Creative Arts Television: Filmed and videotaped arts footage from 1950 to date.
A history of New York City's famous and enduring theater, The Circle in the Square (100 plays in its first 25 years) through interview and performance. A film in three parts: One: Theater critic Margaret Croyden interviews founder Ted Mann, and actors Dustin Hoffman and George C. Scott who got their start there. Comments by Hoffman regarding the play "Eh" and the firing of two directors in order to keep him as an actor, being cast for the film "The Graduate", his Jewishness, the lack of reality in Westerns and John Wayne, and how he likes the roles of "rejects." Performance segment : Scott in monologue from Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." Scott comments re Willie Loman, Scott's lack of acting training, "I can hear a shopping bag rustle in the 17th row", wants to "stop being a star, because I have lost my ability to observe other people", loves acting, but can't act as well now as he once did, would like to have been a political economist, doesn't make friends easily, marriages a failure. Two... Colleen Dewhurst and James Earl Jones. Dewhurst describes Circle in the Square as a "womb…the actors were all beginning… last bastion of free speech… like being in mother's arms." She discusses the vulnerability of the so-called "tough" women she plays. "Theater is day to day". James Earl Jones talks of theater as "a high form of communication reveals truth." Jones had a stutter from age 8 to 14. "Line of truth revealed through character, like preacher who has given a good sermon…" Jones was Southern Methodist who hated the mournfulness of spirituals and was frightened by congregation response. Performance excerpt: Jones in "Trumpets of the Lord" (Vinnette Carroll's adaptation of play by James Weldon Johnson.) Performance: scene from Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Elektra" with Dewhurst and Stephen McHattie. Three: performance excerpt from Ibsen's "Lady from the Sea" with Vanessa Redgrave and Pat Hingle. 1977. |
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| Title: The Circle in the Square theater, history and performances, with founders and actors | |
Reference: 770320 |
Categories: "THEATER DISCUSSION &INTERVIEW, ACTORS, MODERN THEATER, DIRECTORS, ACTING TECHNIQUES |
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