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[Interview with Joseph Chaikin]
- Title
- [Interview with Joseph Chaikin] [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Publication
- New York, c1998.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (56 min.) sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)
- Summary
- In a discussion moderated by his sister Shami Chaikin, director and playwright Joseph Chaikin reviews his life and career with his friends and collaborators Mira Rafalowicz and Anders Cato. Mr. Chaikin's work with the Open Theater, which he co-founded, is explored, including such performance pieces as Jean-Claude van Itallie's The serpent and Susan Yankowitz's Terminal. The theatrical history of Mr. Chaikin's adaptation of S. An-Ski's The dybbuk is examined, as are his collaborations with Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett, and Arthur Miller. Ms. Chaikin contributes information about the near-fatal stroke Mr. Chaikin suffered in 1984, which caused him to become aphasic, and Mr. Cato, who met and began working with Mr. Chaikin after the stroke, describes the impact of Mr. Chaikin's disability on his directorial technique.
- Alternative Title
- Joseph Chaikin with Mira Rafalowics [sic] and Anders Cato interviewed by Shami Chaikin
- Subjects
- Van Itallie, Jean Claude, 1936-2021 > Serpent
- Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017 > Friends and associates
- An-Ski, S., 1863-1920 > Dibeḳ
- Chaikin, Joseph, 1935-2003 > Friends and associates
- Yankowitz, Susan > Terminal
- Chaikin, Joseph, 1935-2003 > Interviews
- Rafalowics, Mira
- Chaikin, Shami
- Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
- Cato, Anders
- Open Theater
- Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
- Aphasic persons > Interviews
- Performer (note)
- Participants: Joseph Chaikin, Mira Rafalowicz, and Anders Cato, with Shami Chaikin, moderator.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., Feb. 19, 1998.
- Funding (note)
- Recorded with the financial assistance of Actors' Equity Foundation.
- Call Number
- NCOW 206
- OCLC
- NYPG99-F980
- Title
- [Interview with Joseph Chaikin] [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Imprint
- New York, c1998.
- Performer
- Participants: Joseph Chaikin, Mira Rafalowicz, and Anders Cato, with Shami Chaikin, moderator.
- Event
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., Feb. 19, 1998.
- Funding
- Recorded with the financial assistance of Actors' Equity Foundation.
- Added Author
- Chaikin, Joseph, 1935-2003, interviewee.Rafalowicz, Mira, participant.Cato, Anders, participant.Chaikin, Shami, moderator.Corwin, Betty L.Character Generators/Video.Actors' Equity Foundation.New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
- Research Call Number
- NCOW 206