Interview with Alan Schneider
Discussing Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and the Beckett Project with director Alan Schneider.
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Discussing Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and the Beckett Project with director Alan Schneider.
Through an interpreter, Madame Ida Kaminska discusses her role in the film "The Shop on Main Street." Both her mother and father were actors, too. Madame Kaminska explains she comes from a family of actors from 100 years ago.
Power, the misuse of power and the hollowness of one's heart and soul are the main themes covered by Helene Rosenberg. In Shakespeare's plays, the higher one rises in power, mortality can not be escaped and he will fall into the depths of hell. Justice, law and order, one's own being versus having (things) are also discussed.
Garson Kanin discusses his book "Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons, Moviemakers, Frauds, Hopefuls, Great Lovers", published in 1967.
Every play is political and art isn’t easy, according to Edward Albee. People need to realize that going to the theatre is an arena of engagement rather than one of escapism, says Albee. Due to people’s lack of knowledge and self-awareness, we in society, we deserve everything bad that we get, are also part of Albee’s views.
"George Bernard Shaw: My Astonishing Life" is a one-man show starring Donal Donnelly. As Donnelly said there wasn't enough time during the play to portray all parts of Shaw's history and experiences. Shaw was against all war, explained Donelly, because not only of the lives lost but no one knew what great doctors, or lawyers, or writers could have been, had those men not lost their lives. There are also two excerpts from a BBC recording in 1937 of George Bernard Shaw.
Discussing the play "Short eyes" with the dramatist Miguel Pinero.
A. L. Rowse relates Shakespeare to modern day sensibilities, reads sonnets, and discusses Elizabethan cultural norms. Studs plays “Heigh Ho, the Wind and the Rain (Twelfth Night)" - Alfred Deller and Desmond Dupré, “Oh Mistress Mine” - Alfred Deller, and “Alas, My Love You Do Me Wrong/Greensleeves” - Alfred Deller.