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A playwright's evening, Charles Mee & Tony Kushner Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title
A playwright's evening, Charles Mee & Tony Kushner [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication
2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Hopper, Tim
  • Ireland, Marin
  • Maleczech, Ruth
  • Messina, Chris
  • Whitlock, Isiah, Jr.
  • Wolf, Rita
  • Kushner, Tony
  • Mee, Charles L.
  • Nicola, James C.
  • Amicarella, Toni.
  • Cronson, Mary Sharp.
  • New York Theatre Workshop (New York, N.Y.)
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (82 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
This program features a panel discussion of playwrights and works presented by New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), interspersed with readings from the plays of Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, and Charles L. Mee. The panelists, including NYTW artistic director Nicola as well as Kushner and Mee, discuss the history of the company and its mission of presenting plays that are experimental in form and that synthesize the personal, psychological, historical, and political. The playwrights talk about their experiences working with the company, and describe the genesis of the plays being excerpted.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.
Series Statement
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 197
Uniform Title
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Alternative Title
A playwright's evening with the New York Theatre Workshop
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Video.
  • Readings.
Credits (note)
  • Play excerpts written by Caryl Churchill (Far away, Lighting shining in Buckinghamshire, and Mad forest) ; Tony Kushner (Homebody/Kabul, The illusion, and Slavs!) ; and Charles L. Mee (First love, An investigation into the murder in El Salvador, and Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited).
Event (note)
  • Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Nov. 3 and 4, 2002. (Viewer copy is Nov. 3, 2002.)
Funding (note)
  • With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-1200
OCLC
85845687
Title
A playwright's evening, Charles Mee & Tony Kushner [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Imprint
2002.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 197
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Credits
Play excerpts written by Caryl Churchill (Far away, Lighting shining in Buckinghamshire, and Mad forest) ; Tony Kushner (Homebody/Kabul, The illusion, and Slavs!) ; and Charles L. Mee (First love, An investigation into the murder in El Salvador, and Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited).
Performer
Play excerpts read by Tim Hopper, Marin Ireland, Ruth Maleczech, Chris Messina, Isiah Whitlock, and Rita Wolf. Panelists: Tony Kushner, Charles L. Mee, and James C. Nicola. Moderator: Toni Amicarella.
Event
Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Nov. 3 and 4, 2002. (Viewer copy is Nov. 3, 2002.)
Funding
With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Added Author
Hopper, Tim, actor.
Ireland, Marin, actor.
Maleczech, Ruth, actor.
Messina, Chris, actor.
Whitlock, Isiah, Jr., actor.
Wolf, Rita, actor.
Kushner, Tony, interviewee.
Mee, Charles L., interviewee.
Nicola, James C., interviewee.
Amicarella, Toni. Moderator
Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer
New York Theatre Workshop (New York, N.Y.)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-1200
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