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Details

Additional authors

1. Papp, Joseph
2. Wilson, August
3. New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. Playwriting in the Schools.

Description

1. 2 videocassettes (VHS) (110 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. A variety show consisting of monologues and streams of consciousness works, musical numbers and workshop writings. The works are written and performed by New York City public school students, participants in the New York Shakespeare Festival's Playwriting in the Schools (PITS) program. Includes remarks by PITS director, playwright August Wilson.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Series statement

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

Subject

1. Drama
2. Performing arts and children
3. Performing arts > Study and teaching (secondary) > New York (State) > New York
4. Musical revues & comedies > New York (State) > New York > 1981-1990
5. Musicals
6. Drama in education
7. Children's plays
8. Theater and youth
9. Amateur theater

Genre/Form

1. Drama.
2. Musicals.

Call number

1. NCOV 5004

Note

1. No credits on tape. Credit information from program.
2. Program is in two parts. Cassette 1 (part one): 45 min. Cassette 2 (part two): 65 min.
3. Cassette 2 begins and ends abruptly.
4. Copy of the program is available.
5. This video separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.

Access (note)

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

Performer (note)

1. Performed by New York City public school students.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped at the Public Theater/Newman Theater on June 22, 1987.

Biography (note)

1. 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.

Title

1. On time to reign with my soul! : plays, monologues, dreams and wishes. [videorecording] / Joseph Papp presents the 1987 Playwriting in the Schools [presentation] ; written by the Students of Community School Districts One and Five, Frederick Douglass Intermediate School 10, Benjamin Banneker Academy, Adam Clayton Powell Junior High School and Junior High School 22.

Imprint

1. New York, 1987.

Series

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

Access

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

Performer

1. Performed by New York City public school students.

Event

1. Videotaped at the Public Theater/Newman Theater on June 22, 1987.

Biography

1. 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.

Added author

1. Papp, Joseph, producer.
2. Wilson, August, speaker.
3. New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. Playwriting in the Schools.

Research call number

1. NCOV 5004