Research Catalog

Title

Camera three. A colored girl : Ntozake Shange [videorecording] / [a production of] WGBH-TV Boston ; producer, Rebecca Eaton ; television director, John Pasquin ; theater director, Oz Scott ; executive director, Madison Lacy, Jr.

Publication

New York, c1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shange, Ntozake
• Shange, Ntozake
• Papp, Joseph
• Eaton, Rebecca, 1947-
• Pasquin, John
• Scott, Oz
• Lacy, Madison Davis
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), producer

Description

1 videodisc (DVD) (25 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Profile of poet and dramatist Ntozake Shange. Follows Shange over a three day period as she goes about her work and life in New York City, sometimes accompanied by [director Oz Scott?]. Includes interviews with Shange, her parents and with theatrical producer Joseph Papp; footage of a meeting between Papp, Shange and Scott; performance excerpts from Shange's works including, Spell #7 and footage of Shange giving a poetry reading at the Chelsea Encore Cabaret. Papp discusses meeting Shange for the first time in 1975 when she read from her work For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf and his impressions of her. Shange discusses her notion of "cultural arrogance" and how she responds to this artistically; her experiences with racism as a child; her work as a teacher; her working relationship with Papp; the pitfalls to success for African American writers and artists; and her intention to keep working for a long time.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.

Series Statement

• Camera three
• Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection

Uniform Title

Camera three (Television program)

Alternative Title

Camera three, A colored girl: Ntozake Shange; on Post-it: Includes restaged for TV segments from Spell #7

Subjects

• Shange, Ntozake > Friends and associates
• African American theater > New York (State) > New York
• Theater > New York (State) > New York
• Interviews
• Shange, Ntozake > Interviews
• African American poets
• African American dramatists
• Television
• New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater
• Papp, Joseph > Interviews
• Dramatists > Interviews
• Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
• Shange, Ntozake > Spell #7
• Shange, Ntozake > For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
• Theatrical productions > New York (State) > New York > 1971-1980

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Television.

Note

• This video separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.
• Sound quality is below average.
• For the complete theatrical production of Spell #7 see NCOV 115.

Event (note)

• First broadcast on November 11, 1979.

Call Number

NCOX 5058

OCLC

NYPG05-F10782

Title

Camera three. A colored girl : Ntozake Shange [videorecording] / [a production of] WGBH-TV Boston ; producer, Rebecca Eaton ; television director, John Pasquin ; theater director, Oz Scott ; executive director, Madison Lacy, Jr.

Imprint

New York, c1979.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Camera three

Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection

Event

First broadcast on November 11, 1979.

Added Author

Shange, Ntozake, interviewee.

Shange, Ntozake. Spell #7.

Papp, Joseph, interviewee.

Eaton, Rebecca, 1947- producer.

Pasquin, John, director.

Scott, Oz, director.

Lacy, Madison Davis, director.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), producer.

Added Title

Camera three (Television program)

Research Call Number

NCOX 5058