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Women in theatre.

Title
Women in theatre. Blanka Zizka [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.
Publication
New York : CUNY-TV, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Zizka, Blanka
  • Winer, Linda
  • Robins, Isobel
  • Slaughter, Harriet
  • Mayleas, Ruth
  • Corwin, Betty L
  • Isaacson, Robert
  • Malone, Audra D
  • CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
  • League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
  • City University of New York.
  • League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
  • CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.
Description
1 videodisc (DVD) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Blanka Zizka discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. After growing up in Communist Czechoslovakia and then spending two years in refugee camps in West Germany, Zizka eventually landed in Philadelphia to become the artistic director of The Wilma Theater with her husband Jiri. They developed many groundbreaking productions, including stage adaptations of George Orwell's Animal farm and 1984, the East Coast premiere of Tom Stoppard's The invention of love, and works by Athol Fugard, Doug Wright and Dael Orlandersmith. Zizka elaborates on her decision not to become a New York director but to remain in her artistic home of Philadelphia; what she sees as the theatre's relationship to politics; and the things that initially surprised her about American theater.
Series Statement
Women in theatre
Alternative Title
Dialogues with notable women in American theatre
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Television.
  • Talk shows.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • Credits at end of videodisc.
  • Program is also available at www.cuny.tv.
  • On container: Season 5, episode 6.
  • "Discussion program spotlighting prominent women from the theatre, including performers, playwrights, producers and designers."
Performer (note)
  • Interviewer: Linda Winer.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. in Oct. 2006. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 11, 2007.
Call Number
NCOX 2283
OCLC
175293736
Title
Women in theatre. Blanka Zizka [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.
Imprint
New York : CUNY-TV, c2007.
Series
Women in theatre
Performer
Interviewer: Linda Winer.
Event
Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. in Oct. 2006. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, May 11, 2007.
Local Note
Gift of The League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV.
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Added Author
Zizka, Blanka, interviewee.
Winer, Linda, interviewer.
Robins, Isobel, producer.
Slaughter, Harriet, producer.
Mayleas, Ruth, producer.
Corwin, Betty L, producer.
Isaacson, Robert, producer.
Malone, Audra D, director.
CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
City University of New York.
League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.
Research Call Number
NCOX 2283
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