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Sticks and bones : Joseph Papp interview with David Rabe, Robert O. Muller and Thomas A. Bird (rough cut and unedited footage )

Title
Sticks and bones : Joseph Papp interview with David Rabe, Robert O. Muller and Thomas A. Bird (rough cut and unedited footage ) [videorecording]
Publication
New York, [1982]

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Additional Authors
  • Papp, Joseph
  • Rabe, David
  • Bird, Tom, 1946-
  • Muller, Robert O
  • New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.
Description
2 videodiscs (DVD) (60 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Introduction and interviews by theatrical producer Joseph Papp with playwright David Rabe, Robert O. Muller, Executive Director of Vietnam Veterans of America, and Thomas A. Bird, artistic director of the Vietnam Veterans Ensemble Theater Company. These segments accompanied the broadcast on cable television of Rabe's play Sticks and bones, about a Vietnam veteran's return from war. Papp discusses the theatrical and broadcast history of Sticks and bones. Rabe's discusses his feelings as a veteran and his reasons for writing the play; Muller and Bird speak about their recent trip to Hanoi in which they met with government officials to discuss their concerns on issues such as MIAs and Agent Orange; Muller discusses the United States' lack of normalized relations with Vietnam; America's denial of the war and its need to come to terms with it; the attitude toward Vietnam veterans in the U.S.; the lingering problems facing Vietnam veterans.
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
Alternative Title
  • Sticks and bones wraparound rough cut
  • ABC video enterprises, "Sticks and bones," 46:00, drop frame
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Video.
  • Television.
Note
  • These videos separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.
  • Videodisc one: 15 min. Videodisc two: 45 min.
  • Videodisc one contains the rough edit of the interview. Videodic two contains the unedited footage.
Event (note)
  • Broadcast on Cable television, ARTS Channel, May 4, 1982.
Biography (note)
  • In July 1972 theatrical producer Joseph Papp received an $8 million contract to produce thirteen Shakespearean, as well as contemporary, plays for the CBS television network over a four-year period. The first production Much ado about nothing, directed by A.J. Antoon, adapted from the Festival's then-current Broadway production, was broadcast February 2, 1973. The second production, David Rabe's play Sticks and bones, aired on August 17, 1973. The broadcast had been postponed for several months over the network's concerns over viewers' sensitivity to the play's subject: the callous rejection by his own family of a Vietnam veteran returning blinded from war.--from Joe Papp: an American life by Helen Epstein.
Call Number
NCOX 5422
OCLC
NYPG06-F357
Title
Sticks and bones : Joseph Papp interview with David Rabe, Robert O. Muller and Thomas A. Bird (rough cut and unedited footage ) [videorecording]
Imprint
New York, [1982]
Country of Producing Entity
United States
Series
Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection
Event
Broadcast on Cable television, ARTS Channel, May 4, 1982.
Biography
In July 1972 theatrical producer Joseph Papp received an $8 million contract to produce thirteen Shakespearean, as well as contemporary, plays for the CBS television network over a four-year period. The first production Much ado about nothing, directed by A.J. Antoon, adapted from the Festival's then-current Broadway production, was broadcast February 2, 1973. The second production, David Rabe's play Sticks and bones, aired on August 17, 1973. The broadcast had been postponed for several months over the network's concerns over viewers' sensitivity to the play's subject: the callous rejection by his own family of a Vietnam veteran returning blinded from war.--from Joe Papp: an American life by Helen Epstein.
Added Author
Papp, Joseph, interviewer.
Rabe, David, interviewee.
Bird, Tom, 1946- interviewee.
Muller, Robert O, interviewee.
New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.
Research Call Number
NCOX 5422
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