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The Shakespeare sessions
- Title
- The Shakespeare sessions [videorecording] / The Denver Center Media and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts presents a Storyville Films production ; a film by Oren Jacoby.
- Publication
- [United States] : Working Arts Library, c2003.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Restricted use | NCOX 2339 | Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT |
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (DVD) (60 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Royal Shakespeare Company directors John Barton and Sir Peter Hall travel to America to conduct workshops with the cast of the 1989 Broadway production of The merchant of Venice. Topics covered: creating a world with words; the clues are in the text; playing the story; Shakespeare's advice to the actor; changing gears from prose to verse; the questions reveal the character; handling emotion; setting the word against the word; and connecting with the audience. The actors discuss their experiences working with John Barton.
- Alternative Title
- Shakespeare sessions with John Barton
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Documentaries and factual works.
- Note
- Originally produced in 2002.
- Credits (note)
- Cinematographers, Slawomir Grünberg, Michael Chin, Tom Hurwitz ; editor, Nancy Baker ; music, Brian Keane.
- Call Number
- NCOX 2339
- OCLC
- 57467942
- Title
- The Shakespeare sessions [videorecording] / The Denver Center Media and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts presents a Storyville Films production ; a film by Oren Jacoby.
- Imprint
- [United States] : Working Arts Library, c2003.
- Performer
- Presenters: John Barton, Sir Peter Hall. Commentators and workshop participants: Kevin Kline, Dustin Hoffman, David Hyde Pierce, Cynthia Nixon, Liev Schreiber, Charles S. Dutton, Harriet Walter, Patrick Stewart.
- Credits
- Cinematographers, Slawomir Grünberg, Michael Chin, Tom Hurwitz ; editor, Nancy Baker ; music, Brian Keane.
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- Added Author
- Jacoby, Oren, film director.Barton, John, 1928-2018, host.Hall, Peter, 1930-2017, host.Kline, Kevin, actor.Hoffman, Dustin, 1937- actor.Nixon, Cynthia, actor.Schreiber, Liev, actor.Dutton, Charles S, actor.Walter, Harriet, actor.Stewart, Patrick, 1940- actor.Denver Center Media.Denver Center for the Performing Arts.Storyville Films.Working Arts Library (Firm)
- Research Call Number
- NCOX 2339