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[Interviews with Wendy Wasserstein, A. R. Gurney, Ed Asner, and John Guare]

Title
[Interviews with Wendy Wasserstein, A. R. Gurney, Ed Asner, and John Guare] [videorecording] / City University Television, The Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (CASTA) [presents]
Publication
New York, [between 1988 and 1991]

Details

Additional Authors
  • Gurney, A. R. (Albert Ramsdell), 1930-2017
  • Asner, Edward
  • Guare, John
  • Wasserstein, Wendy
  • Wilson, Edwin, 1927-
  • City University of New York.
Description
1 videocassette (VHS) (112 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
  • Four separate interviews, approximately 28 min. each.
  • Wendy Wasserstein discusses her beginnings as a playwright at Smith College and Yale School of Drama, meeting people at Yale University with whom she still associates, the autobiographical nature of women characters in her plays, how she gives her characters wit and comedy, and her play The Heidi chronicles, its construction and the influence on it of the women's movement.
  • A.R. Gurney discusses how he wrote plays while teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his plays' form and structure particularly in Cocktail hour, Children, and The dining room, and how his work reflects the people that he knows and their Eastern establishment milieu.
  • Ed Asner talks about the two years he acted in Chicago in Paul Sills company, performing in New York City in Threepenny opera at Theatre de Lys, moving to Los Angeles to work in film, television, and public radio, and the political difficulties of being President of the Screen Actors Guild.
  • John Guare discusses the structure of a well-made play, the success of his play House of blue leaves and how it was written, and his attempts in three historical plays, Women in water, Gardenia, and Lydie Breeze, to imitate the historical sweep of 19th century novels.
Series Statement
CUNY Spotlight
Subjects
Genre/Form
Interviews.
Note
  • Part of the series, CUNY Spotlight, broadcast on CUNY-TV, sponsored by the City University of New York.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y.
Call Number
NCOW 92
OCLC
NYPG98-F342
Title
[Interviews with Wendy Wasserstein, A. R. Gurney, Ed Asner, and John Guare] [videorecording] / City University Television, The Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (CASTA) [presents]
Imprint
New York, [between 1988 and 1991]
Series
CUNY Spotlight
Performer
Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.
Event
Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y.
Added Author
Gurney, A. R. (Albert Ramsdell), 1930-2017, interviewee.
Asner, Edward, interviewee.
Guare, John, interviewee.
Wasserstein, Wendy, interviewee.
Wilson, Edwin, 1927- interviewer.
City University of New York.
Research Call Number
NCOW 92
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