of Research, a group of young actors based in Paris. 1 videocassette (29 min.)
MEDIA 2-7439
Peter Stein in Moscow c1995
Peter Stein, Marijke van der Molen, Krijn ter Braak, Insight Media (Firm), Reiner Moritz Associates, and Nederlandse Omroepprogramma Stichting
Shows in-depth interviews with Russian actors and Stein discussing his work on the first-ever Russian staging of Aeschylus's tragedy, the Oresteia. He explains the turbulent history of setting up this cultural exchange and the practical difficulties it involved. 1 videocassette (41 min.)
MEDIA 2-7473
Playing the part ; Patterns of action 1992
Scott Hilton Davis, William Scott Bealmear, and Fran Dorn
In program 119, the development of dramatic character by playwright and by actor is illustrated through several interpretations of a single scene from Hamlet and an interview with Shakespearean actor John Vickery. In program 120, a dramatization of Oedipus Rex demonstrates the classical plot structure. Dramatist A.R. Guerney discusses conflict and plot in contemporary American theatre. 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min. ea)
MEDIA 2-1745
Portrait of an Onnagata 1992
Nakamura Shibajaku, Ichikawa Mon-nosuke, Ichikawa Danshiro, Uemura Kichiya, Aoki Takayori, and Tineke Hulsbergen
Examines the role of the Onnagata in Kabuki theater, the male actor who plays a female role, who exemplifies ideal and ultimate womanhood. Because Kabuki theater is played entirely by men, the role of the Onnagata is very important. 1 videocassette (30 min.):
MEDIA 2-5272
Power of the African-American playwright 1991
Carol Bosley, John Scott, Yvetta, William Gentry, William H True, Lorraine Hansberry, Ossie Davis, and George C Wolfe
Includes excerpts from Raisin in the sun, Purlie Victorious, and The colored museum. 1 videocassette (15 min.)
DANA 1371
Present and future direction of African-American theatre 1991
Carol Bosley, John Scott, Yvetta, William Gentry, William H True, August Wilson, and George C Wolfe
Includes excerpts from the plays Fences and The colored museum. 1 videocassette (ca. 15 min.)
DANA 1372
Rehearsing the text 1990
John Carlaw and William Shakespeare
Concentrating on a scene from the Twelfth Night, presenter/director John Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in a discussion and reading of the lines in search of Shakespeare's clues to character, language, and staging. Barton and the actors demonstrate how verse itself is a clue to the meaning. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
MEDIA 2-1016
Rockaby 1982
D. A Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, Alan Schneider, Daniel Labeille, Billie Whitelaw, and Samuel Beckett
Shows the process of bringing Samuel Beckett's short play Rockaby to the stage, including early informal discussions, costuming, lighting, and rehearsals. Concludes with a complete performance of the work with Billie Whitelaw as an aged woman coming to terms with death. Included in the film are some scenes from Beckett's play Happy days, also starring Ms. Whitelaw. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-1776
Sam Shepard stalking himself c1998
Sam Shepard, Sarah Teale, Oren Jacoby, Edward Albee, Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), British Broadcasting Company, Teale/Oren Jacoby Productions, WinStar Home Entertainment (Firm), and Fox Lorber Associates
A documentary of the life and works of Sam Shepard; features excerpts from performances, Shepard reading from his own work, and interviews with famous friends and fans. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-7474
Sanskrit drama the vision of vasavadatta 1980
Bhasa, Mrinalini Sarabhai, and John Dietrich Mitchell
Examines the work of Mrinalini Sarabhai as teacher and interpreter of classical Sanskrit drama and dance forms. Presents segments of the play "The vision of Vasavadatta" by Bhasa. 1 videocassette (14 min.)
DOUGLASS 135
The serpent a ceremony 1972
Jean Claude Van Itallie, Joseph Chaikin, Roberta Sklar, Jac Venza, Open Theater, WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.), Educational Broadcasting Corporation, and Arthur Cantor, inc
Shows the Open Theater presenting The Serpent, a ceremony based on the Book of Genesis, by Jean Claude Van Itallie. Includes rehearsal scenes and interviews with the actors and the directors, Joseph Chaikin and Roberta Sklar. 1 videocassette (73 min.)
MEDIA D-344
Simon Callow on acting in Restoration comedy 1987
Simon Callow, David G Croft, Maria Aitken, Simon Callow, Gail McFarlane, Harry Meacher, Pamela Moiseiwitsch, Michael Stroud, and John Vanbrugh
Before a live audience, veteran actor Simon Callow speaks about the history and nature of English Restoration comedy. Taking scenes from The Relapse, by Sir John Vanbrugh as the text, he then directs a workshop of young actors and subjects them to his own rigorous and scrupulous appraisal. After the workshop, Callow fields some questions from the audience. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-2468
Sizwe Bansi is dead 1978
José Ferrer, John Kani, Winston Ntshona, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, William Hindman, Andrew Martin, John Davies, and Athol Fugard
Discusses stylization, avant-gardism, black theatre, and realism using Athol Fugard's play Sizwe Bansi is dead. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
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The Stanislavsky century 1994
Daniel Renouf, Peter Hercombe, and Robert Lanchester
The life and work of Stanislavsky are shown in film footage from his early years in Russia, his tours of France, and his years in the United States. Includes scenes from his productions of the Chekhov plays, Ibsen, Gogol, Hamlet, and other works. Describes his development of the acting system now known as "method acting.". 3 videocassettes (180 min.)
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Stanislavsky maker of the modern theatre 1972
Harold Mantell, Paul Rogers, Moskovskii khudozhestvennyi akademicheskii teatr, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Harold Mantell, inc, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Explores the life, times, and ideas of the theatrical innovator, Constantine Stanislavsky, who created method acting and founded the Moscow Art Theatre. 1 videocassette (29 min.)
MEDIA D-261
Steambath 2002
Norman Lloyd, Burt Brinckerhoff, Bill Bixby, Herb Edelman, Stephen Elliott, Kenneth Mars, José Pérez, Valerie Perrine, Bruce Jay Friedman, KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.), Community Television of Southern California, Broadway Theatre Archive, and Kultur International Films
Controversial comedy about 12 characters in a steambath which turns out to be a waiting room between this world and the next. 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)
MEDIA 2-7661
Stella Adler awake and dream! 200-?
Stella Adler, Merrill Brockway, Glenn Berenbeim, Catherine Tatge, Frank Langella, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Center for Documentary Media, Insight Media (Firm), and RM Arts (Firm)
A profile of the legendary acting teacher, Stella Adler. Includes personal interviews, film clips, and videos of her at work with her students. 1 videocassette (57 min.)
MEDIA 2-7472
Strasberg on acting c1995
John Musilli, Margaret Croyden, Lee Strasberg, and Creative Arts Television (Firm)
Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio, is interviewed about his career, the actors he has taught, and his ideas about acting, including Method acting. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
MEDIA 2-7438
La sueur de l'ombre la machinerie du théâtre au XVIIčme sičcle 2003?
Christian Jean, Marie-Thérčse Keller, and Marc Ogeret
1 videodisc
MEDIA 10-296
That girl from Andros 1994
Terence and Meg Twycross
"This performance of the archetypal Roman comedy, Terence's Andria, in its earliest English verse translation (c. 1500), was filmed at Rufford Old Hall, in the way and at the place where it might well have been performed in its own day."--Container. 1 videocassette (115 min.)
DANA 703
Theater in the palm of your hand glove puppetry in Taiwan = Zhang zhong wu chun qiu : Taiwan bu dai xi 2003?
Kan Ping Yu, Liping Chen, Stanley S. L Wang, Ginglin Chung, Hanson Production Co, Guang hua chuan bo shi ye zong gong si (Taipei, Taiwan), and Insight Media (Firm)
This video uses the history of glove puppetry as a window on important schools and styles of glove puppetry in modern Taiwan. It traces the origins of the Taiwanese form to Chinese immigrants who arrived during the middle of the Ching dynasty, discusses the adaptation of puppetry to television, and considers the use of special effects and modern marketing to keep the form alive. 2 videodiscs (114 min.)
MEDIA 10-1418
Theatre and the revolution 1990
Steven Kostant, John F Ross, Penelope Lane Czarra, and Robert Siegel
Explores the use of theatre in Eastern Europe for political purposes. Includes documentaries on the "Stalinist Show Trials" in the 1950's, the underground activities of actors and theatre troupes in the 1989 revolutions, and the avant garde plays of Eastern Europe today. 1 videocassette (50 min.)
MEDIA 2-2798
Le Théâtre de Tadeusz Kantor 1991
Tadeusz Kantor and Denis Bablet
Documentary on the life and works of a true genius of the 20th century Polish theater. Traces his roots as a visual artist in Poland and explores his ingenious methods of designing the props. Includes rare scenes of Kantor at work with the dedicated actors in his troup Téatre Cricot 2. 1 videocassette (147 min.)
DANA 1503
Three Greek plays 1997
Andrei Serban, Elizabeth Swados, Merrill Brockway, Margaret Croyden, Euripides, Euripides, and Euripides
Theater critic Margaret Croyden provides introductions and commentary to the performances of excerpts from experimental productions of Euripides' Electra, Medea, and the Trojan women. 1 videocassette (57 min.)
DANA 1826
The Three sisters 1978
Andrew Martin, Katharine Schofield, Jeremy Kemp, José Ferrer, and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Develops an appreciation of the playwright's craft in shaping the element of plot, theme and character. Uses Chekhov's play The three sisters as an example. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-2095
A touch of greatness c2004
Leslie Sullivan, Catherine Gund, Bernadine Colish, Robert Downey, and Aubin Pictures (Firm)
A Touch of Greatness is a feature-length documentary film focusing on the extraordinary work of Albert Cullum, an elementary school teacher for over twenty years and a pioneer in American education. Championing an unorthodox educational philosophy, Cullum regularly taught his elementary school children literary masterpieces, most notably the works of Shakespeare, Sophocles and Shaw. Combining interviews with Cullum and his former students with stunning archival footage filmed by director Robert Downey, Sr., the film documents the extraordinary work of this maverick public school teacher who embraced creativity, motivation and self-esteem in the classroom through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play. 1 videodisc (54 min.)
MEDIA 10-399
The tradition of performing arts in Japan the heart of kabuki, noh and bunraku c1989
Hajime Funatsu, Shin-ei, Inc, GPN Educational Media, Gakuseisha Publishing Co., Ltd, Shin Nihon Seitetsu Kabushiki Kaisha, B & CI, Inc, and NCS Video J/V (Firm)
A variety of traditional Japanese theater, this program presents the heart of Noh, Bunraku, and the total experience which is Kabuki. 1 videodisc (38 min.)
MEDIA 10-1459
The Trojan women 1988, 1971
Euripides, Michael Cacoyannis, Edith Hamilton, Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Genevičve Bujold, and Irene Papas
In 416 B.C., the Athenian army, engaged in a long and hopeless war, massacred the civilian population of the island of Melos in senseless reprisal. This incident drove Euripides to write "The Trojan women." Against the background of the sacking of Troy by the Greeks, he created a timeless indictment of the horror and futility of all wars. The story consists of three major episodes, each centering on the fate of one of the captive women: Cassandra, Andromache, and Helen. The three are linked by the central character, Hecuba, queen of Troy, who heroically withstands the tragic events. 1 videocassette (VHS) (105 min.)
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Ubu Roi, ou, "Les polonais" 1994
Alfred Jarry, Jean-Christophe Averty, Jean Bouise, Rosy Varte, Dirk Sanders, Lucien Billard, Marc Pavaux, Roger Dauviller, Claude Terrasse, and Jean Claude Pelletier
The absurdities and stupidities of mankind are explored in this surreal comedy in which the characters become puppets gravitating around the central figure, Ubu, who is himself a puppet. 1 videocassette (97 min.)
MEDIA 2-3915
Uncommon women and others 2000
Jill Eikenberry, Phylis Geller, Steven Robman, Merrily Mossman, Ann McDonough, Alma Cuervo, Ellen Parker, Swoosie Kurtz, Josephine Nichols, Cynthia Herman , Meryl Streep, Anna Levine, Hal Holbrook, Alexander Scourby, Wendy Wasserstein, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Broadway Theatre Archive, Phoenix Theatre, and Kultur Video
An adaptation for television of the Phoenix Theatre's production of Wendy Wasserstein's play about five friends who hold a reunion seven years after their graduation from Mount Holyoke. 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)
MEDIA 2-7653
Uta Hagen's acting class c2002
Uta Hagen, Pennie Du Pont, Karen Ludwig, HB Studio, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, and Applause Theatre Books (Firm)
Uta Hagen explains and demonstrates her approach to acting. Teaching examples are selected from almost two hundred hours of recorded classes. Scenes as well as all ten of her famous 'object exercises' are performed by her students, critiqued and then reworked. 2 videodiscs (ca. 180 min.)
MEDIA 10-646
The Vision quest ; A Frame for meaning 1992
Fran Dorn and Scott Hilton Davis
In "The Vision quest," Alaskan playwright David Hunsaker's dramatizations of Eskimo myth and his productions of Eskimo translations of Greek tragedies, together with scenes from Oedipus Rex, demonstrate the enduring power and meaning of myth in drama. In "A frame for meaning," dramatist David Henry Hwang discusses the themes and structure of his plays, which include M. Butterfly. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-1747
Voices from inside 1996
Karina Epperlein, Evangelina Horne, Dylcia Pagan, Aida McCray, Florencia Walker, and Guillermo Morales
'Voices from Inside' follows German-born theater artist Karina Epperlein into a federal women's prison where she began teaching weekly classes as a volunteer in 1992. Her racially mixed group of women prisoners becomes a circle of trust and healing. Epperlein also talks to the children of the women. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-3898
Walter Kerr on theater c1970
Walter Kerr, Robert Saudek, Joseph Anthony , Robert Saudek Associates, and Learning Corporation of America
Drama critic Walter Kerr comments on excerpts of five plays performed by top professionals. Mr. Kerr clarifies characteristics unique to the live dramatic form by comparing these scenes with film segments. Includes scenes from No place to be somebody, Prometheus, Richard III, The importance of being earnest, and The serpent. 1 videocassette (ca. 27 min.)
MEDIA 2-7542
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