Research Catalog

Title

A playwright's evening, Charles Mee & Tony Kushner [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Publication

2002.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hopper, Tim
• Ireland, Marin
• Maleczech, Ruth
• Messina, Chris
• Whitlock, Isiah, Jr.
• Wolf, Rita
• Kushner, Tony
• Mee, Charles L.
• Nicola, James C.
• Amicarella, Toni.
• Cronson, Mary Sharp.
• New York Theatre Workshop (New York, N.Y.)
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (82 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This program features a panel discussion of playwrights and works presented by New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), interspersed with readings from the plays of Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, and Charles L. Mee. The panelists, including NYTW artistic director Nicola as well as Kushner and Mee, discuss the history of the company and its mission of presenting plays that are experimental in form and that synthesize the personal, psychological, historical, and political. The playwrights talk about their experiences working with the company, and describe the genesis of the plays being excerpted.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 197

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Alternative Title

A playwright's evening with the New York Theatre Workshop

Subject

• Churchill, Caryl
• Kushner, Tony
• Mee, Charles L
• New York Theatre Workshop (New York, N.Y.)
• Playwriting
• Theater > Political aspects

Genre/Form

• Video.
• Readings.

Credits (note)

• Play excerpts written by Caryl Churchill (Far away, Lighting shining in Buckinghamshire, and Mad forest) ; Tony Kushner (Homebody/Kabul, The illusion, and Slavs!) ; and Charles L. Mee (First love, An investigation into the murder in El Salvador, and Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited).

Event (note)

• Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Nov. 3 and 4, 2002. (Viewer copy is Nov. 3, 2002.)

Funding (note)

• With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1200

OCLC

85845687

Title

A playwright's evening, Charles Mee & Tony Kushner [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

2002.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 197

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Credits

Play excerpts written by Caryl Churchill (Far away, Lighting shining in Buckinghamshire, and Mad forest) ; Tony Kushner (Homebody/Kabul, The illusion, and Slavs!) ; and Charles L. Mee (First love, An investigation into the murder in El Salvador, and Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited).

Performer

Play excerpts read by Tim Hopper, Marin Ireland, Ruth Maleczech, Chris Messina, Isiah Whitlock, and Rita Wolf. Panelists: Tony Kushner, Charles L. Mee, and James C. Nicola. Moderator: Toni Amicarella.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Nov. 3 and 4, 2002. (Viewer copy is Nov. 3, 2002.)

Funding

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Added Author

Hopper, Tim, actor.

Ireland, Marin, actor.

Maleczech, Ruth, actor.

Messina, Chris, actor.

Whitlock, Isiah, Jr., actor.

Wolf, Rita, actor.

Kushner, Tony, interviewee.

Mee, Charles L., interviewee.

Nicola, James C., interviewee.

Amicarella, Toni. Moderator

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

New York Theatre Workshop (New York, N.Y.)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1200