Six characters in search of an author / by Luigi Pirandello ; translated by Frederick May ; co-production of Miami-Dade Community College and the British Broadcasting Corporation/British Open University.
Publisher:
Insight Media,
Copyright Date:
1978
Description:
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Reproduction Info:
Digital copy. Iowa City : University of Iowa Marketing and Media Production for the University of Iowa Libraries, 2012. VHS video tape transferred to industry standard DVCAM format, (4:3 standard definition) with Sony DSR-1800 digital videocassette recorder and simultaneously to DVD format with Panasonic DMR-ES25 DVD recorder via Y/C distribution system from a variety of VHS source decks.
6 characters in search of an author. Pirandello's six characters in search of an author. Pirandello's six charters in search of an author. Six charters in search of an author.
Notes:
"DPS-14"--Container. Title on container: Pirandello's "Six charters [sic] in search of an author." Edited version, concentrating on the middle portion of the play. Nigel Stock, Mary Wimbush, Charles Gray, Lisa Harrow. William Hindman.
Summary:
Ossie Davis, actor and playwright, discusses dramatic character's lives free of their creator. A short discussion of a marionette theatre in Salzburg and a discussion of convention and style precedes scenes from Pirandello's work in which six characters from a play assume lives of their own, disrupting the rehearsal of another play.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)824172273
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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