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Changing stages

Title
Changing stages : Part 5, Between Brecht and Beckett. Part 6, The law of gravity [videorecording] / a BBC-Thirteen-WNET co-production ; written and presented by Richard Eyre ; executive producer, Andrea Miller ; executive producer, Jac Venza [for Thirteen/WNET] ; "Between Brecht and Beckett" produced and directed by Jamie Muir ; "The law of gravity" produced and directed by Roger Parsons ; [presented by] Thirteen/WNET New York.
Publication
[London] : British Broadcasting Corporation ; New York, N.Y. : Thirteen/WNET New York, c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Eyre, Richard, 1943-
  • Muir, Jamie
  • Parsons, Roger
  • Miller, Andrea
  • Venza, Jac
  • WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
  • British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, producer.
Description
1 videocassette (VHS) (111 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
In this six-part series, Sir Richard Eyre, former director of the Royal National Theatre, explores the history of 20th century drama and its confluence with the theater of Ireland, America, and Germany. Archival footage of many of the century's most memorable productions is combined with excerpts from the interviews with the writers, actors, and directors who made them possible.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Documentaries and factual works.
  • Mini-series.
Note
  • Title from container. Credits on tape.
  • Documentary mini-series.
  • Parts 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 are available on NCOX 1737 and 1738 respectively.
  • Originally broadcast on the BBC.
  • Video includes promotional content.
  • Part 5, Between Brecht and Beckett: In this program, Richard Eyre examines the work of Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett and the impact they had on other playwrights and on the theater itself, in both Britian and America, particularly through the emergence of Off Off-Broadway theater in the 1960s. Performance footage of their major plays such as Brecht's Mother Courage and her children and Beckett's Waiting for Godot, along with excerpts from other dramatists' works are included. Includes brief interviews with contemporary playwrights and performers Harold Pinter, John McGrath, Peter Brook, David Hare, Tony Kushner, Peter Hall, William Gaskill, Jocelyn Gerbert, John McGrath, Tom Stoppard, August Wilson, Sam Shepard, Edward Albee, Alan Bennett, David Mamet, Edward Bond, Billie Whitelaw, and Caryl Churchill.
  • Part 6, The law of gravity: This episode focuses on the survival of live theater in the late 20th century, with references to various forms of traditional theater and the experimentation of the 1960s and '70s. Emphasis is on the success of such popular musicals as Les miserables, Phantom of the opera, and The Lion King, but also on the lasting influence of the more radical Antonin Artaud on contemporary directors and companies, especially the Living Theatre, Robert Lepage and Peter Brook. Features excerpts from interviews with directors Peter Brook, Julie Taymor, Deborah Warner, and Robert Lepage, and with such theater artists as Simon McBurney, Deborah Warner, Stephen Daldry, Steven Berkoff, Cameron Mackintosh, Harold Prince, Trevor Nunn, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mary Ryland, George C. Wolfe, Pinchon Baldinu, and Patrick Marber. Includes performance footage from such works as The street of the crocodiles, Elsinore, Needles and opium, Villa! Villa!, Miss Saigon, Les misérables, The phantom of the opera, The lion king, Marat/Sade, and Angels in America.
Event (note)
  • Premiered on Thirteen/WNET-TV New York, N.Y. on Sept. 9, 2001.
Contents
Part 5. Between Brecht and Beckett (55:00) -- Part 6. The law of gravity (56:00)
Call Number
NCOX 1739
OCLC
190957099
Title
Changing stages : Part 5, Between Brecht and Beckett. Part 6, The law of gravity [videorecording] / a BBC-Thirteen-WNET co-production ; written and presented by Richard Eyre ; executive producer, Andrea Miller ; executive producer, Jac Venza [for Thirteen/WNET] ; "Between Brecht and Beckett" produced and directed by Jamie Muir ; "The law of gravity" produced and directed by Roger Parsons ; [presented by] Thirteen/WNET New York.
Imprint
[London] : British Broadcasting Corporation ; New York, N.Y. : Thirteen/WNET New York, c2000.
Country of Producing Entity
Great Britain ; United States.
Performer
Narrator: Richard Eyre.
Event
Premiered on Thirteen/WNET-TV New York, N.Y. on Sept. 9, 2001.
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Added Author
Eyre, Richard, 1943-
Eyre, Richard, 1943- narrator.
Muir, Jamie, producer.
Muir, Jamie, director.
Parsons, Roger, producer.
Parsons, Roger, director.
Miller, Andrea, producer.
Venza, Jac, producer.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, producer.
Research Call Number
NCOX 1739
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