Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Fornés, María Irene
2. Richards, Lloyd, 1919-2006
3. Wilson, Edwin, 1927-
4. City University of New York.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (112 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Four separate interviews: two with Lloyd Richards and two with Maria Irene Fornes.
2. Lloyd Richards talks about his life at Wayne State Univerity in Detroit where he became interested in radio work, and later, acting and directing in New York, his first big break as the director of A raisin in the sun, the Yale University School of Drama's training approach stressing all aspects of theater, meeting August Wilson and directing his play Ma Rainey's black bottom.
3. Maria Irene Fornes discusses how, with no training in constructing a play, she fell into playwrighting, her work co-founding of the New York Theatre Strategy which brought attention to playwrights by producing their plays Off and Off Off Broadway, the pain and brutality in her own plays reflecting the state of the world, her women characters, and her belief that playwrights should direct their own work.

Series statement

1. CUNY Spotlight

Subject

1. Women in literature
2. New York Theatre Strategy
3. Wilson, August > Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
4. Yale School of Drama
5. Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
6. Interviews
7. Theater > United States > Production and direction
8. Women dramatists > Interviews
9. Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 > Raisin in the sun
10. Dramatists > Interviews
11. Wayne State University
12. Richards, Lloyd, 1919-2006 > Interviews
13. Fornes, Maria Irene > Interviews
14. Acting > Study and teaching (Higher)
15. Fornes, Maria Irene > Sources

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOW 91

Note

1. Part of the series, CUNY Spotlight, broadcast on CUNY-TV, sponsored by the City University of New York.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y., 1990.

Title

1. [Interviews with Lloyd Richards and Maria Irene Fornes] [videorecording] / City University Television, The Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (CASTA) [presents]

Imprint

1. New York, 1990.

Series

1. CUNY Spotlight

Performer

1. Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.

Event

1. Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y., 1990.

Local subject

1. New York Theatre Strategy.

Added author

1. Fornés, María Irene, interviewee.
2. Richards, Lloyd, 1919-2006, interviewee.
3. Wilson, Edwin, 1927- interviewer.
4. City University of New York.

Research call number

1. NCOW 91