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UNLV LIBRARY Akropolis. MEDIA RESOURCES CATALOG Mattapan Films (1968) THEATER ARTS Filmed live production of a drama Summer 2011 depicting prisoners in a concentration camp during World War II as performed by Acting in Restoration Comedy. members of 's Polish Applause Video (19??) Laboratory Theater. Also features an Taking scenes from The Relapse by interview with British director, , Sir John Vanbrugh as the text, Simon which introduces the performance. Callow directs a workshop of young actors 1 videocassette (60 min.) and subjects them to his own rigorous and PG7158.W8 A792 1971 scrupulous appraisal. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Albee, Edward. PN 2071 C57 S54 c. 1-2 Films for the Humanities (1996) Explores the work of Albee. He talks Aeschylus & The Death of Tragedy. about the influences of his childhood upon Jeffrey Norton Pub. (1963) his work, his years in Greenwich Village and Lecture on the Greek dramatist. his method of writing. Cassette (1 hr. 12 min.) Video Cassette (52 min.) PA 3829 K28 PS 3551 L25 Z474

Agamemnon. The Alchemist. Films for the Humanities (198?) Creative Arts Television Archive (1964) Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) Video Cassette (27 min.) PA 3827 A7 H37 PR 2605 A3

Agamemnon. All That Fall. Everett/Edwards Voices International, 1986 Lecture on the play. "An American national premiere of Cassette one of the radio plays of Samuel Beckett PA 3825 A8 C38 and a documentary about the play and its place in the context of Beckett's work"-- Ah, Wilderness. Guide in container. Caedmon (1970) 2 sound discs Performed by the Circle in the PR6003.E282 A84 1986 Square; Theodore Mann, Director. Text (19 p.) America: Broadway and Dramatic 3 Discs (stereo) Realism. PS 3529 N5 A7 Films for the Humanities & Sciences (2004) Ah, Wilderness. Theater director Sir Richard Eyre Everett/Edwards discusses dramatic realism on Broadway. Lecture/interpretation of the play. Through interviews and archival footage, he Cassette explores playwrights who looked at the dark PS 3529 N5 A78 side of the American Dream, then studies musicals and their early innovators. 1 videodisc (51 min.) PN2266.5 .A43 2004

The American Dream and The Sandbox. Everett/Edwards Lecture. Cassette PS 3551 L25 A63

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''And They Fight'' A Comprehensive Antigone. Guide to Theatrical Combat and Films for the Humanities & Sciences Swordplay. (1999) Dueling Arts International (2005) Cast: Juliet Stevenson, John [pt.1] Introductory video Shrapnel, and [pt.2] Broadsword A unique adaptation of the play by [pt.3] Rapier and dagger Sophocles about how Oedipus' daughter [pt.4] Single rapier Antigone defied the power of the state [pt.5] Small sword embodied in her mother's brother, King [pt.6] Bonus video Creon. 15 videodiscs (1,375 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr 51 min.) PN2071.F4 A53 2005 pts. 1 -6 PA4414 .A7 1999

Anouilh: Works of. Antigone. Everett/Edwards Films for the Humanities & Sciences Lecture on selected works. (2004) Cassette (38 min.) Presents the third of the PQ 2601 N67 Z747 three Theban plays by Sophocles in a contemporary translation. This final segment Anthony Hopkins: Talking with David of the trilogy centers around the conflict Frost. between moral and political law as Antigone PBS (1993) defies the power of the state as embodied in Hopkins talks to David Frost about his her uncle, King Creon. television, film and stage career and some 1 videodisc (111 min.) of the roles he has played. Also discusses PA4414.A7 T38 2004 his childhood, family, and future career projects. Antigone: A Tragedy by Sophocles. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Kino International Corp., [2004] PN 2598 H66 A57 Cinematic interpretation of Sophocles' immortal tragedy with a cast of over 500 Antigone. actors of the Greek stage and screen, as Caedmon (1967) well as soldiers and horsemen of the Greek An English version by Dudley Fitts Royal Guard. In the aftermath of a bloody and Robert Fitzgerald; stars Dorothy Tutin civil war that fatally pitted her two brothers and Max Adrian; Howard Sackler, against each other, Antigone defies a direct Director. edict from Thebes' King Creon. Her defiance Text (11 p.) of Creon and devotion to her shattered 2 Discs (stereo) family divides the city of Thebes, threatens PA 4414 A7 her sister's betrothal to Creon's son, and invokes the wrath of a king willing to defy the Antigone. gods themselves to satisfy his selfish Everett/Edwards vengeance. Lecture on the play. 1 videodisc (82 min.) Cassette (35 min.) PA4414.A7 T93 2004 PA 4413 A7 C38

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Antigone: A Tragedy by Sophocles. The Art of Kabuki. Kino International Corp., [2004] Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cinematic interpretation of Sophocles' (2003) immortal tragedy with a cast of over 500 "Provides an introduction to the 400- actors of the Greek stage and screen, as year-old tradition of Kabuki, explaining its well as soldiers and horsemen of the Greek origins and purposes, its literary sources, Royal Guard. In the aftermath of a bloody and the meaning of its symbolism. The civil war that fatally pitted her two brothers program shows the rehearsal, preparation of against each other, Antigone defies a direct costumes and wigs, and the performance of edict from Thebes' King Creon. Her defiance the Kabuki play, relates the makeup and of Creon and devotion to her shattered music to the overall scheme, and explains family divides the city of Thebes, threatens the esthetic of Kabuki art."—Container her sister's betrothal to Creon's son, and 1 videodisc (36 min.) invokes the wrath of a king willing to defy the PN2924.5.K3 A77 2003 gods themselves to satisfy his selfish vengeance. Aspects of 18th Century Comedy. Fordham University Press (1980) Antique Theatres of Greece and Rome. Juxtaposes scenes from two Kaidib Films International (1974) eighteenth-century plays, The false Shows the remains of classical Greek confessions by Marivaux and The way of the and Roman Theaters in Europe, Asia Minor world by Congreve, to display their style, and Africa. similarity, diversity, and relevance to Study Guide contemporary high comedy, comedy of 260 Slides manners, and farce PA 3202 A5 1 Video Cassette (12 min.) PN1922 .A86 1980 Anton Chekhov: A Writer's Life. Films for the Humanities (1983) Aspects of Neo-Classic Theatre Style. Probes the life and works of the Fordham University Press, (2000) playwright and shows the sources of his Shows scenes from Paul-Emile insight and the techniques through which he Deiber's interpretation of Racine's Phèdre to expressed them. demonstrate the neo-classical style. Video Cassette (3/4", 37 min. b&w) 1 Video Cassette (13 min.) PG 3458 A65 PQ1898 .A82 2000

Arms and the Man. August Wilson. BBC Video 2006 California Newsreel (1992) One night, a frightened Swiss soldier Interviewed on the set of his latest of fortune climbs into the bedroom of a play, Two Trains Running. Wilson traces young Bulgarian girl and soon deflates her the origins of his plays back to a troubled romantic notions about love and valor. The childhood in a Pittsburgh ghetto. Explains bonus play is set in 1796 at an inn where the influence of storytelling and the blues as Napoleon rests at the start of his conquest cultural expression. Describes his role. of Italy. Video Cassette (22 min.) 1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) PS 3573 I45677 Z463 PR5363 .A885 2006 Bacchae. Everett/Edwards Lecture on the most controversial of all Euripides' plays. Gives some biographical information and an interpretation. Cassette (33 min.) PA 3973 B2 C38

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The Balcony. BBC Sound Effects Library. Caedmon (1967) Films for the Humanities & Sciences Stars Pamela Brown, , (1991-1997) Cyril Cusack; Howard Sackler, Director. 1. BBC sound effects Essay on the author by Henri Peyre with 2. Exterior atmospheres English translation. 3. Household Text (50 p.) 4. Interior backgrounds 3 Discs (stereo) 5. Transport PQ 2613 E53 B313 6. Animals and birds 7. Human crowds, children and Barbra Streisand "Putting It Together": footsteps The Making of the Broadway Album. 8. Comedy, fantasy and humor CBS Fox (1986) 9. International Video Cassette (40 min.) 10. Communications M 1505 S87 P87 11. Water 12. British birds Barefoot in Athens. 13. Industry Films for the Humanities 14. Cities With Peter Ustinov, , 15. Rural atmospheres and . 16. Sport and leisure Video Cassette (1 hr. 16 min.) 17. Cars PS 3561 N256 B37 18. Bang! 19. Electronically generated sounds Barnum. 20. Weather (1) : winds Warner Bros. Films (1986) 21. Weather (2) storms Production starring Michael 22. Ships and boats (1) Crawford. 23. Ships and boats (2) Video Cassette (1 hr. 53 min.) 24. America M 1500 C64 B37 25. Aircraft 26. China The Basics of Draping. 27. Babies Media Center Productions (1993) 28. Hospitals Suzanne Pierrette Stern 29. Africa : the human world demonstrates classic draping techniques. 30. Africa : the natural world Covers straightening the muslin grain, 31. Equestrian events draping bodice and skirt, transferring the 32. Greece muslin to paper, and drafting a sleeve to fit. 33. Adventure sports Video Cassette (1 hr. 37 min.) 34. Livestock (1) TT 520 B27 35. Livestock (2) 36. Farm machinery 37. Horses (1) 38. Horses (2) and dogs 39. Schools and crowds 40. Spain 41. Trains –

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BBC Sound Effects Library. (con’t) Beckett on Film. 42. The age of steam Blue Angel Films (2001) 43. Construction "... cinematic interpretation of 44. Cats Beckett's plays"—Container 45. Emergency [pt.1] 46. Istanbul Waiting for Godot / director, Michael 47. Birds Lindsay-Hogg (120 min.) 48. Crowds Not I / director, (14 min.) 49. Suburbia Rough for theatre I / director, Kieron 50. France (Paris) J. Walsh (20 min.) 51. London Ohio impromptu / director, Charles 52. Exterior atmospheres : rural Sturridge (12 min.) backgrounds – Documentary / producer, Larry 53. India and Nepal : city life Masterson ; director, Pearse Lehane (52 54. India, Pakistan and Nepal : min.) countryside [pt.2] 55. Footsteps, part 1 Krapp's last tape / director, Atom 56. Footsteps, part 2 Egoyan (58 min.) 57. South America : urban What where / director, Damien 58. South America : rural O'Donnell (12 min.) 59. Hungary Footfalls / director, Walter Asmus (28 60. The Czech Republic and Slovakia min.) 60 sound discs : digital Come and go / director, PN2091.S6 B33 v.1 -60 (8 min.) Act without words I / director, Karel Reisz (16 min.) [pt.3] Happy days / director, Patricia Rozema (79 min.) Catastrophe / director, (7 min.) Rough for theatre II / director, Katie Mitchell (30 min.) Breath / director, Damien Hirst (1 min.) That time / director, Charles Garrad (20 min.) [pt.4] / director, Conor McPherson (84 min.) Act without words II / director, Enda Hughes (11 min.) A piece of monologue / director, Robin Lefèvre (20 min.) Play / director, Anthony Minghella (15 min.) Rockaby / director, Richard Eyre (14 min.) 4 videodiscs (10 hrs., 48 min.) + 1 guide (39 p) PQ2603.E378 B42 2001 1-4 + guide

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Beckett: Works Of. The Birth of Soviet Cinema. Everett/Edwards Films for the Humanities, (1972) Lecture with selected readings. Examines the golden age of cinema Cassette (40 min.) in the 1920's in Russia by presenting PR 6003 E282 Z747 excerpts from the masterworks of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Dovzhenko. Behind the Scenes With David Parsons. Explains why the 1920's was a productive First Run Features, 1999 (1992) time for cinema in general. David Parsons choreographs 1 videodisc (49 min.) everyday movements into a pattern of PN1993.5.R9 B5 1972 dance, and B.H. Barry demonstrates how fighting and other forms of movement are The Birthday Party. choreographed in film and on the stage. Everett/Edwards 1 Video Cassette (30 min.) Lecture on the play. GV1782.5 .B44 1999 Cassette PR 6066 I53 B57 Benito Cereno: From The Old Glory. Columbia (1965) Black Theatre: The Making of a Original cast recording of the third Movement. play in the trilogy, The Old Glory. California Newsreel (1978) Text (8 p.) Recaptures the birth of a new theatre 2 Discs from the Civil Rights activism of the 1950s, PS 3523 089 04 '60s, and '70s. An encyclopedia on video of the leading figures, institutions and events of . a movement which transformed American Films for the Humanities (198?) theatre. A documentary look at the man and Pt. 1: Pioneers (41 min.) his work. Shows his roots and the theatrical Pt. 2: A Theatre of Our Own (37 )min. and social background of his formative Pt. 3: Black Theatre and Beyond years. Analyzes the development of his (35 min.) vision of the theatre. Video Cassette Video Cassette (55 min.) PN 2270 A35 B583 PT 2603 R397 Z46 Blocking a Scene: Basic Staging with The Best of Second City : Full Cast Actors. Production. Theatre Arts Video Library (1990) L.A. Theatre Works (1996) Explores essential and practical Improvisatory sketches and songs methods to help the novice in blocking first that lampoon many aspects of modern scenes. Provides the viewer with a step-by- American life performed before a live step process which features the elements of audience. good blocking, script analysis, creating an 4 sound cassettes (4 hrs., 44 min.) effective floor plan and collaborating with PS438 .B47 1996 actors. Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) The Birth of Modern Theatre : Chekhov's Brochure In Perspective. PN 2053 B56 Films for the Humanities, [1982?], c1975 Analyzes Chekhov's dramatic techniques as developed in Uncle Vanya. Includes a performance of the third act of the English translation by Constance Garnett. 1 videodisc (47 min.) : PN1861 .B57 1982

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The Blue Men. Butley. Monterey Home Video (1991) Kino on Video, 2003 "Amid the tourists and the white- A gay college teacher in London is left washed houses of a small summer island, a by his boyfriend, finds out his ex-wife is young boy has come to live with his remarrying and that a less esteemed grandmother. Stirred by her daydreams of colleague is having a work published --all in another time and place, we discover this one day. small family's touching, sometimes amusing, 1 videodisc (129 min.) + 1 leaflet efforts to forge an uneasy relationship and PR6057.R33 B82 2003 discover the love in each other in the shadow of an unusual tragedy"—Container. Cabin in the Sky. 1 videocassette (ca. 45 min.) MGM Home Entertainment, c1943 PS3573.I4496 B582 1991 When gambler Little Joe is fatally wounded settling a bet, the forces of good Brecht On Stage. and evil battle for his soul. Films for the Humanities (2002) 1 videocassette (99 min.) Bertolt Brecht wrote plays to M1500.D83 C32 1999 challenge an audience, to make them think and see the possibilities of change -- what Caesar and Cleopatra. he called "dialectical theater." In this Caedmon (1965) documentary contemporaries and scholars Stars Max Adrian, , discuss his work and the methods he used ; Anthony Quayle, Director. to revolutionize drama in the 20th century, Text (24 p.) and its impact on modern theater. 2 Discs (mono) Video Cassette (24 min.) P 5363 C15 C3 PT2603.R397 Z576 2002 Caesar and Cleopatra. The Brig. Everett/Edwards 2940 Mystic Fire Video (1964) Lecture on the play. A film by Jonas Mekas based on The Cassette Living Theatre production by Kenneth H. PR 5363 C15 S73 Brower, directed by Judith Malina; designed by Julian Beck. The film was made in five Camelot. hours. The furious rhythms of The Brig Warner Home Video (1997) convey the inhumanity of military discipline A musical retelling of the rise and fall with the raw force of a battle document. of England's mythical King Arthur. Video Cassette (1hr. 6 min.) Cast: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, PN 1995.9 D6 B74 Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries. Butley. 2 Video Cassettes (3hrs 37 min.) Kino on Video, 2003 M1500.L64 .C34 A gay college teacher in London is left by his boyfriend, finds out his ex-wife is Camera. remarrying and that a less esteemed Janus Films (1975) colleague is having a work published --all in Presents a broad spectrum of one day. photographic styles and techniques. 1 videodisc (129 min.) + 1 leaflet Video Cassette (20 min.) PR6057.R33 B82 2003 PN 1995.9 P7 C3

Carousel. Fox Video (1984) Stars Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, and Cameron Mitchell. Video Cassette (2 hr. 8 min.) M 1500 R62 C37

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Cascando Chaos and Order: Making American Voices International, [1989?] Theater. "An American national premiere of Films for the Humanities and Sciences one of the radio plays of Samuel Beckett (2006) and a documentary about the play and its "The American Repertory Theater [i.e. place in the context of Beckett's work"-- Theatre] is one of the most respected and Guide in container. innovative dramatic institutions in the United 1 sound disc States. Through the prism of the A.R.T., this PR6003.E282 C38 1989 program explores the organizational and creative challenges facing today's theater Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. community and describes the flexibility and MGM (1958) resilience arts groups must have to survive Stars Elizabeth Taylor, , in today's cultural climate"—Container. and Burl Ives. 1 videodisc (68 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr. 48 min.) PN2297.A53 C42 2006 PS3545.I5365 C373 1986 The Chase as Epic. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Coronet Films (1978) Vestron (1964) Video Cassette (33 min.) Stars Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee PN 1995.9 D4 C432 Jones, and . Video Cassette (2 hr.) The Chase in the Evolution of Movies. PS3545.I5365 C372 1984 Coronet (1978) Video Cassette (24 min.) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. PN 1995.9 D4 C43 MGM/UA Home Video (1983) Members of a neurotic Southern Chekhov, Anton: A Writer's Life. family gather to face the impending death of Films for the Humanities (1983) their patriarch, Big Daddy, and battle over Probes the life and works of the the inheritance of his vast estate. Cast: playwright who is second only to Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives Shakespeare in popularity, and shows the Originally released in 1958 as a motion sources of his insight and the techniques picture. through which he expressed them. Videodisc (1hr 48 min.) Video Cassette (1/2", 37 min., b&w) PN1997.85 .C37 2006 (108 min.) PG 3458 A65

The Chairs. The Cherry Orchard. Caedmon (1963) Kino International Corp., [2002] Stars Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Madame Ranevskaya returns to her Cusack; the author is narrator; director, decaying estate in pre-revolutionary Russia Howard Sackler. after an exile in Paris. The estate and its 2 Cassettes beloved cherry orchard are threatened by PQ 2617 06 C5 Ranevskaya's financial problems, and no one seems able to do anything about it. The Chairs. 1 videodisc (137 min.) Everett/Edwards PG3456.V5 C33 2002 Cassette PQ 2617 06 C56

The Changeling. Films for the Humanities (1997) Stars , Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Grant, and Peter Darling. Video Cassette (1 hr. 32 min.) PR 2714 C52

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The Cherry Orchard. Clouds. Britannica (1968) Everett/Edwards Analyzes Chekhov’s use of The author gives historical characterization and plot in the play. background and interpretation of Examines the play’s dramatic devices and the play about Socrates. Chekhov’s attitudes towards life and political Cassette (28 min.) currents of the time. PA 3875 C6 C38 Video Cassette (20 min.) PG 3455 V53 C33 The Coach with the Six Insides. Creative Arts Television, (2003) The Cherry Orchard. This program contains an excerpt of Everett/Edwards Jean Erdman's dance-drama based on Lecture/interpretation of the play. 's "Finnegan's Wake." It is a Cassette (32 min.) blend of mime, dancing, acting, and music. PG 3455 V5 S73 Erdman also talks about the work. 1 videocassette (26 min.) Choephori (The Libation Bearers). GV1782.62.C63 C63 2003 Films for the Humanities (1983) Video Cassette (1 hr. 10 min.) Cocteau: Works of. PA 3827 A7 H37 Everett/Edwards Lecture on the French poet, Choephori. playwright, screenwriter, novelist, critic, Everett/Edwards artist, choreographer. Cites selected plays Cassette (31 min.) and films. PA 3825 C5 C38 Cassette (32 min.) PQ 2605 015 Z83 Classical and Modern Tragedy: From Aeschylus to Shakespeare and Beyond. Comeback Vaudeville, or, Don't Call Us, Everett/Edwards We'll Call You. Lecture. Amargosa Opera House, (1996) Cassette Musical based on the career of PN 1892 P36 ballerina Marta Becket in vaudeville. 1 videocassette (47 min.) Classical Comedy. M1500.B413 C64 1996 Films for the Humanities (1988) The first part of this film, devoted to a Combat for the Stage and Screen. substantial section of Aristophanes' Women University of Washington (1985) in Power, shows what happens when David Boushey demonstrates stage women, fed up with the stupidity and fighting, explains his notation system for incompetence of men, organize to take over choreographing fights, and emphasizes the government. safety factors. The second part introduces Roman Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) comedy with the Vainglorious soldier and PN 2071 F5 B68 the Clever Servant in Miles Gloriosus. The two plays demonstrate the different The Comedy of Manners: The concepts of funny and the different functions Misanthrope. of comedy in democratic Greece and Films for the Humanities (1988) autocratic Rome. Presents an abridged performance of Video Cassette (58 min.) Moliere's comedy, The Misanthrope. PA 3161 C53 Explains the comedy of manners as an art form. Video Cassette (52 min.) PQ 1837 A486

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Commedia Dell'arte. [Costumes] History of Costume. IASTA (196?) Slide Presentations (1975) Discusses the characters in Vol. 1: 3100 B.C. - 1100 AD. Egypt, commedia dell'arte, shows people doing Greece, Etruscan & Roman, Early Christian mime, and has excerpts from a commedia & Byzantine, Migrations & Romanesque. dell'arte play in English. Vol. 2: 1100 - 1510. Early Gothic, Video Cassette (14 min.) Middle Gothic, French Burgundian, Early PQ 4155 C62 Renaissance in Italy, High Italian Renaissance. Company. Vol. 3: 1500 - 1615. Reformation, RCA Victor Video (1992) Elizabethan. Filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker's Vol. 4: 1615 - 1785. Cavalier, Reign chronicle of the18 1/2 hour recording of Louis XIV, Early Georgian, Late Georgian. session of the musical comedy, Company. Vol. 5: 1785- 1930. Directoire & First Videocassette (53 min.) Empire, Romantic, Crinoline, Bustle, Turn of M 1504 S65 C64 the Century. 1188 Slides The Connection. Indexes Mystic Fire Video (1961) GT 513 B87 vol. 1-3 We see the squalid pad of a dope peddler named Leach. He and a handful of [Costumes] Suiting Everyone. clients drift about the room. They are Smithsonian Institution (1979) waiting for the "connection", Cowboy. Four Presents the change from the jazz musicians among the addicts start to garments of the 18th Century which were play. Their sessions provide a brilliant made for a specific individual to today's counterpoint to the happening on stage. mass produced clothing intended to fit Based on the Living Theatre Production by everyone. Illustrates the exhibition, "Suiting Jack Gelber. Everyone", in the National Museum of Video Cassette (105 min.) History and Technology. PS 3513 E42 C612 80 Slides Booklet Costume and Stage Design at the Theatre GT 503 S94 National Populaire. Kaidib Films Int. (1970) [Costumes] 2000 Years of English Shows stage sets and costumes Costumes. designed by Jacques Le Marquet and others KaiDib Films (1976) for production at the Theatre National Examples of clothing worn in England Populaire in Paris. from the Celts & Romans 43 A.D. to the 98 Slides Victorians in 1890. Study Guide 185 Slides PN 2636 P3 T5 Guide (124 p.) GT 730 A15 Costumes from the Eighteenth Century. Kaidib Films International. The Country Wife. 100 Slides Insight Media Booklet Excerpts. GT 585 C67 Video Cassette PR 3774 C682 S22

The Crucible. Spoken Arts (1956) speaking and reading from the Crucible and Death of a Salesman. Disc PS 3525 I5156 C7

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The Crucible. Cyrano de Bergerac. Caedmon (1972) Orion (1991) Performed by Repertory Theater of In French with English subtitles. Lincoln Center. Stars Gerard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, 4 Discs (stereo) Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, and Roland PS 3525 I5156 C72 Bertin. Video Cassette (2hr. 18 min.) The Crucible. PQ 2635 O7 C922 Hen’s Tooth Video (1957) This adaptation depicts the Salem Dance of Death. witch hunts as an allegory of the McCarthy Everett/Edwards era. Stars Yves Montand and Simone The lecturer gives his interpretation in Signoret. In French with subtitles. terms of realism, tragedy, comedy, misery, Video Cassette (1 hr. 48 min.) pleasure. PS 3525 I5156 C722 Cassette (33 min.) PT 9812 D62 S73 The Crucible. Twentieth Century Fox (1996) David Copperfield. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Warner Home Video (2006) Ryder, , Joan Allen, Bruce A young boy's idyllic life with his Davison. widowed mother ends when she weds a Video Cassette (2 hr.) cruel man who drives her to an early grave. PS 3525 I5156 C782 When the boy is forced to live in misery and poverty, he finally runs away from the Curtain Call. stepfather who despises him and throws New Day Films (2006) himself upon the mercy of an eccentric aunt. "The unforgettable story of eight 1 videodisc (ca. 131 min.) remarkable residents of the Actors Fund PR4558 .A3 2006 Retirement Home. No ordinary nursing home, these residents are still full of vitality Death of a Salesman. as they recall tales of Broadway's golden Caedmon (1966) age, and what they have done with their Stars Lee J. Cobb, Mildred Dunnock; lives"—Container. Ulu Grosbard, Director.Introduction by Miller. 1 videodisc (38 min.) Text (34 p.) PN2285 .C87 2006 3 Discs (stereo) PS 3525 I5156 D422 Cyrano de Bergerac. MGM Home Entertainment, 2004 Death of a Salesman. Cyrano is a brilliant but hideously ugly Guidance Associates (1986) poet, trying to get his true love, Roxanne. Stars , Charles 1 videodisc (138 min.) Durning, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, and PQ2635.O7 C923 2004 . Video Cassette (2 hr. 15 min.) Cyrano de Bergerac. PS 3525 I5156 D412 Hollywood Select Video (199?) Cast: Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, Death of a Salesman. William Prince, Morris Carnovsky. Spoken Arts (1956) Video Cassette (1 hr. 56 min.) Arthur Miller speaking and reading PQ 2635 O7 C923 from the Crucible. Disc PS 3525 I5156 C7

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Death of a Salesman. Dialect monologues. Everett/Edwards (1972) Dramaline Publications (1990 ) Lecture. Through contemporary monologues Cassette (34 min.) by Roger Karshner and instructional text by PS 3525 I5156 D435 David Alan Stern, teaches actors how to speak thirteen different dialects. [Death of a Salesman] Private 1 sound cassette : analog Conversations on the Set of. + 1 guide (30 p.) Karl Lorimar Video (1986) PE1701 .A23 1990 Takes you behind the scenes. Arthur Miller, Dustin Hoffman, and director Volker The Directing Process. Schloendorff wrestle with the challenge of DVC (1990) their work. Segments on the history of directing, Video Cassette (1 hr. 22 min.) play selection, text analysis, design and PS 3525 I5156 D4122 collaboration, audition process, staging and production organization. The Design of Modern Theatre. Video Cassette (1 hr. 50 min.) Films for the Humanities (1992) Guide (10 p.) Explores Appia's innovations in PN 2053 D57 theater: replacing the flat painted scenery and declamatory style of the 19th century Director. with plastic environments for three- Janus Films (1979) dimensional actors and actresses, using Selections from the careers of Alfred mobile lighting and counterpointing visuals Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, Akira with music. Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman. Video Cassette (50 min.) Video Cassette (23 min.) PN2808.A6 D47 1992 PN 1995.9 P7 D4

Designs of Josef Svoboda. Doctor Faustus. Kaidib Films Int. (1973) RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video Shows designs and stage sets by (1987) Josef Svoboda in Europe, U.S., and Canada Stars & Elizabeth from 1944-1973. Taylor. Study Guide Video Cassette (1 hr. 33 min.) 190 Slides (col. & B&W) PN 1997.85 D63 PN 2096 S9 D4 A Doll's House. . Prism Entertainment (1973) Everett/Edwards Stars Jane Fonda, Edward Fox, Lecture on the play. Trevor Howard, Delphine Seyring, Cassette and . PS 3529 N5 D47 Video Cassette (1 hr. 39 min.) PT 8861 D6 The Devil's Disciple. BBC Video 2006 A Doll's House. In New Hampshire in 1777, Dick MGM/UA (1981) Dudgeon's father dies. Called back home to Stars , Christopher the unhappy family he revolted against Plummer, and . years ago, Dick finds he's been named heir, Video Cassette (1 hr. 29 min.) much to the horror of his religious mother. PT 8861 A362 To complicate matters, the British have arrived. 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) PR5363 .D45 2006

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A Doll's House. Edited Image. MGM Home Entertainment, [2003] Coronet Films & Video (1975) Nora is sheltered first by her father Shows how the concepts of time, and then by her husband. All her life, she action and space can be manipulated has been protected like a fragile possession through film editing techniques. Excerpts ... like a doll in a doll's house. After she from Potemkin, Baraband, Olympia, Le marries, Nora becomes frustrated, realizes Bonheur, Evergreen and Citizen Kane. that under the dominance of her husband Video Cassette (20 min., B&W) she will never have an identity of her own, PN 1995 A7 E4 and leaves to find a new life for herself. 1 videodisc (95 min.) Edith Head. PT8861 .A362 2003 New Video (2001) Discusses the life of the Hollywood The Drama of Ancient Greece: From costume designer Edith Head. Ritual to Theater. Video Cassette (50 min.) Films for the Humanities & Sciences TT505.H4 E35 2001 (2005) "Traces Greek theater from ancient 's A Delicate Balance. harvest rites to the golden age of Aeschylus, Kino on Video, 2003 Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. Agnes, as domineering and sarcastic Key scenes from 'Antigone', 'Oedipus as her husband Tobias is equivocating and Tyrranus', 'Medea', and 'Lysistrata' show guarded, finds her empty nest invaded by how these works remain relevant by her alcoholic sister, their divorced daughter, exploring the timeless themes of honor, and friends who are terrified of being alone class, gender, sexuality, and politics. for unknown reasons. Essential concepts such as catharsis, 1 videodisc (132 min.) + 1 leaflet hamartia, and the use of masks and a PS3551.L25 D45 2003 chorus are discussed"—Container. 1 videodisc (57 min.) Electra. PA3201 .D73 2005 Everett/Edwards Lecture/interpretation. Drama: History and Structure. Cassette Creative Visuals (1975) PA 4413 E5 C38 23 Transparencies Manual (8 p.) Embers. PN 1655 P66 Box 1-2 Voices International, [1988?] "An American national premiere of Duck Variations. one of the radio plays of Samuel Beckett State Education Dept. (1977) and a documentary about the play and its Richard Barr interviews David Mamet. place in the context of Beckett's work"-- Excerpts from his play, Duck Variations, are Guide in container. performed at a duck pond on Long Island. 1 sound disc Video Cassette (29 min.) PR6003.E282 E42 1988 PS 3563 A4345 Z68 The Emerging Chaplin. Dutchman. Coronet Film (198?) California Newsreel (1967) Video Cassette (29 min.) Baraka's original one act play was PN 2287 C5 E44 expanded to 55 minutes for this production. Features Al Freeman Jr. and Shirley Knight. The Emperor Jones. Video Cassette (55 min.) Caedmon (1970) PS 3519 O4545 D82 Includes discussions that took place during rehearsals. Stars ; director, Theodore Mann. 2 Cassettes PS 3529 N5 E5

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Emperor Jones. Enrico IV = Henry IV. Everett/Edwards Facets Multimedia (2003) Lecture on the play. After a modern aristocrat falls off his Cassette horse, he believes that he is Henry IV, PS 3529 N5 E56 Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. For years, everyone around him adapts to this Emperor Jones and Paul Robeson: fantasy, dressing and acting accordingly. Tribute to an Artist. Then one day, some friends try to cure Home Vision Cinema (1933) "Henry." Stars Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges. 1 videodisc (95 min.) Directed by Dudley Murphy. (1 hr. 12 min.) PQ4835.I7 E52 2003 Tribute to an Artist (29 min.) Video Cassette Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros. PS 3529 N5 E562 Kino on Video (2003) Rhinoceros tells the story of a French Endgame. town plagued by rhinoceroses. These are Roland Films on Art (1989) not ordinary rhinoceroses, but people who Cast: Norman Beaton, , have been victims of "rhinoceritis." Or is it Charles Drake, Kate Binchy. something else entirely? Video Cassette (1 hr. 32 min.) 1 videodisc (104 min.) PQ 2603 E378 F533 PQ2617.O6 R482 2003

(Arthur Miller's Adaptation of) An Enemy Eumenides (The Furies). of the People. Films for the Humanities (1983) Insight Media (2000) Video Cassette (1 hr. 10 min.) In Riverton, Maine, circa 1893, Dr. PA 3827 A7 H37 Thomas Stockman wants to disclose that the town's moneymaking health spa Eumenides. "Clearwater Springs" has been fouled by Everett/Edwards pollution from a tannery. But his proposal to Lecture on the play. go public is opposed by his brother Peter, Cassette the town mayor, who prompts a wave of PA 3825 E7 C38 public outrage against Dr. Stockman and his family. The Eunuch. Video Cassette (1 hr. 52 min.) Classroom Media (1999) PT8862.A37 .M52 2000 Performance of a translation of Terence's play, The eunuch. A story of two The English Theater. rival lovers of the courtesan Thais, and a University Arts Resources (1988) young man who falls in love with a slave girl Documents the personalities, and impersonates a eunuch. performance styles, theatre architecture, 1 videodisc (70 min.) and stage designs of the English stage from PA6756.E8 B37 1999 the beginnings to the present. Includes facade drawings, sections and plans of European Theaters in Action. theatres, costume and set designs, staging Kaidib Films Int. (1970) notes and other images. Photographs of stage productions Slides introduce outstanding classical and modern Guide theaters in Europe. PN 2595 E54 vol. 1-3 Study Guide 260 Slides PN 2570 E8

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Everyman. Galileo. Insight Media (1991) Kino on Video, 2003 A live performance. This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th Video Cassette (50 min.) century Italian who laid the foundations of PR 1261 E8 I57 modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and Follies In Concert. discovered the moons of Jupiter. He EMK Productions (1984) supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth Music by Stephen Sondheim revolved around the Sun. This brought him Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) into conflict with the Catholic Church. By M 1500 S66 F653 threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a Four Greek Comedies tribunal, and sentenced him to house arrest. Audio Book Contractors, 2009 However, Galileo's trials and theories These four plays, translated into blank inspired others like Newton and Kepler to verse by C.A. Wheelwright, exemplify the prove that the Earth was not the center of wide range of this playwright's imagination. the Universe. From war and peace to politics and society 1 videodisc (138 min.) + 1 leaflet to the relationships between men and PT2603.R397 G35 2003 women, no topic is off-limits. 8 sound discs (ca. 7 hrs., 10 min.) Gender & Performance: A Doll's House. PA3877 .A2 2009 Part 1 & 2. Insight Media (1995) Franco Zeffirelli's Production of William Focusing on the final scene of Ibsen's Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. A doll's house, which is presented by the Paramount Pictures, (2000) same actors and production team in three Presents the Franco Zefferelli production different sets and costumes, this program of Shakespeare's tragedy about two examines how the gender issues raised by teenagers who fall in love, encounter the play can be interpreted in different ways. opposition from their families, and take their 1 videodisc (179 min.) lives. PT8861 .G46 1995 1 videodisc (138 min.) PR2831 .A23 2000 Genet: Works of. Everett/Edwards Frogs. Lecture on the French poet, novelist, Everett/Edwards playwright. Gives some biographical Lecturer gives historical background, information and lectures on selected novels setting, and interpretation of the play. and plays. Cassette Cassette (38 min.) PA 3875 F7 C38 PQ 2613 E53 Z747

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to George Orwell. the Forum. Films for the Humanities (1997) MGM/UA Home Video (1966) Traces Orwell's career and discusses Stars Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack his criticism of British society. Gilford, Buster Keaton. Video Cassette (50 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr. 40 min.) PR 6029 R8 Z639 M 1500 S66 F85 German Theatre: Brecht and Schiller. Galileo. Fordham University Press (1982) Everett/Edwards Scenes from The good woman of Lecture/interpretation with some Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht and Love and biography. intrigue by Friedrich Schiller are used to Cassette (36 min.) demonstrate the styles of the dramatists. PT 2603 R397 L453 Video Cassette (16 min.) PT626 .G47 1982

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Ghost Sonata. . Everett/Edwards MCA Home Video (1988) Lecturer analyzes and interprets. A strong willed woman attempts to Cassette (32 min.) impose her shattered dreams into the life PT 9812 S62 S73 and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter. Ghosts. 1 videocassette (134 min.) Everett/Edwards PN1997.85 .G545 1988 Lecturer analyzes and interprets. Cassette The Glass Menagerie. PT 8865 S73 Everett/Edwards Lecture on the play. The Gift of Love. Cassette Monterey Home Video (1992) PS 3545 I5365 G52 In in the early 1900's, a wealthy young orphan is resigned to (Tennessee Williams') The Glass marrying a "socially acceptable" man when Menagerie. she meets and falls in love with a Swiss Image Entertainment, [2002] immigrant. She struggles to make her A strong willed woman attempts to choice, weighing her relatives' expectations impose her shattered dreams into the life against what she feels in her heart. and personality of her shy, reclusive 1 videocassette (96 min) daughter. PS2649.P5 G532 1992 1 videodisc (105 min.) PS3545.I5365 G532 2002 Ginger Friedman's How to Audition Class. God Sees the Truth--But Waits . Tape 1: Cold Readings Monterey Home Video (1999) Tape 2: Prepared Monologues Story of the fated meeting of two men 2 Video Cassettes (1 hr. 30 min. in prison, one a criminal, the other clinging each) to renewed hope. PN 2071 A92 F73 pt. 1-2 1 videocassette (22 min) PG3366 .B64132 1999 Giraudoux: Works of. Everett/Edwards Goethe, Faust. Lecture on the French prose writer Insight Media (1995) and playwright best known for his sparkling Discusses the play. comedies. Gives biographical information Video Cassette (1 hr.) with description of setting and plots of PT 1925 G63 selected plays. Cassette (32 min.) Greece & Rome. PQ 2613 I74 Z83 Films for the Humanities & Sciences [distributor] (2005) The Glass Menagerie. "Professor Richard Beacham of MCA Home Video (1988) King's College London guides viewers Cast: Joanne Woodward, John through the Theatre of Epidaurus and the Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton. Lycurgian, Hellenistic, and Roman 2 Videodiscs (2 hr. 14 min.) manifestations of the Theatre of Dionysus"-- PS 3545 I5365 G532 Container. Also featured are the odea of Pericles and Agrippa and Rome's Theatre of Pompey. 1 videodisc (22 min.) PA3201 .G73 2005

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Greek Fire: Tragedy & Architecture. Greek Tragedy. Mystic Fire (1990) Teaching Company (2000) The Greeks left a legacy which Twenty-four lectures that introduce challenges our modern attitudes toward the student to Greek tragedy by setting the calamity and disaster. The Greek tragedy's plays in their cultural and historical attempts to explain, to give significance, and background and discussing 25 of the 32 to involve its audience is quite different from surviving tragedies. See online catalog for the images which come into our living rooms table of contents. through the television. 12 Cassettes Video Cassette (52 min.) 2 Guides PA 3131 T73 PA3133 .V35 2000

Greek Legacy: Classical Origins of the The Greeks: Heroes and Men. Modern World. Films for the Humanities (1988) The Teaching Company (1998) Concentrates on the work of Homer Introduces the continuing influence of and Aeschylus. Viewers are taken on a tour the classical Greek achievement on of Athens, Mycenae, Olympia, Delphi, and contemporary life. See online catalog for the great theater at Epidauros. detailed table of contents. Video Cassette (52 min.) 6 Cassettes PA 3052 H47 Guide DF77 .G777 1998 [Green Pastures] Voices Off-Stage. Center for Cassette Studies Greek Legacy: Classical Origins of the Marc Connelly discusses his Modern World. celebrated work, Green Pastures. Teaching Company (1998) Cassette Discusses the continuing influence of PS 3505 O4814 G72 the classical Greek achievement on contemporary life. Happy birthday Oscar Wilde. Tape 1: Kultur, [c2005] 1. “Depth Psychology” From the October 2004 marked the 150th Dance to the Drama anniversary of Ireland's most famous literary 2. The Aesthetics of Harmony genius, Oscar Wilde. During his lifetime, he 3. The Invention of Scholarship was adored for the wit and wisdom of his 4. Science and the Nature of Things plays, poetry and essays by a society who Tape 2: would later sentence and imprison him. In 5. The Hippocratics celebration of his life and works, this video 6. The Rule of Law presents over 150 of his best quotes, 7. Statecraft delivered by 150 of today's leading artists of 8. Ancient Greek Religion stage, screen and music. Tape 3: 1 videodisc (110 min.) 9. Character and Personality PR5823 .H37 2005 10. The Moral Point of View 11. The City and the Civic Life Heartbreak House. 12. Perfectionism and the Greek Ideal Everett/Edwards 3 Videocassettes (379 min.) Lecture on the play. Guide (47 p.) Cassette DF77 G7772 1998 PR 5363 H42 S73

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Heartbreak house How to Break Into Motion Pictures, BBC Video 2006 Television, Commercials, and Modeling. On his Sussex estate Captain Anthony Productions (1985) Shotover, an eccentric poet, retired seafarer Gives you first-hand advice from and inventor, is reluctantly hosting a producers, casting directors, agents, actors, weekend house party for his two daughters and models. Nina Blanchard, one of the and their bohemian friends. industry's most powerful agents, shares her 1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) knowledge and expertise. Covers PR5363 .H45 2006 education, workshops, emotional requirements, auditions, agents, voiceovers, Hedda Gabler. commercials, soap operas, and other Films for the Humanities (1994) aspects of show business. Stars Diana Rigg, Denis Lill, and 2 Video Cassettes (2 1/2 hr.) Philip Bond. PN 1995.9 P75 H69 Video Cassette (1 hr. 18 min.) PT 8868 A2 C85 The Human Voice: A Play. Caedmon (1960) Hedda Gabler. Stars . Translation of Films for the Humanities (198?) La Voix Humaine. Focuses on the role of women in a Disc male dominated society. This film, which PQ 2605 015 V7 features Darlene Johnson as Hedda, is careful to present the protagonist, not . merely as a woman troubled by their Caedmon (1973) womanhood, but as the complex and Stars Lee Marvin, Fredric March, ambiguous character Ibsen depicted. Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Bradford Dillman. Video Cassette (45 min.) 4 Cassettes (3-3/4 hr.) PT 8868 I3712 PS 3529 N5 I2

Hedda Gabler. The Iceman Cometh. Everett/Edwards Everett/Edwards Lecture on the play. Lecture on the play. Cassette (34 min.) Cassette PT 8868 S73 PS 3529 N5 I23

Hellman: Works of Lillian. (Eugene O'Neill's) The Iceman Cometh. Everett/Edwards Kino on Video, 2003 Lecture on works with biography of In the faded, Vermeer-like light of playwright. Harry Hope's 1912 New York skid row bar, a Cassette ragtag group of fallen men await the annual PS 3515 E343 Z75 arrival of their friend Hickey. But now Hickey is sober, and he wants his drunken friends Hippolytus [Euripides]. to follow the same path. Everett/Edwards 2 videodiscs (239 min.) + 1 leaflet Lecturer summarizes and interprets. PS3529.N5 I32 2003 Cassette PA 3973 H7 C38

(Harold Pinter's) The Homecoming. Kino on Video, 2003 Deals with an all-bachelor family in North London, ruled by their abusive father, and disrupted by the return of the eldest son and his wife from America 1 videodisc (114 min.) + 1 leaflet PR6066.I53 H64 2003

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I, Claudius. Introduction to Creative Drama and Films for the Humanities (1991) Improvisation. Touch of Murder Design Video Communications, (1990) Family Affairs Defines creative drama and the Waiting in the Wings creative process with improvisational What Shall We Do About exercises designed to assist in the teaching Claudius? of acting. Poison is Queen Video Cassette (110 min) Some Justice 1 teacher's guide (11 p.) Queen of Heaven PN2071.I5 I57 1990 Reign of Terror Zeus, by Jove Ionesco: Works of. Hail Who? Everett/Edwards Fool's Luck Lecture on the style of French A God in Colchester playwright. Old King Log Cassette (29 min.) 7 Video Cassettes (1 hr. per part) PQ 2617 06 Z747 PR 6013 R35 I353 tapes 1-7 Iphigenia. I'm On a Mission From Buddha. Films for the Humanities (198?) Crosscurrent Media (1991) Iphigenia forms the basis for Nishikawa transforms into six different understanding the events and characters, including a stand-up comic, a people involved in the Trojan War and in the Japanese American WWII hero and a Iliad. With Irene Papas, Tatiana corporate samurai. He delivers monologues Papamoskou, and Costa Kazakos. on the dilemmas of being a Japanese Video Cassette (2 hr.30 min.) American actor and being Asian American. PA 3973 I7 I6 Video Cassette (1 hr.) E 184 O6 I42 Italy: Evolution of the Theatre to Pirandello. The Importance of Being Earnest. Fordham University Press, (198-) Video Yesteryear (1952) Traces the evolution of the physical Cast: Michael Redgrave, Margaret theatre from ancient Greece to the Italian Rutherford, and Edith Evans. Renaissance. Includes excerpts from Video Cassette (1 hr. 35 min.) Pirandello's play Enrico IV. PN 1995.9 C55 I46 1 Video Cassette (20 min.) PN2671 .I73 1980z In Celebration. Kino on Video, 2003 Jeanette Winterson & Will Power Three sons return to the primitive Films for the Humanities & Sciences Yorkshire mining town of their birth to (2006) celebrate their parents' fortieth wedding Jeanette Winterson talks about anniversary. During the celebration, their Weight, her new version of the story of Atlas submerged hatreds and fears emerge from and Hercules as well as the power of art to behind their model blue-collar family façade. build a fulfilling inner life. Writer, actor, 1 videodisc (130 min.) + 1 leaflet rapper Will Power talks about the challenges PR6069.T65 I5 2003 of "flipping" an ancient Greek drama, Seven Against Thebes, into a hip hop performance Inherit the Wind. in the adaptation, The Seven. MGM Home Entertainment (1999) 1 videodisc (57 min.) Based on the real-life Scopes trial in PR6073.I558 J43 2006 which a teacher was jailed in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Video Cassette (1 hr. 43) PS 3523 A934 I62

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Jerzy Grotowski. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Creative Arts Television Archive, (1997) Nickleby. Margaret Croyden talks with Jerzy Primetime Television Ltd. (1982) Grotowski about experimental theater. The complete performance of the Illustrated by photographs by Max Waldman. Royal Shakespeare Company. 1 videocassette (55 min.) 4 Video Cassettes (8 hr.) PN219.E86 J47 1997 PR 6055 D44 L52

John Guare. L'Ecole des Femmes. Insight Media (1982) Films for the Humanities, c1988 Discussion of John Guare's work. A plot of young lovers, a manipulative Excerpts from House of Blue Leaves are older man, innocent trust misplaced, and the featured. discovery of a wealthy father. Video Cassette (30 min.) 2 videocassettes (131 min.) PS 3557 U2 Z76 PQ1832.E37 S63 pt.1 – 2

John Osborne's Luther. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Kino on Video, 2003 Nickleby. The story of Martin Luther and his A&E Home Video (1994) eventual condemnation of the Catholic Chronicles the experiences of a Church and incitement of the Protestant young man in 19th century England. reformation. 9 videocassettes (ca. 9 hr.) 1 videodisc (111 min.) + 1 leaflet PR6055.D44 L52 1994 pt.1 - 9 PR6065.S18 L87 2003 Life and Death in Britain's Ancient Juno and the Paycock. Theaters. Caedmon (1973) New Video Group (1996) Stars Siobhan McKenna, Cyril Delves into the magical world of the Cusack, Maire, Kean, Seamus Elizabethan stage, a time when actors were Kavanagh. Introduction by the author. worshipped and playwrights immortalized. 2 Discs (stereo) With a dozen grand theaters, including PR 6029 C33 J8 Shakespeare's Globe, the theater-mad masses could expect almost anything: Killing of Abel. legends of knights, Biblical ceremonies, and University of Toronto tales of nobility struck down from their high Based on the Wakefield Master's horse. version of the story of Cain and Abel. Video Cassette (47 min.) Performed by the Poculi Ludique Societas in PN2589 .L53 1996 Middle English dialect. Video Cassette (40 min.) Literary Visions. PR 644 W3 K54 Annenberg CPB Collection (1992) 18. The Elements of Drama . 19. Character & Actors in Drama WGBH Boston 20. Plot & Conflict in Drama Film version of the Royal National 21. Setting & Staging in Drama Theatre production of King Lear, William 22. The Language of Drama Shakespeare's play about a foolish king who 23. Myth & Symbolism in Drama divides his realm between two ungrateful 24. Theme in Drama daughters. 7 Video Cassettes (30 min. per part) 2 Video Cassettes (2 hrs 30 min) PN 59 L57 1992 vol. 18-24 PR2819 .A23 1998

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The Living Theater. Long Day's Journey Into Night. Creative Arts Television, (2003) Everett/Edwards The Living Theater Company Lecture on the play. performs two segments from their Cassette "Mysteries and smaller pieces": "The brig PS 3529 N5 L64 dollar" and "The plague." The excerpts are introduced by founder-directors Julian Beck . and Judith Malina, who discuss the goals of Warner Home Video (1980) the work and the ideas of their group with Stars Malcolm McDowell; director arts critic Jack Kroll."Container." Lindsay Anderson. 1 videocassette (27 min.) Video Cassette 12", 1hr. 41 min.) PN2297.L5 L58 2003 PR 6029 S39 L6

Long Day's Journey Into Night. [Lorca] The Spirit of Lorca. BFS Video, [2003] Films for the Humanities (2000) Depicts a day in the life of a family "In a brief life filled with prodigious deteriorating from alcoholism, drug artistic achievements, Federico García addiction, and imminent death. Aging actor Lorca's greatest legacy may well be his James Tyrone has abandoned all hope of complex and compelling personality. Filmed being a great performer and has settled for on location in Spain, this vintage program being a hack. His bitter wife, Mary, has profiles the immortalized poet/dramatist, slipped into morphine addiction, while his capturing the potent essence of Spanish eldest son, Jamie, is a drunk. Jamie is culture in the process. Extracts from his envious of the writing talent of his sickly poems, plays, and letters demonstrate his younger brother, Edmund. These four 'duende' - burning passion - for the arts, haunted lives are about to clash. while the details of his life and violent death, 2 videodiscs (ca. 160 min.) as told by his biographer Ian Gibson, PS3529.N5 L662 2003 contemporaries Rafael Alberti and Luis Rosales, and others, present a thoughtful Long Day's Journey Into Night. perspective on Spain's revered literary Republic Pictures Home Video (1962) icon."--Container Stars Katherine Hepburn, Sir Ralph 1 Video Cassette (76 min.): Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., and Dean PQ6613.A763 Stockwell. 2 Video Cassettes (3 hr.) Lorenzaccio. PS 3529 N5 L652 Hachette (1976) Play in 5 acts in French. Long Day's Journey Into Night. 3 Discs Film for the Humanities (198?) Text O'Neill's method of building a PQ 2369 L62 towering structure out of a simple story, without much action and in ordinary language is demonstrated. Stars Katherine Hepburn, , Jason Robards, Joe & Dean Stockwell in large sections of this major work. Video Cassette (47 min.) PS 3529 N5 L6

Long Day's Journey Into Night. Everett/Edwards Lecture on the play. Cassette PS 3529 N5 L66

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Lost in the Stars. Major Barbara. Kino on Video, 2003 Public Media Home Vision (1941) Stephen Kumalo, a black South Stars Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, African minister, searches the unfamiliar , Deborah Kerr, and Sybil back alleys and shanty towns of Thorndike. Johannesburg for his son, Absalom. But Video Cassette (1/2, 2 hr. 11 min.) Kumalo's unwavering faith is put to the test PR 5363 M222 when he finds Absalom in jail facing a capital murder charge. Courage, dignity, and The Making of a Monologue. sacrifice fall prey to the whirlwind of racist Caddell & Conwell Foundation for the hypocrisy and hollow justice in Absalom's Arts (1995) trial. Absalom's reunion and reconciliation Focuses on the world premiere of with this father, his jailhouse marriage to his 's one-man performance of pregnant sweetheart, and his heroic Hamlet and discusses how he created the determination to tell the truth set the stage performance. Includes rehearsal and for a tragic climax. performance footage and interviews with 1 videodisc (97 min.) + 1 leaflet Robert Wilson and his principal artisitic PR9369.3.P37 L67 2003 collaborators. 1 videocassette (63 min.) Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino. PR2878.H3 M34 1995 Films for the Humanities (1992) Valdez describes how he became a Le Malade Imaginaire. playwright and director and explains how his Films for the Humanities (1989) plays retrace the experiences of Chicano 2 Video Cassettes (2 hr. 6 min.) families. PQ 1835 A37 F54 pt. 1-2 Video Cassette (26 min.) PN 2270 M48 B48 La Mama: A Theatrical Tapestry. New York : A. Saewitz, (1989) Lysistrata. Documentary on the pioneering La New York Film Annex (1987) Mama Experimental Theatre Club in New Cast: Jenny Karezi and Costas York City. Contains interviews with founder Kazakos. Ellen Stewart, actors, playwrights, directors, Video Cassette (, 1 hr. 37 min.) and others, as well as excerpts from some PA 3877 L82 of La Mama's productions. 1 videocassette (52 min.) Lysistrata. PN2277.N52 L3 1989 Everett/Edwards (1975) Lecturer gives historical background Man and Superman. for setting and analysis of play. BBC Audiobooks America, p1996 Cassette (25 min.) A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization. PA 3877 L8 C37 4 sound discs (256 min.) PR5363 .M34 1996 The Magic Touch. Ciné Fête, 2005 Man and Superman. A documentary on Dominique Everett/Edwards Lemieux, costume designer for Cirque du Lecture on the play. Soleil and Celine Dion. Cassette 1 videodisc (52 min.) PR 5363 M3 S73 TT505.L46 M34 2005

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The Man in the Glass Booth. The Master Builder, Kino on Video, 2003 Kultur, [2003] Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Special features include: Previews of Goldman (Schell) rules a financial empire other Archive plays from his Manhattan penthouse. He is given Translated by Cast: E.G. to passionate and capricious ravings on a Marshall, Lois Smith, Phyllis Love, Fred variety of subjects. His growing paranoia, Stewart, Victor Kilian, James Patterson, dismissed by those close to him, is Joanna Roos confirmed when he is kidnapped by Israeli Originally broadcast on Mar. 21, 1960. agents and brought to trial in Israel for 1 videodisc (103 min.) crimes against humanity. Is he Arthur PT8859.A33 S85 2003 Goldman or is he Adolph Dorf, former SS colonel who headed a Nazi concentration Medea. camp? As the trial progresses, the question Vanguard Cinema (2002) becomes more confusing. Tale of Jason and his quest for the 1 videodisc (117 min.) + 1 leaflet Golden Fleece. Based on the Greek classic PR6069.H39 M36 2003 play by Euripides. This is opera diva Maria Callas's only film role. The Many Roles of . 1 videodisc (110 min.) Coronet (1978) PA3976.7 .M43 2002 Video Cassette (1/2, 28 min.) PN 2598 G8 M35 Medea. Films for the Humanities (1982) Marat/Sade. The Kennedy Center production of MGM Home Entertainment, [2001] Euripides great classic with in The infamous Marquis de Sade, the title role and Judith Anderson as the confined to an asylum, directs the other nurse. English text is by Robinson Jeffers. inmates in a re-enactment of the bloody Video Cassette (1 1/2 hr.) assassination of French revolutionary Jean- PA 3975 M4 J4 Paul Marat. 1 videodisc (120) min.) Medea. PT2685.E5 V432 2001 New York Drama Co. (1986) In ancient Greek with English Marat Sade. subtitles. WBF (1967) Video Cassette (1 hr. 40 min.) Royal Shakespeare Co. presents PN 1997.85 M44 Peter Brook's motion picture version of the original Broadway stage production. Medea. Video Cassette (1 hr. 55 min.) Caedmon (1964) PT 2685 E5 V432 Adapted from the English translation by Rex Warner. Stars Judith Anderson and Maria Aitken on Acting in High Comedy. Anthony Quayle. Theatre Book Publishers (1990) Cassette In a question and answer format; with PA 3975 M4 C2 examples from Coward, Wilde, Sheridan, and Congreve; Aitken shows how to add Medea. spark to comedy readings. Caedmon (1964) Video Cassette (1 hr.) Adapted from the English translation PN2071.C57 M37 1990 by Rex Warner. Stars Judith Anderson and Anthony Quayle. 2 Discs Folio (12 p.) PA 3975 M4 C22

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Medea. A Moon for the Misbegotten. Everett/Edwards (1975) Broadway Theatre Archive 2002 Interpretation of the play. In a towering performance, the late, Cassette (34 min.) great Jason Robards portrays a cynical, self- PA 3973 M4 C37 hating alcoholic actor based on O'Neill's elder brother, Jamie. The majestic Colleen Meet Marcel Marceau. Dewhurst plays the earthy, gruff daughter of Video Images (1988) his scheming Irish tenant farmer with whom Marceau provides voice-over the failed actor spends a soul-baring night of introduction to nine skits. guilt-ridden confessions, tenderness, and Video Cassette (53 min.) absolution. PN 2071 G4 M43 1 videodisc (135 min.) PS3529.N5 M682 2002 The Millionairess. BBC Video 2006 A Moon for the Misbegotten. "Epifania is glamorous, clever... and Caedmon (1968) also the richest woman in the world. After Stars Salome Jens, Mitchell Ryan, and yet another row with her spendthrift W. B. Brydon; Theodore Mann, husband, Epifania meets an intriguing Director. Egyptian doctor. But she faces the challenge 3 Cassettes her money-mad father imposed on her PS 3529 N5 M6 before his death: She can only marry a man who can convert 150 pounds into 50,000 Moss Hart Speaking and Reading from pounds within six months"—Container "The Man Who Came to Dinner." In the bonus play, "set forty years in the Spoken Arts (1956) future, where the king must match wits with Disc (mono) an unruly mistress and a cabinet seeking to PS 3515 A7943 A3 transform the nation into a constitutional monarchy"—Container Mother Courage and Her Children. 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) Everett/Edwards (1973) PR5363 .M55 2006 Lecture on the play. Cassette (41 min.) Les Miserables: Stage By Stage. PT 2603 R397 M823 Polygram Music Video (1988) The making of the play. Mother Wove the Morning. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Carol Lynn Pearson (1992) M 1500 M77 A one woman play written and performed by Carol Lynn Pearson. Sixteen Moliere. women from history speak their lives: a Leeds University (1983) paleolithic woman, an Egyptian priestess, a Portrays the playwright's life story and biblical woman, a Gnostic woman, a presents a view of the theatre, styles, and medieval witch, a Shaker deaconess, and customs of 17th century France. others. Their stories show the human family Text (52 p.) has always longed for its Mother in heaven Video Cassette (35 min.) and now invites her to come home. PQ 1852 M64 Video Cassette (2 hr. 15 min.) BL 215.5 M67 Molière and the Comédie Française. IASTA (1982) Provides a brief history of the Comédie française & gives an analysis of two scenes from Molière plays, Le Misanthrope and Tartuffe 1 Video Cassette (17 min.) PQ1860 .M573 1982

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Mourning Becomes Electra. Music and Sound. Caedmon (1972) Perspective Films (1975) "The American Shakespeare Festival Scenes from Wild Strawberries, Theatre Production" starring Nevsky, Dodes'ka-den, Alexander, Lee Richardson, Peter Dead of the Night, and Valerie illustrate the Thompson, Sada Thompson; Michael Kahn, various uses of sound and music as Director. conscious and unconscious influences in the 4 Cassettes cinema. PS 3529 N5 M8 Video Cassette (22 min.) Guide . PN 1995.7 M8 Everett/Edwards Lecture on the play. Native Son. Cassette Monterey Home Video, c1996 PS 3529 N5 M88 Bigger Thomas picked up a very drunk Mary Dalton from a night on the town. Mourning Becomes Electra. He had to quietly carry her up the stairs at Image Entertainment, [2001] the house, so as not to wake Mrs. Dalton. A classic American drama of love, But Mrs. Dalton called out to Mary, and in revenge, murder and suicide set against the order to keep from being discovered, he backdrop of a small New England town in covered Mary's face with a pillow - silencing the post-Civil War era. Each episode her forever. Terrified, Bigger hid the body, concludes with an after word by Erich Segal which led to a feverish manhunt, and a trial containing biographical information on which shook not only the Dalton family but Eugene O'Neill. the whole city of Chicago as well, exposing 2 videodiscs (290 min.) the fears and prejudice of the 1940s. PS3529.N5 M88 2001 Video Cassette (1 hr. 52 min.) PS3545.R815 N252 1996 Mrs. Warren's Profession. BBC Video 2006 A New Tragicall Comedie of Apius and What is the profession that has Virginia. enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all Films for the Humanities (1994) the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren Based on Chaucer’s “Physician’s discovers her mother's secrets and Tale”, this 1560s “heroine” play is an English embraces her own power as a "modern" hybrid of popular Senecan tragedy and woman. In the bonus play, Mrs. Landfrey homebred drama in which Morality and her three children return to England characters like Conscience and Justice and after 18 years abroad, where a chance the Vice, Haphazard, interact with historical encounter with their traditionalist husband personages and slapstick comic characters. and father quickly entangles them in a series Video Cassette (1 hr. 27 min.) of comic events PR 2411 A73 1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) PR5363 .M725 2006 . Everett/Edwards Lecture on the play. Cassette PS 3545 I5365 N53

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Nightwalk / A Collective Work Created by Oedipus at Colonus. the Open Theatre. Films for the Humanities (1988) Creative Arts Television Archive (1997) Stars Anthony Quayle, Juliet The Open Theater group in ... its last Stevenson, and Kenneth Haigh. performance before disbanding. Nightwalk is 2 Video Cassettes (4 hr.) a collective theater work, the creation of PA 4414 068 T38 pt. 1-2 writers Jean-Claude van Itallie, , Megan Terry, and Open Theater Oedipus at Colonus. director , as well as the Films for the Humanities & Sciences actors. It is a montage of surreal situations (2004) that examine the human condition in worlds Presents the second of the three both real and fantastic, presenting Theban plays by Sophocles in a exagerrations of human pretensions. Human contemporary translation. This second and birdlike creatures weave in and out. The segment of the trilogy recounts the final 'plot' is a journey, liberated from days of the blind Oedipus in which he rails conventional thought"—Container. against the indignities of old age. 1 videocassette (55 min.) 2 videodiscs (134 min.) PN2297.O6 N53 1997 PA4414.O68 T38 2004

No Exit. Oedipus the King. Everett/Edwards Everett/Edwards Lecture on the play. Lecture on the play. Cassette Cassette PQ 2637 A82 H84 PA 4413 07 C38

The N-Town Passion. Oedipus the King. University of California (1990) Films for the Humanities (1988) Based on plays 29-32 of the N-Town Stars John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, cycle. and Michael Pennington. Video Cassette (1 hr. 8 min.) Video Cassette (2 hr.) Script (27 p.) PA 4414 07 T38 PR 1261 C6 N22 Oedipus the King. Oba Koso: Nigerian Music and Dance See the Rise of Greek Tragedy. Drama. Creative Arts Television (1996) Oedipus the King, By Sophocles. Excerpts from the famous Yoruba Films for the Humanities & Sciences folklore drama about a wicked man who tries (2004) to overthrow the king. Includes intricate The play tells the beginning of the dance steps, brilliantly colored costumes, Oedipus saga, setting the stage and and Yoruba instruments and singing. creating the characters who will continue the 1 videocassette (28 min.) story to its conclusion in Antigone. Oedipus M1831.Y6 O23 1996 the King recounts the story of Oedipus, King of Thebes, a man, who out of stubborn Oedipus at Colonus. pride, must know the truth at all costs. Everett/Edwards 2 videodiscs (120 min.) Lecturer gives some biography on the PA4414.O7 T38 2004 author and interprets the play. Cassette (33 min.) Oliver Twist. PA 4414 O68 C37 Home Vision 2 Video Cassettes (5 hr. 33 min.) PR 4567 A2 O45 pt. 1-2

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On Singing Onstage. The Open Theater: "Fable". Hal Leonard Corp (2002) Creative Arts Television (1998) Teaches David Craigs's techniques This program examines approaches for singing for musical theater. to acting through experiments with the voice 1. Lectures and the body. It features members of the 2. Technique Open Theater ensemble in an excerpt from 3. Subtext their production "Fable", an interview with 4. Process/The ballad director, and scenes with 5. Process/The uptempo voice coach Kristin Linklater working with 6. Performance/Q&A students in innovative acting exercises. 6 Video Cassettes 1 videocassette (29 min.) Guide (64 p.) PN2061 .O64 1998 MT820 .O5 2002 The Oresteia. On With the Show. Blackstone Audio, p2007 Amargosa Opera House, (1993) The Oresteia by Aeschylus, the Mini- musical comedy to only extant trilogy among the Greek commemorate twenty-five "years of tragedies, is one of the great foundational adventure" at the Amargosa Opera House. texts of Western culture. Beginning with The mini-musical is based on Marta Agamemnon, which describes Becket's life. She discusses the history of Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War the Amargosa Opera House and her and his murder at the hands of his wife, involvement with it before the performance Clytemnestra, and continuing through of the mini-musical. Orestes' murder of Clytemnestra in The 1 videocassette (ca. 54 min.) libation bearers and his acquittal at Athena's M1500.B413 O5 1993 court in The Eumenides, the trilogy traces the evolution of justice in human society One Third of a Nation a Living from blood vengeance to the rule of law. It is Newspaper. also a story in which human action is N.J. : Films for the Humanities & simultaneously willed and determined. Sciences, [2004] 4 sound discs (3 hr., 30 min.) Adaptation of a play produced by The PA3827.A7 J64 2007 's "Living Newspaper" in the 1930s. Dramatizes the The Oresteia: Adapted from Aeschylus. housing problem during The Depression and B/V Productions; (2001) includes still photos from the period. Film of the three Greek tragedies by Videodisc also has commentaries and Aeschylus based on the story of interview from the Federal Theatre Project at Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes. George Mason University. 1 Video Cassette (74 min.) 1 videodisc (55 min.) PA3827.A7 W432 2001 HD7287.6.A3 O64 2004 Oriental Theatre. O'Neill, Eugene. Kaidib Films (1967) NP Tape Library Scenes from Noh, Kabuki, and Lecture on the playwright. Bunraku introduce the various styles of Cassette drama in the Orient, mainly Japan. PS 3529 N5 Z7982 85 Slides Study Guide PN 2921 07

The Origin of the Drama & Theater. EVN Pt. 1: The Origin of the Drama (13 min.) Pt. 2: The Origin of the Theater (15 min.) 2 Video Cassettes PN 1737 O75 pt. 1-2

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Oscar Wilde: Spendthrift of Genius. Performance Tonight! Films for the Humanities (1994) Amargosa Opera House, (1992) Portrait of Wilde's meteoric rise and Marta Becket gives a brief history of fall. the Amargosa Opera House and then Video Cassette (, 1 hr.) performs ballets from her touring show PR 5823 O68 which became her first performance in the opera house. She gives an introduction to Paradise Now. each ballet. Mystic Fire Video (1995) 1 videocassette (78 min.) This videotape was shot during the GV1790.A1 G65 1992 last presentations of Paradise now in Brussels and before 7,000 spectators in the Persuasion. Berlin Sportspalast. Expressionistic coloring BBC Video (2004) has been injected by electronic means. Adaptation of Jane Austen's novel During the four hours of performance, a about lost and found love. Anne is baccanal of forms and confrontations goes persuaded to reject a proposition of on in every part of the theater. Paradise now marriage from the man she loves due to his is mind blowing and innovative blurring of lack of fortune. Years later she is made the the line between political action, offer again. psychotherapy, tribal ritual and experimental 1 videodisc (225 min.) theatre. PR4034.P4 B33 2004 1 videocassette (105 min.) PN2193.E86 P37 1995 Persuasion. BBC Video 2008 Paris et les Romanciers Francais du Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with Dixneuvieme Siecle = Paris and the handsome young naval officer Frederick Nineteenth Century Novelists. Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with Northwood Institute and the I Institute for neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Advanced Studies in Theater Arts Anne was persuaded to break off her (IASTA) (1987) engagement. Eight years later, Anne has Shows the influence of Paris lived to regret her decision. She never on the lives and works of 19th century stopped loving Wentworth, and when he novelists, including Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, returns from sea with rank and fortune, she George Sand, and Honoré de Balzac can only watch as every eligible young Video Cassette (24 min.) woman in the district falls at his feet. Can PQ653 .P37 1987 Frederick forgive Anne for listening to her family instead of her heart? Performance. 1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) Janus Films (1979) PR4034.P4 B33 2008 Examples of several styles and aspects of movie acting shown by Sir Peter Pan. in Richard III, Katherine Professional Media (1990) Hepburn in Summertime, Charlie Chaplin in Stars Mary Martin, , the Gold Rush, and Anthony Quinn in La Sondra Lee. Strada. Video Cassette (1 hr. 40 min.) Video Cassette (20 min.) M 1500 C52 P48 PN 1995 P4 Phedre. Video Images (1968) Stars Marie Bell. In French with English subtitles. Video Cassette (1 hr. 33 min.) PQ 1898 A4362

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Phedre. Preserving the Legacy. Everett/Edwards Theatre Communications Group, c2003 Lecture on the play. " ... tells the story of the American not- Cassette for-profit theatre movement over the past 50 PQ 1898 G38 years through the eyes of some of its most noted practitioners. Each of the nine Philoctetes. individuals served as the President of the Everett/Edwards Board of Directors of TCG, the national Interpretation. organization for theatre, during the past 40 Cassette years and their stories become a microcosm PA 4413 P5 C38 of the field itself. As theatre in the U.S. moves further into the 21st century, it Pinter on Pinter. becomes increasingly urgent to document Center for Cassette Studies and celebrate the accomplishments and Discussion of the playwright's work. artistry of our past. These interviews offer Cassette insights into what it means to create a life in PR 6066 I53 Z56 the theatre: their first encounter with theatre, their early careers, their heroes, the role of The Playboy of the Western World. the artist and the future of theatre"--TGC Caedmon (1974) web site. Stars Cyril Cusack and Siobhan v. 1. Zelda Fichandler, Peter Zeisler, McKenna. Arvin Brown (4 hrs 35 min.) 2 Discs (stereo) v. 2. Lloyd Richards, Gordon PR 5532 P5 C2 Davidson, Tonen Sara O'Connor (5 hrs 4 minutes) Playboy of the Western World. v. 3. Anne Bogart, Ricardo Khan, Everett/Edwards Kent Thompson (4 hrs 5 min) Lecture on the play. 3 videodiscs (824 min.) Cassette PN2266 .P74 2003 1-3 PR 5532 P52 S73 Prometheus Bound. Portrait of Moliere. Everett/Edwards Intl. Film Bureau (1972) Lecture on the play. Weaves together scenes from Le Cassette (25 min.) Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, Le Malade PA 3825 P8 C38 Imaginaire, L'Avare, Don Juan, L'Ecole des Femmes, and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. (Bernard Shaw's) Pygmalion. In French with English subtitles. Criterion Collection (2000) Video Cassette (1 hr. 2 min.) Professor Henry Higgins takes a PQ 1852 B372 bet that he can make a Cockney flower girl into a young lady of society. 1 videodisc (96 min.) PR5363 .P833 2000

Pygmalion. BBC Video 2006 In "Pygmalion," a stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess. "Androcles and the lion" is the story of Androcles, a Christian who is about to be sent to the lions for being a heretic in the Roman Empire. 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) PR5363 .P8332 2006

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Pygmalion. Resist. Public Media Home Vision (1938) First Run/Icaurs Films (2003) Stars Leslie Howard and Wendy Documentary directed by Dirk Hiller. Szuszies (former Living Theatre member) Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) about the Living Theatre, an experimental PR 5363 P833 troop of anarcho-pacifists. The film follows the group to performances and non-violent Racine. protests around the world from Lebanon on Leeds University (1983) the eve of Israel's expulsion, Genoa during Brief biographical details and analysis the G-8 summit and protests, Times Square of Racine's work. to protest the death penalty and Washington Video Cassette (35 min.) Square in New York at Ground Zero in the Text (70 p.) wake of 9/11 as the country readies for war. PQ 1905 R32 1 videocassette (90 min.) PN2297.L5 R47 2003 A Raisin in the Sun. RCA Columbia Pictures (1981) The Rise of Greek Tragedy: Sophocles: Stars Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Oedipus the King. and Ruby Dee. Films for the Humanities (198?) Video Cassette (2 hr. 8 min.) Explains tragedy as a form and PS 3515 A515 R352 acquaints audiences with Oedipus the King. Photographed in the ancient Greek theatre, A Raisin in the Sun. Amphiaraion. Using tragic masks, this Everett/Edwards production emphasizes the modernity and Lecture on the play. the eternity of the play. James Mason as Cassette Oedipus, Claire Bloom as Jocasta, & Ian PS 3515 A515 R32 Richardson as Tiresias. Video Cassette (45 min.) Ralph Ellison's King of the Bingo Game. PA 4413 07 R57 PBS Home Video (2000) Ellison writes about a struggling The Rivals. young black man who frequents the local Films for the Humanities & Sciences, bingo game in depression-era Harlem and [2007] experiences a new sense of control over his A dramatization of Richard Sheridan's destiny. play of the same title, about the comedy of Video Cassette (30min) errors that ensues when a dashing young PS3555.L625 K532 2000 man assumes a double identity and is betrothed to the same girl twice. The Regard of Flight and The Clown 1 videodisc (113 min.) Bagatelles. PR3682 .R48 2007 Broadway Theatre Archive (2000?) Presents theatrical and musical [Robeson] Speak of Me as I am. sketches acted by clown Bill Irwin, wittily Films for the Humanities (1999) critiquing the "new theater." This program, featuring Sidney Poitier Video Cassette (59 min.) and Harry Belafonte, presents an overview PN6120.H8 R43 2000 of the life of Paul Robeson-- star athlete, world-renowned singer and actor, political The Renaissance Stage. activist and Communist sympathizer. Films for the Humanities (1990) Features interviews with academic experts Traces the earliest Renaissance and contemporaries such as Studs Terkel, attempts to stage classical drama through Martin Duberman, Pete Seeger, and Oscar the application of medieval concepts of Brown, Jr. production. Video Cassette (55 min.) Video Cassette (30 min.) E185.97.R63 S64 1999 PN 1791 R45

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Robin Hood and the Friar. A Room of One's Own. The Writing Co. Arthur Cantor Films (1980) Presents an introduction followed by as Virginia Woolf. the performance. Performed by the Poculi Video Cassette (55 min.) Ludique Societas and filled with vigorous PR 6045 O72 R662 action, songs, morris dancing and fighting. Video Cassette (23 min.) A Room of One's Own. PR 644 R62 R62 Films for the Humanities & Sciences (2004) The Role of Women in the Movies. Eileen Atkins' one-woman stage Coronet (1978) performance recreates Virginia Woolf's talk A history of the treatment of women to the women of Girton College, Cambridge. on the screen. Features sequences from the A call to women to declare their films of Lillan Gish, Theda Bara, Clara Bow, independence, talent and freedom to write, Gloria Swanson, Jean Harlow, Carole think, love and labor, and to control their Lombard, Pola Negri, Louise Brooks, own destinies, yet realize necessary Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Mae communion on all levels between men and West. women. Video Cassette (28 min.) 1 videodisc (53 min.) PN 1995.9 W6 R64 PR6045.O72 R662 2004

Roman Comedy. . IASTA (1987) Paramount, c2004 Pt. 1 - Scenes from Amphitryon and A Serafina is a Sicillian woman who Comedy of Errors are compared to show now lives in the American South. She is how Roman comedy inspired later mourning the death of her beloved husband, playwrights. constantly telling herself stories of their time Pt. 2 - Uses scenes from Phormio together. Her fragile, emotional existence is juxtaposed with scenes from Scapin's Frank shattered when she discovers that her to show how each play reflects the society in husband had been having an affair. Luckily, which it was written. Serafina meets truck driver Mangiacavello 2 Video Cassettes and their tentative romance may help her PA 6069 R64 pt. 1-2 through this troubling time. 1 videodisc (116 min.) [Romeo and Juliet] Franco Zeffirelli's PS3545.I5365 R682 2004 Production of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Rosmersholm. Paramount Pictures, (2000) Everett/Edwards Presents the Franco Zefferelli production Lecture/analysis of the play. of Shakespeare's tragedy about two Cassette (36 min.) teenagers who fall in love, encounter PT 8877 S73 opposition from their families, and take their lives. 1 videodisc (138 min.) PR2831 .A23 2000

Romeo and Juliet. Paramount Home Video (1980) Franco Zeffirelli production. Cast: Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Milo O'Shea, Michael York, Pat Heywood. Video Cassette (2 hr. 18 min.) PN 1997.85 R65

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Saint Genet. [Sandbox] "The American Dream" and Films for the Humanities (2001) the "Sandbox". Biography of French novelist Jean Everett/Edwards Genet. Jean Genet spent the greater part of Lecture on the plays. his early life in poverty or prison, and his Cassette plays, novels, and film describe the world of PS 3551 L25 A63 pimps, prostitutes, thieves, down-and-outs, and homosexual love. Filmed shortly before Sanford Meisner. the author's death in 1985, this program Films for the Humanities (198?) includes an interview with the author, Here we see Meisner at work, helping documentary footage and readings, and actors reach inside themselves for the best. scenes from performances of his plays. Interviews with some Meisner students. 1 Video Cassette (59 min.) , Peter Falk, David Mamet, PQ2613.E53 Z86 2001 Tony Randall, & Joanne Woodward explain what Meisner gave them. . Video Cassette (56 min.) Everett/Edwards PN 2287 M548 S25 Lecture/interpretation of the play. Cassette School for Scandal. PR 5363 S3 S73 Video Yesteryear (1965) Features Joan Plowright and Felix Salvation. Aylmer. Filmed before a live audience. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Video Cassette (1 hr. 40 min.) (2003) PN 1997.85 S36 Set in Kansas in 1915, thirteen year-old Langston Hughes's aunt's well The School for Wives. meaning efforts to bring him into the spiritual Caedmon (1971) fold results in a moral crisis when he has to Stars Brian Bedford, Joan Van Ark. choose between pleasing his elders or being 3 Discs (stereo) true to himself. PQ 1832 E3 C3 1 videodisc (31 min.) PS3515.U274 Z4642 2003 School For Wives. Theatre Works, p2009 Samuel Beckett: As the Story was Told. Presents a satirical comedy about a Films for the Humanities & Sciences man who is undone by his own double (1998) dealing and double standards A biography of Beckett in two parts, 2 sound discs (99 min.) each 55 min. in length. Includes excerpts PQ1832.E3 S58 2009 from a performance of the semi- autobiographical Krapp's last tape, Screenwriting. previously unpublished letters, and Janus Films (1979) testimonies of people who knew the Irish Selections from Oliver Twist, novelist, poet and playwright. Metropolis, The 400 Blows, Pygmalion, and Video Cassette (1 hr. 50 min.) Caesar and Cleopatra illustrate various PR6003.E282 Z79993 1998 aspects of the role of the screenwriter. Video Cassette (24 min.) San Guo Yan Yi = Romance of the Three PN 1996 S2 Kingdoms. World Video & Supply (2004) Sea Gulls. Television adaptation of the classic Everett/Edwards Chinese epic about political rivalries during Lecture/interpretation. the Three Kingdoms period. Cassette (34 min.) 84 television episodes PG 3455 C5 S73 14 videodiscs in 2 vols. (50 min. each episode) PL2690 .S32 2004 v. 1 – 2

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The Seagull. Sensory Motor Exercises for Mouth and Audio Book Contractors, 2007 Jaw Health. Narrated by Flo Gibson TMJ Health (1988) 2 sound discs (2 hr., 8 min.) Designed to improve each PG3455.C5 S43 2007 fundamental aspect of mouth and jaw functioning. Used to relieve chronic tension The Second Mortgage. and abruxism, improve jaw placement and Amargosa Opera House, (1994) flexibility, and to alleviate many TMJ related Melodrama in one act and two symptoms. Includes ten 20 minute scenes, inspired by Marta Becket's real-life exercises. struggle to raise a second mortgage for 6 Cassettes Amargosa Opera House. Preceded by a Booklet (9 p.) brief history of the opera house. RK 470 Z44 1 videocassette (47 min.) PN2277.D42 S42 1994 Setting the Stage. Films for the Humanities (1988) The Second Shepherd's Play. An introduction to the art of Films for the Humanities (1985) scenography and to the workings of the Brings to life three critical works that mind of a scenic/lighting designer. constitute the beginnings of English drama: Numerous examples from contemporary the Easter trope Quein quaeritis and two Broadway stage are employed. mystery plays. The Brome Abraham and Video Cassette (30 min.) Isaac is performed on a pageant wagon. PN 2091 S8 S485 The Second Shepherd's Play is performed on the moors near Wakefield where it 7 Classic Plays. originated. Blackstone Audiobooks (2002) Video Cassette (52 min.) Contents -Medea / Euripides -- PR 1260 E37 Tempest / Shakespeare -- Imaginary invalid / Molière -- Camille / Dumas -- Enemy of the Sense and Sensibility. people / Ibsen -- Arms and the man / Shaw - Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1999] - Uncle Vanya / Chekhov Tells of the Dashwood sisters, 10 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, PN6112 .C53 2002 whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. The Seven One-Act Sea Plays. 1 videodisc (ca. 136 min.) Everett/Edwards PR4034 .S452 1999 Lecture on the plays. Cassette Three Sisters. PS 3529 N5 Z87 Kino on Video, 2003 Nearly a thousand miles away from Shakespeare's Globe. their beloved Moscow, three sisters live in Films for the Humanities & Sciences virtual exile. Olga attempts to support her (2006) family and home that is the sole legacy from The dream of actor/director Sam their late father. Masha finds relief from an Wanamaker, this film explores the planning empty marriage by being involved with a and reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe passionate young colonel. Irina wills herself Theatre; a day in the life of this theatre: to return the affections of an ardent suitor in behind-the-scenes preparations and the the hope that he will whisk her off to the city. emphasis on original practices, rehearsals, Sift through the debris of their shattered backstage drama and performance extracts dreams on the eve of the social and political from a production of Romeo and Juliet, upheaval that will transform Russia forever. together with glimpses into Globe Education 1 videodisc (162 min.) + 1 leaflet workshops and activities, the exhibition and PG3456.T8 T47 2003 tours. 1 videodisc (50 min.) PR2920 .S54 2006

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She Stoops to Conquer. Shurtleff on Acting. Heritage Theatre (2003) First Light Video Pub. An ambitious stepmother, a pragmatic Video Cassette father, impassioned sweethearts, and starry- PN 1995.9 C34 S58 eyed suitors are all sent spinning in Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy of manners-and Signals through the Flames: The Story of errors. Directed by Max Stafford-Clark and the Living Theatre. recorded at The Theatre Royal in Bath, this Mystic Fire Video (1989) production of She Stoops to Conquer played A film by Sheldon Rochlin and Maxine to rave reviews. Staged with authentic Harris outlining the tumultuous history of the costumes and sets, the commonly famous experimental group, the Living anthologized play makes an excellent Theatre. introduction to 18th-century theater. 1 videocassette (97 min.) 1 videodisc (139 min.) PN 2297.L5 S53 1989 PR3488 .S34 2003 Sir John Gielgud -- Talking With David Sheridan’s 18th Century England: The Frost. Rivals. PBS Video (1992) IASTA (1987) Interviews John Gielgud about his Begins with a portrait of Richard career, ideas on acting, and reminiscences Sheridan and the times in which he lived. of fellow actor. Features scenes from The Rivals. Explains Video Cassette (58 min.) how his plays reflect the balance and PN 2598 G45 J64 symmetry that influenced social and artistic expression in the Age of Enlightenment. Six Characters in Search of an Author. Video Cassette (33 min.) Everett/Edwards PR 3683 S598 Lecture on the play. Cassette Sheridan's 18th-century England Part 1, PQ 4835 I7 S44 The Rivals. Institute for Advanced Studies in Theatre Six Characters in Search of an Author. Arts, 1987 Kultur, [2002] Discusses Richard Sheridan's life and Actors in rehearsal are replaced by work, life in 18th century England, history of six strangers who appear mysteriously and the theater in England, and includes an who convince the director their story is more excerpt from Sheridan's play The rivals. interesting than the play in rehearsal. 1 videocassette (33 min.) 1 videodisc (90 min.) PR3683 .S598 – Videocassette PQ4835.I7 S445 2002

Sheridan's 18th century England. Part II, Something's Afoot. The School for Scandal. American Video Prod. (1985) Insight Media, [2006?] A musical comedy with Jean Includes background and Stapleton and Andy Gibb. commentary, followed by an abbreviated Video Cassette (2 hr.+) production of the comedy. M 1500 M32 S65 1 videodisc (36 min.) PR3682 .S3 2006

Shui Hu Zhuan = Water Margin. World Video & Supply, (2000) "43 television episodes". 9 videodiscs (ca. 2150 min.) PL2694 .S52 2000

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Speak for Yourself. The Stanislavsky Century. Theatre Arts Video Library (1988) Films for the Humanities (1993) A comprehensive vocal and physical Retraces his life and work against the warm-up routine for the business and backdrop of a tumultuous Russia. Shows professional person. Uses stretches from how he interacted with other giants of his yoga, modern dance and the martial arts, era: Lenin, Stalin, Meyerhold, Mayakovsky, accompanied by easy vocalization. Isadora Duncan and Stella Adler. Includes Strengthens the voice. scenes from Ibsen, Gogol, Hamlet, and Pt. 1: Relaxation & Stretching Malade Imaginaire. Pt. 2: Face Preparation 3 Video Cassettes (3 hr.) Pt. 3: Pitch & Resonance PN 2728 S78 S73 pt. 1-3 Pt. 4: Tongue Twisters Video Cassette (26 min.) Stanislavsky: Maker of Modern Theatre. Leaflet (4 p.) Films for the Humanities PN 4197 S64 Provides a first hand glimpse of the man whose precepts of "truth in art" have Stage Beauty. touched every dramatic work of this century. Lions Gate Home Entertainment, c2004 Video Cassette (28 min., b&w) Welcome to the 17th century stage, PN 2728 S78 S72 where Ned Kynaston's performance of Desdemona in Shakespeare's '' . brings the house down nightly. Ned is the MGM/UA Home Video (1992) "most beautiful woman on the London Cast: Norma Shearer, Clarke Gable. stage". That is, until the King renounces the Video Cassette (1 hr. 51 min.) royal edict that only men can play women on PS 3529 N5 S82 stage. Enter Maria, Ned's seemingly loyal dresser, who becomes an instant star, Strasberg on Acting. leaving Ned to suppress his ardent feminine Creative Arts Television (1995) traits and make a man of himself. Talks with Strasberg about his career 1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) and ideas. He reminisces about actors and PS3558.A7349 S73 2004 acting and lectures on acting. Video Cassette (28 min.) The Stage Fight Director. PN 2287 S77 S77 Theatre Arts Video Library (1990) Shows preparations for a production A Streetcar Named Desire. of Romeo and Juliet, detailing the intricacies Warner Bros. (1992) of stage fighting and the responsibilities of Stars Vivien Leigh, , the director. Kim Hunter, and . The original Video Cassette (30 min.) director’s version. PN 2071 F5 S73 Video Cassette (2 hr. 5 min.) PN 1997.85 S872 Stage Make-up. Media (2000?) A Streetcar Named Desire. Broe demonstrates several stage Warner Bros. (1997) makeup techniques using participants from Stars Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, the live audience as subjects. Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden. The original Video Cassette director’s version. PN2068 .S67 2000 DVD (2 hr. 5 min.) PS 3545 I5365 S873 1997 Stagedoor. Docurama (2005) A Streetcar Named Desire. Documentary on Stagedoor Manor, a Everett/Edwards theater camp in the Catskills for teenage Lecture on the play. singers and dancers. Cassette 1 videodisc (ca. 79 min.) PS 3545 I5365 S87 MT956 .S73 2005

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The Subject Was Roses. Tartuffe Columbia (1964) Kultur (2003) Original Broadway cast: Jack Moliere's comedy about the scoundrel Albertson, Irene Dailey, and . Tartuffe, who manipulates his way into the 3 Discs confidence and affection of Orgon, an PS 3513 I6437 S8 affluent bourgeois concerned with his own salvation, and whose wife and daughter . Tartuffe attempts to seduce. MGM/UA Home Video, c1968 1 videodisc (130 min.) Features the strained relationship PQ1842 .A37 2003 between a young veteran and his parents. 1 videocassette (ca. 107 min.) Tartuffe: An Analysis. PS3513.I6437 S872 1968 Insight Media (1994) Discusses Tartuffe as a Sunday in the Park with George. representative play of the French Karl Lorimar Video (1986) neoclassical period. Centers on plot, The Broadway musical inspired by the language, characterizations, and themes. painting, "A Sunday Afternoon Video Cassette (58 min.) on the Island of Grand Jotte and based PQ1842 .M64 loosely on the life of its creator, Georges Seurat. Stars and Mandy Le Tartuffe. Patinkin. Connoisseur Video (1991) Video Cassette (2 hr. 27 min.) In French with English subtitles. M 1500 S66 S84 Based on the stage production directed by Jacques Lassalle for the Theatre National Talking With David Frost: John Gielgud. de Strasbourg. PBS (1992) Video Cassette (2 hr. 20 min.) Frost talks with John Gielgud, the sole PQ 1843 T37 survivor of a fabled generation of actors. Gielgud mourns the loss of friends and El Teatro Del Siglo XVI Al XIX. recalls personal and professional stories of Editorial la Muraela (1981) their lives. Spanish American drama. Video Cassette (1 hr.) 60 Slides PN 2598 G45 J64 Book (56 p.) PQ 7082 D7 W42 Tartuffe. Everett/Edwards Teatro del Siglo XX. Lecture on the play. La Muralla (1981) Cassette (40 min.) Spanish American drama PQ 1842 G85 60 Slides Book (47 p.) Tartuffe. PQ 7082 D7 W54 RKO Home Video (1984) The Royal Shakespeare Co. presents Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the a brilliant production of Moliere's knife- American Stage. edged indictment of religious hypocrisy. Films for the Humanities (1994) Stars Anthony Sher and Alison Steadman. A study of Williams' life and work as a Video Cassette (1 hr. 50 min.) whole, ranging from his youth through his PQ 1842 A496 T37 final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from adaptations of his works. Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) PS 3545 I5365 Z844

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Terminal: A Collective Work . Theater of the Absurd: Luigi Pirandello: Creative Arts Television (1998) Six Characters in Search of an Author. A performance of several Films for the Humanities (1984?) experimental theater pieces by the Open Directed by Kenneth Frankel, brings Theater Ensemble. The theater pieces hold to vivid light the struggle to define reality a mirror up to contemporary values and which characterizes the playwright's work. theater conventions. "The metaphor through In Pirandello's view, man assumes reality in which this is focused is the 'Terminal' accordance with the role he plays; thus all experience: dying, death and afterdeath"— roles are disguises and life is an endless Container. comedy of illusion. This performance of Contents: large sections of "Six Characters" makes The state of dying perfect sense out of a sometimes confusing The dance on the graves of plot, as the distinguishing line between the dead acting and being continually vanishes and The embalming as required reappears. by law Video Cassette (52 min.) The runner who never gets PQ 4835 I7 A77 started Marie Leveau and the Theater of Bertolt Brecht. soldier Kaidib Films (1973) Cosmetics Photographs of the sets of 20 plays The initiation written by Brecht and produced 1949-1969 The responsible one by the Berliner Ensemble, East Berlin. The interview 46 Slides (b&w) The executed man and the Study Guide song PT 2603 R397 Z8 The dying imagine their judgment The Theatre in Early America. 1 videocassette (27 min.) Everett/Edwards PN2193.E86 T47 1998 Cassette PN 2237 S54 That's Black Entertainment. VCI (1989) Theatre U.S.A. An underground film industry Kaidib Films (1972) developed in the black community in the Illustrates the history of professional 30s. These black cast films were never community and educational theater in the intended to be viewed by white audiences. U.S. from 1700-1972 with views of theater Video Cassette (1 hr.) exteriors and interiors, stage sets, and PN 1995.9 N4 T43 performances. 700 Slides Study Guide PN 2221 T5

The Three Sisters. Ely Landau Actors Studio (1965) Staged for the Actors Studio Theatre on Broadway by Lee Strasberg. Producer Ely Landau; director Paul Bogart. Stars Geraldine Page, Shelley Winters, and Sandy Dennis. 2 Video Cassettes (2 hr. 46 min.) PG 3456 T8 A57 pt.1-2

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Three Sisters. Toronto Passion Play. Kino on Video, 2003 Media Centre (1981) Nearly a thousand miles away from A dramatization of the events of their beloved Moscow, three sisters live in Christ's passion based on a medieval virtual exile. Olga attempts to support her passion play. Provides historical family and home that is the sole legacy from background information. their late father. Masha finds relief from an Video Cassette (2 hr.) empty marriage by being involved with a PR 1261 P38 T67 passionate young colonel. Irina wills herself to return the affections of an ardent suitor in the hope that he will whisk her off to the city. Sift through the debris of their shattered dreams on the eve of the social and political upheaval that will transform Russia forever. 1 videodisc (162 min.) + 1 leaflet PG3456.T8 T47 2003

Three Sisters. Everett/Edwards (1976) Lecture/interpretation of the play. Cassette (29 min.) PG 3455 T8 S73

Three Sovereigns for Sarah. PBS Video (1999) In 1703 Sarah Cloyce, survivor of the Salem witchcraft hysteria presents her story to a special commission empowered to investigate the trials for witchcraft. The events leading to the trials and the suffering they caused are told in flashback fashion. 2 videocassettes (180 min.) PN1992.8.H56 T47 1999 + guide

Tiny Alice. Everett/Edwards Lecture on the play. Cassette PS 3551 L25 T56

Top Girls Insight Media (1996) Explores Caryl Churchhill's play about the deliberate choices women must make about their own presentation for advancement in a patriarchal world. Includes commentary before the play and interviews with the playwright, director and cast members after the play. 2 videodiscs (ca. 175 min.) PR6053.H786 T67 1996

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A Touch of Greatness. A Touch of the Poet. First Run Features, c2004 Everett/Edwards A documentary on the work of Albert Lecture on the play. Cullum, an elementary school teacher for Cassette over twenty years and a pioneer in modern PS 3529 N5 T68 American public education. Championing an unorthodox educational philosophy, Cullum The Tradition of Performing Arts in regularly taught his elementary school Japan. children literary masterpieces, most notably NCS Video (1989) the works of Shakespeare, Sophocles and Presents a variety of traditional Shaw. Combining interviews with Cullum Japanese theater...Noh, Bunraku, and the and his former students with archival total theater experience which is Kabuki. footage originally filmed by director Robert Includes backstage preparations and Downey, Sr., the film documents the performances by some of Japan's most unusual work of a school teacher who illustrious names. embraced creativity, and who sought to Video Cassette (38 min.) foster his students' motivation and self- PN 2924 T73 esteem through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play. "A touch of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. greatness": Featuring Albert Cullum and Caedmon (1972) elementary students of Westchester County, Performed by the Center Theatre NY. Cullum works with the students to put Group; directed by Gordon Davidson. on various theatrical productions of 2 Discs (stereo) Shakespeare's plays, the process of which PS 3503 E734 T7 is captured by the camera, and narrated by the students themselves. "Literature a-go- Trojan Women. go": An experimental film featuring students Home Video (1971) of Westchester County, NY performing and Stars Katherine Hepburn, Vanessa interpreting various pieces of Shakespeare's Redgrave, Irene Papas, and Genevieve plays, as well as engaging in other Cullum- Bujold. led activities. Depicts examples of Cullum's Video Cassette (1 hr .45 min.) mixing of poetry, drama, and play to foster PA 3975 T76 T76 educational motivation. "From sea to shining sea": A visual montage accompanied by an Trojan Women. audio recording of Cullum teaching a class Everett/Edwards (1973) of first grade students geography. Provides Historical background and an example of Cullum's method for fostering interpretation of the play. student participation through creative Cassette (36 min.) activities PA 3975 T76 C37 A touch of greatness / directed by Albert Cullum ; photographed and edited by Robert Downey, Sr. ; music by Tom O'Horgan and Geraldine Bryant (27 min., 1964) Literature au-go-go / directed by Albert Cullum ; photographed and edited by Robert Downey, Sr. ; music by Tom O'Horgan (26 min., 1966) From sea to shining sea / directed by Albert Cullum ; photographed and edited by Robert Downey, Sr. ; music by Tom O'Horgan (14 min., 196-?) 1 videodisc (54 min.) PN3171 .T68 2004

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The Trojan Women. Ubu Roi. Kino International Corp., [2004] Insight Media (1978) After the Greek victory in the Trojan This early example of expressionistic War, all the Trojan warriors and princes are drama employs many non-realistic theatrical slain and the women and children are left to conventions to depict man in a distorted and be divided among the conquerors. Beautiful exaggerated fashion in order to make fun of Cassandra is betrothed against her will and ambition, nobility, idealism and government. despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache A documentary section precedes the drama. discovers that her son is to be executed to Video Cassette (1 hr.) end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately PQ2619.A65 U33 1990z wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life. In the end, it is the . enduring dignity and unfaltering strength of Caedmon (1968) Hecuba, widowed queen of Troy, that makes Stars Milo O'Shea, , cowards of Troy's captors. Maurice Roeves; directed by Joseph Strick. 1 videodisc (105 min.) 2 Discs (stereo) PA3975.T76 T76 2004 Text (17 p.) PR 6019 09 U5 1968 Troupers. First Run/Icarus Films (1985) Ulysses: Soliloquies of Molly and Documentary history of the San Leopold Bloom. Francisco Mime Troupe, begun as street Caedmon (1956) theater in the 1960's and committed to Read by Siobhan McKenna and E.G. social change. Presented through historical Marshall. footage of the troupe's performances and Disc (mono) interviews. PR 6019 09 U5 c. 1-2 1 videocassette (84 min.) PN2297.S25 T76 1985 Uncle Vanya. Arthur Cantor Films (1963) Turn of the Screw. Staged at the Chichester Festival in WGBH Boston Video (2004) England in 1962. Stars Laurence Olivier, Henry James' chilling ghost tale about Joan Plowright, , Michael a governess hired by a charming bachelor to Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike. look after two young children in a grand Video Cassette (1 hr. 50 min.) mansion in rural England where sinister PG 3456 D5 G373 events place their lives in jeopardy. 1 videodisc (120 min.) Uncle Vanya. PS2116 .T84 2004 Caedmon (1964) Sir Laurence Olivier. Two Mystery Plays from the York Cycle: 2 Discs (stereo) The Resurrection and Hortulanus. Text Films for the Humanities PG 3456 D5 C3 Seen as they were performed on pageant wagons during the 1992 York Vaudeville Videos. Festival. Comics, jugglers, animal acts, skaters, Video Cassette (50 min.) famous names & forgotten names. PR 1261 Y672 Video Cassette (1 hr) PN 1968 U6 V38 vol. 1

Vintage Hitchcock. Coronet Film (1978) Video Cassette (29 min.) PN 1998.3 H58 V55

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Volpone. Wendy Wasserstein. Everett/Edwards (1973) The Bureau (1982) Lecture on the play. Interviews playwright, Wendy PR 2622 M26 Wasserstein. Includes excerpts from her play, Uncommon Women and Others. Voltaire. Video Cassette (30 min.) Leeds University (1983) PS 3573 A798 Z84 Video Cassette (35 min.) Text (62 p.) West Side Story. PQ 2099 V64 CBS Fox (1981) Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Waiting for Godot. Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Films for the Humanities & Sciences Chakiris. (1997) 1 Video Cassettes (2 hr. 31 min.) Professors Gedalof and Parker take M 1500 B5365 W572 to the stage to explore the many oppositions at work in this Beckett drama. They perform Who am I This Time? various scenes from the play and analyze Monterey Home Video (1999) them. Two shy people find love through their Video Cassette (28 min.) roles in a local theatre production. PR6003.E282 E64 1997 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) PS3572.O5 W462 1999 Waiting in the Wings: Theater in Las Vegas. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? KLVX (1989) Everett/Edwards Discusses community theater in Las Lecture on the play. Vegas, NV., and its history. Cassette Video Cassette (29 min.) PS 3551 L25 W46 PN 2267 W33 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Walter Kerr on Theater. Warner Home Video, c2006 Learning Corp. of America (1970) A couple is invited to the home of a Demonstrates the unique professor and his sharp-tongued wife, and characteristics of live theater as compared are treated to verbal battles by their hosts. to film. Scenes from five plays of varying 2 videodiscs (131 min.) styles: No Place To Be Somebody, Joseph PS3551.L25 W47 2006 Papp's production of Richard III, The Importance of Being Earnest, Prometheus, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Open Theatre's production of The Warner Home Video, [1997] Serpent. A freewheeling, headlong slide into Video Cassette (1/2 in., 27 min.) the corrosive hell of a marriage twisted by PN 2038 W34 years of hatred and humiliation. 1 videodisc (131 min.) The Way of the World. PS3551.L25 W47 1997 Insight Media (1978) Contains shortened versions of Acts Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? II, III, IV, and V. Includes explanatory Warner Home Video (1966) commentary. An adaptation by Ernest Lehman. Video Cassette (,1 hr.) Stars Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, PR 3364 W32 Sandy Dennis, and George Segal. Video Cassette (2 hr 7 min.) PS 3551 L25 W47

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [Woolf] Virginia Woolf. Columbia (1963) Films for the Humanities (1997) Stars , Arthur Hill, and Those who knew Woolf trace her life . and career. Examines her impressionistic 4 Discs style and stream-of-consciousness PS 3551 L25 W512 techniques through excerpts from her most famous works. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Video Cassette (51 min.) Warner Home Video (1987) PR 6045 O72 Z88 Videodisc recording of the 1966 motion picture. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Working Without a Script: Creating a Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Culture of "Yes, And" Dennis. Second City Communications (2005) 2 Videodiscs (2 hr. 9 min.) This new training PS 3551 L25 W52 program from the famous Second City theater group uses video clips, PowerPoint Wild Duck. presentations, and targeted activities to Everett/Edwards teach how the basics of improvisation will Cassette (41 min.) help your organization communicate better, PT 8881 R44 build stronger teams, and create a positive work environment. [Williams] Focus on Tennessee Williams: 2 videodiscs (14 min.) + 1 A Giant of Stage Realism Discusses His CD-ROM + 1 workbook (17 p.) Foremost Plays. HF5718 .W67 2005 Center for Cassette Studies (1969) Cassette The York Cycle in the Fifteenth Century. PS 3545 I5365 Z488 Instructional Media Centre Toronto (198?) [Williams] Works of Tennessee Williams. Describes the Corpus Christi play Lecture on the quality of his playwriting. performed in England from before 1376 until Cassette 1569. PS 3545 I5365 Z75 Video Cassette (19 min.) PR 644 Y6 Y67 Words and music Voices International, [1989?] York Mystery Plays: The Annunciation "An American national premiere of and Joseph's Trouble about Mary. one of the radio plays of Samuel Beckett Films for the Humanities (1997) and a documentary about the play and its Uses a traveling stage, period place in the context of Beckett's work."-- costumes, and a live audience to capture Guide in container. the flavor of the English dramatic tradition in 1 sound disc its infancy. PR6003.E282 W66 1989 Video Cassette (25 min.) PR 1261 Y67 Women in Power: Aristophanes. Films for the Humanities (1988) Two plays demonstrate the different concepts of funny and different functions of comedy in democratic Greece and autocratic Rome. Video Cassette (58 min.) PA 3161 C53

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