Creative Arts Television (Firm)
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In this program, choreographer-dancer Yuriko performs her own work and demonstrates a dance in the process of being created. Featuring dancers Buzz Miller, James Gardner, Bertram Ross, Ethel Winter; pianist Eugene Lester and singer Anita Ellis, the program includes Yuriko's The Fool's Tale and a scene from Yuriko's The Ghost derived from kabuki theater.
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Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud perform poetry, pantomimes, scenes from a play, and discuss with James Macandrew the impact of theater. Excerpts include poetry from Jean de La Fontaine, Jacques Prévert, and Paul Eluard. Also included is a scene from The Misanthrope on this episode of Camera Three.
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An exploration of the goals and techniques of Joseph Papp's famous enterprise in New York City, The Public Theater, this program includes interviews with playwrights David Freeman, John Guare, and Myrna Lamb. It presents excerpts of their plays as finished productions or works in progress. The plays highlighted are David Freeman's Jessie and the Bandit Queen, John Guare's Rich and Famous, Myrna Lamb's Apple Pie. Papp and the writers discuss such issues...
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Camera Three presents two dramatizations of literature at the expense of scientific thought. The first scene combines excerpts from the novellas Nightmare Abbey, Gryll Grange, Melincourt, and Crochet Castle. In Inflexible Logic, six apes are encouraged to write all the books in the British Museum to test the law of probability.
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On this episode of Camera Three, playwright Eric Bentley discusses his recent adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man (Mann ist Mann). Olympia Dukakis, Clifford James, and James perform excerpts of the production, including The Song of Recruitment of the 20th Century, A Man's a Man, and The Song of the Ganges River.
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On this episode of Camera Three, Padraic Colum, Frank O'Connor, and Tom Clancy examine Irish Literature from the 19th and 20th Century. Topics include William Butler Yeats, The Abbey Theater, John Millington Synge, James Joyce, Sean O'Casey, and contemporary trends in Irish plays and poetry.
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On this episode of Camera Three, Raquel Jodorowsky, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Estrella Artall, and members of the Theater of Latin America perform excerpts from The Fair of Opinion currently running in New York City. Augusto Boal, the artistic director, speaks on the unifying theme of the evening's performances.
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Exploration of the artistic and philanthropic passions of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, the "Uranium King," at the opening of his museum, The Hirshhorn Museum, a gift to the nation in Washington, D.C. Includes scenes of the gala inaugural party and the installation of art work, including the helicoptering in of a massive stone piece. With comments from celebrity artists invited to the opening. Interview and commentary by arts critic and lecturer Rosamond Bernier,...
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An experimental marriage of dance and video with the celebrated choreographer-dancer Merce Cunningham and company. Merce says they are not concerts but "events." His commentary links the various aspects of these performances. With Merce Cunningham, Ellen Cornfield, Meg Harper, Susana Hayman-Chaffey, Cathy Kerr, Chris Komar, Robert Kovich, Brynar Mehl, Charles Moulton, Julie Roess-Smith, Valda Setterfield, (Dancers of the Cunningham Dance Co.)
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On this episode of Camera Three, Jose Quintero, Louis Kronenberger, and Thornton Wilder discuss the benefits and drawbacks of representational theater and arena staging. Watch Quintero direct actors in a rehearsal of Plays for Bleeker Street for Circle in the Square Theatre.
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Jerry Orbach, Nancy Andrews, Hal Buckley, Clifford David, and Micki Grant perform songs from the musical. Howard Da Silva, who performed the role of Larry Foreman in the world premiere, discusses directing the revival on this episode of Camera Three. The Cradle Will Rock was originally produced by Orson Welles for the Federal Theater Project.