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Donahue.

Title: Donahue. Black women [videorecording] / Mutimedia program productions.
Publication: New York, [ca. 1978]

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Description

1 videodisc (DVD) (60 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Phil Donahue discusses Ntozake Shange's For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf with three cast members from the national touring company, currently performing in Chicago. The discussion with LaTanya Richardson, Beverly Anne and Paula Larke is conducted before an audience of African American women. Topics include the reaction to the work in Chicago, including the perception that it is "anti-male"; the problems as well as satisfactions of Black women in their relationships with Black men; the play's meaning and message, including the Black woman's quest to become more self-sufficient, self-aware and self-loving. Program includes a performance by each cast member and question and answer sessions with the audience. Tape ends abruptly.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

Donahue (Television program)

Alternative Title

Liberated black women. Screening; on spine: Donahue w/ cast of For colored girls . . . Chicago, Jan. 1978

Subjects

Genre/Form

Television.

Note

This video separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.
Includes blank spaces intended for commercials. Program begins ca. 2:00 min.
Show no. 01238.

Event (note)

Videotaped in Chicago, Illinois. First broadcast ca. January 1978.

Biography (note)

Ntozake Shange's For colored girls . . . is a group of 20 "chorepoems" on the power of Black women to survive in the face of adversity. The work which was developed into a theater piece for seven actors opened at the Public Theater/Anspacher Theater in June 1976, directed by Oz Scott. The show's success made producer Joseph Papp decide to move it to the Booth Theater on September 15 where it ran for almost two years.

Call Number

NCOX 5312

OCLC

NYPG05-F10736

Title

Donahue. Black women [videorecording] / Mutimedia program productions.

Imprint

New York, [ca. 1978]

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

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

Event

Videotaped in Chicago, Illinois. First broadcast ca. January 1978.

Biography

Ntozake Shange's For colored girls . . . is a group of 20 "chorepoems" on the power of Black women to survive in the face of adversity. The work which was developed into a theater piece for seven actors opened at the Public Theater/Anspacher Theater in June 1976, directed by Oz Scott. The show's success made producer Joseph Papp decide to move it to the Booth Theater on September 15 where it ran for almost two years.

Added Author

Donahue, Phil, host.

Richardson, LaTanya, 1949- interviewee.

Richardson, LaTanya, 1949- actor.

Anne, Beverly, interviewee.

Anne, Beverly, actor.

Larke, Paula, interviewee.

Larke, Paula, actor.

New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.

Added Title

Donahue (Television program)

Research Call Number

NCOX 5312

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