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Author
Language
English
Description
Judith Freeman Garey shows readers how to transform text from print to interaction, establishing a simple framework for how to read as an actor who builds characters' lives, a set designer who constructs context, and a director who generates action.
In the same way that theater artists engage in a rehearsal process to transform printed words into a world of people, space, sound, and action for the stage, readers can learn a modified version of this...
2) Richard II
Publisher
Illuminations Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (128 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Deborah Warner’s staging of RICHARD II with Fiona Shaw as the king stirred up a significant critical controversy when it was presented in 1995 at the National Theatre, and then later in Salzburg and Paris. Among those who recognised its originality and strengths was the critic Paul Taylor who praised the ‘gripping, lucidly felt production’ and Fiona Shaw’s ‘dazzlingly disconcerting… deliberately uncomfortable, compelling performance.’...
Publisher
Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (742 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Enjoy six Academy Award winners. Titles included Argo, Birdman, Green Book, The Shape of Water, Slumdog Millionaire and Spotlight.
"Argo": Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
"Birdman": A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing,...
5) Ball of fire
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Publisher
Roan Group Archival Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wise-cracking lead stripper spends her time rebuffing fellow performer Biff Brannigan until a stripper is found strangled by her own g-string. When a second victim is found, they team up to snag the murderer in classic whodunnit style.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Madelyn and Lucy meet by chance, they make a pact to fix their unhappy lives: they will only do what the other one says and ignore their own instincts. But Madelyn has a secret. She knows her husband is sleeping with Lucy, a much younger and beautiful woman. Madelyn's plan backfires when Lucy, an aspiring actress, orders her to play King Lear in a very amateur production with Lucy playing the fool.
10) Burlesque
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger than life voice causes a charismatic entrepreneur to make...
11) Barrymore
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A filmed play of Christopher Plummer in his Tony Award winning performance as iconic stage and screen idol John Barrymore. At the height of his remarkable career, John Barrymore was the most celebrated entertainer of his generation. The reigning king of both Broadway and Hollywood, his decline and fall from grace was the tragic result of a self-destructive spiral into vice and excess. And now, with his career in tatters, he makes one final attempt...
12) A double life
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Full screen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A great actor who has the ability to "become" his characters gets a little more than he bargained for when he takes on the role of Othello.
Publisher
PC Treasures, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In these six short films, see Shirley Temple as a child actor. Pardon my pups: Sonny wants a motorcycle for his birthday, and is disappointed when he learns that he is getting a dog instead. Dora's dunking doughnuts: A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial. Glad rags to riches: Diaperina heads a children-only cast of three-to-five year olds, performing in a broad burlesque as the star of...
15) Station eleven
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (507 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Post-apocalyptic story involving multiple timelines about a group of traveling performers who survived a devastating flu pandemic.
16) The salesman
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
The story of a couple whose relationship begins to turn sour during their performance of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1940
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Full screen version; special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman to work as a director in the Hollywood studio system of the '30s and early '40s, brings a subversive feminist sensibility to this juicily entertaining backstage melodrama. A behind-the-footlights look at friendship, jealousy, and ambition in the ruthless world of show business, Dance, Girl, Dance follows the intertwining fates of two chorus girls.
Publisher
Tree & Sky Media Arts
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"It's magic and mayhem captured through the lens as the kids, under the direction of the two professional actor/directors who come with the little red truck, audition, rehearse, mess up, have the occasional meltdown, overcome personal obstacles, learn teamwork, jump for joy, don costumes, and eventually grace the stage for a one-hour performance. But more than that, it's a laugh-out-loud and uplifting movie that's perfect for everyone."--Container....
19) Summer stock
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017], c1950
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Romance blooms during the summer in New England when Jane Falbury's sister shows up with a theatrical troupe and convinces her to let them stage a musical in the barn
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