Research Catalog

Title

Playwriting in the Schools [videorecording] : Public Theater / [produced for the New York Shakespeare Festival.]

Publication

New York, 1987.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Papp, Joseph
• New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, producer.

Description

6 videocassettes (Betacam) (105 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Footage of students' performances of exercises and skits as part of the New York Shakespeare Festival's Playwriting in the Schools program.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Series Statement

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

Subject

• New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. Playwriting in the Schools
• Amateur theater
• Children's plays
• Drama in education

Genre/Form

• Drama.
• Video.

Note

• No credits on tape. Title derived from labels on containers.
• These videos separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.
• Videocassette one (ca. 19 min.): Playwriting in the schools grammar school production by All Saints School eighth grade class and P.S. 155, honoring teachers and administrators at their schools. Each teacher is nominated with short description of achievements at their school. Students perfom skits they have written. Tape ends abruptly.
• Videocassette two (ca. 16 min.): This is a continuation of the previous tape. Students perform short skits they have written. Skits include dealing with emotions, growing up, family life, and school.
• Videocassette three (ca. 18 min.): Class peforms aerobic exercise and dance with teacher. Students perform skit about home life, school, life pressures.
• Videocassette four (ca. 20 min.): Skit: If I had a million dollars. The students were asked to write about how it would feel to have money. . .or not. Students perform response.
• Videocassette five (ca. 17): Monologue on how the students feel about music.
• Videocassette six (ca. 15 min.): Students perform various skits; reverse roles as student and teacher.

Access (note)

• Preservation pending. Appointment and tape transfer required before viewing.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, New York, N.Y. on June 22, 1987.

Language (note)

• Playwriting in the Schools (PITS) was an educational program established in 1985 under the sponsorship of producer/director Joseph Papp, the New York Shakespeare Festival and the New York City Board of Education. Conducted in collaboration with classroom teachers, the PITS program incorporated the study of playwriting taught by playwrights and drama in an effort to improve students' writing skills, and to develop their interest in acting, writing and directing for the theater.

Call Number

NCOV 5040

OCLC

NYPG06-F285

Title

Playwriting in the Schools [videorecording] : Public Theater / [produced for the New York Shakespeare Festival.]

Imprint

New York, 1987.

Series

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

Access

Preservation pending. Appointment and tape transfer required before viewing.

Event

Videotaped at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, New York, N.Y. on June 22, 1987.

Language

Playwriting in the Schools (PITS) was an educational program established in 1985 under the sponsorship of producer/director Joseph Papp, the New York Shakespeare Festival and the New York City Board of Education. Conducted in collaboration with classroom teachers, the PITS program incorporated the study of playwriting taught by playwrights and drama in an effort to improve students' writing skills, and to develop their interest in acting, writing and directing for the theater.

Local Note

Duplicate tapes available in ReCAP. See summary of item records in staff CATNYP.

Added Author

Papp, Joseph, producer.

New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, producer.

Research Call Number

NCOV 5040