Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Nottage, Lynn
2. Ekulona, Saidah Arrika
3. Vincentelli, Elisabeth
4. Riedel, Michael (Theater critic)
5. Haskins, Susan
6. Walker, Adam
7. Theater Talk Productions, Inc.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (27 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. In the first segment, playwright Lynn Nottage and actor Saidah Arrika Ekulona discuss Nottage's drama Ruined, which concerns the horrific conditions facing women in Africa's war-torn Congo. Nottage outlines the preliminary research she conducted in Uganda prior to writing the play. Ekulona speaks of her character Mama Nadi, and considers the comparisons some critics have made between Mama Nadi and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage.
2. In the second segment, arts critic Elisabeth Vincentelli examines some of the challenges facing journalists such as herself who write for traditional newspapers and magazines in the age of the Internet. She also discusses theater audiences in New York, and recent revivals of Guys and dolls and Blithe spirit.

Series statement

1. Theater talk

Subject

1. Coward, Noël, 1899-1973 > Blithe spirit
2. Television
3. Ekulona, Saidah Arrika > Interviews
4. Actresses > Interviews
5. Loesser, Frank, 1910-1969 > Guys and dolls
6. Theater > New York (State) > New York
7. Nottage, Lynn > Interviews
8. Talk shows
9. Nottage, Lynn > Ruined
10. Interviews
11. Theater critics > Interviews
12. Dramatists > Interviews
13. Vincentelli, Elisabeth > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Talk shows.
3. Television.

Call number

1. NCOX 2482

Note

1. Credits at end of tape.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at the Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y., March 13, 2009.

Title

1. Theater talk. Ruined, plus critic Elisabeth Vincentelli [videorecording] / [produced by] Susan Haskins, Theater Talk Productions, Inc. ; director, Adam Walker.

Imprint

1. New York, c2009.

Series

1. Theater talk

Cast

1. Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at the Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y., March 13, 2009.

Local note

1. Gift of Susan Haskins.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Nottage, Lynn, interviewee.
2. Ekulona, Saidah Arrika, interviewee.
3. Vincentelli, Elisabeth, interviewee.
4. Riedel, Michael (Theater critic), interviewer.
5. Haskins, Susan, interviewer.
6. Haskins, Susan, producer.
7. Theater Talk Productions, Inc.
8. Walker, Adam, director.
9. Haskins, Susan, donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2482