Research Catalog

Title

Oral history interview with Linda Hunt, 1987-07-30 [sound recording].

Author

Hunt, Linda, 1945-

Publication

1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

Turan, Kenneth.

Description

1 sound cassette : analog.

Summary

Linda Hunt, an American film, stage and television actress, talks about her theatrical career on the New York stage. She shares her memories about Joseph Papp and her experience working with him on classical and modern productions such as Shakespeare's Hamlet (Player Queen), Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn (Aunt Dan) and Top girls by Caryl Churchill (Pope Joan and Louise) during the New York Shakespeare Festival in the 1970's-1980's. Being just 4 feet 9 inches tall she also speaks about Papp's willingness to hire minorities and handicapped people for all kinds of theater positions including actors and actresses (very revolutionary approach in those days) for New York Shakespeare Festival productions.

Alternative Title

• Free for all: Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest story ever told.
• Joseph Papp Oral History interviews.

Subject

• Hunt, Linda, 1945- > Interviews
• Parsons, Estelle > Friends and associates
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Shawn, Wallace
• Churchill, Caryl
• New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater
• Public Theater (New York, N.Y.)
• Actresses > United States > Interviews
• Theatrical producers and directors > United States > Interviews
• Theater > Production and direction > History > United States > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Oral histories.
• Interviews.
• Sound recordings.

Note

• Interview by Kenneth Turan, originally recorded for the book "Free for all: Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest story ever told" which was published in 2009.
• A track ID has been inserted every five minutes within this interview for reference purposes.

With (note)

• Part 1 of the interview is on CD with part 11 of an Oral history interview with Merle Debuskey; part 2 of the interview is on CD with part 3 of an Oral history interview with Wilford Leach.
• Part 1 of the interview is on original cassette with part 11 of an Oral history interview with Merle Debuskey (side A); and part 2 is on the same cassette with part 3 of an Oral history interview with Wilford Leach (side B).

Access (note)

• Access to original items restricted.

Event (note)

• Recorded [in New York?], July 30, 1987.

Additional Formats (note)

• Service compact discs (2 sound discs : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in.) begins on *LDC 51644, tracks 2-10, and concludes on *LDC 51645, tracks 1-5.

Call Number

*LDC 51644, tracks 2-10

OCLC

778804427

Author

Hunt, Linda, 1945- interviewee.

Title

Oral history interview with Linda Hunt, 1987-07-30 [sound recording].

Imprint

1987.

Event

Recorded [in New York?], July 30, 1987.

Access

Access to original items restricted.

Additional Formats

Service compact discs (2 sound discs : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in.) begins on *LDC 51644, tracks 2-10, and concludes on *LDC 51645, tracks 1-5.

With:

Part 1 of the interview is on CD with part 11 of an Oral history interview with Merle Debuskey; part 2 of the interview is on CD with part 3 of an Oral history interview with Wilford Leach.

Part 1 of the interview is on original cassette with part 11 of an Oral history interview with Merle Debuskey (side A); and part 2 is on the same cassette with part 3 of an Oral history interview with Wilford Leach (side B).

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Added Author

Turan, Kenneth. Interviewer

Papp, Gail Merrifield. Donor

Added Title

Free for all: Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest story ever told.

Joseph Papp Oral History interviews.

Research Call Number

*LDC 51644, tracks 2-10

*LDC 51645, disc 3, tracks 1-5

*LTC-A 762