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Lili P. Segal Memorial Theater Collection Title List

  • Agamemnon: a tragedy by Aeschylus / directors Peter Meineck and Graham Mitchell. Part 1 of the Oresteia trilogy by Aeschylus. Call Number: PA 3827 .A8 L52 1992 (VHS)
  • Akropolis / director James MacTaggart. Presents a synthesis of the past and the present by dramatizing biblical and Homeric tales in a contemporary setting. Call Number: PG 7185 .W8 A792 1988 (VHS)
  • Alice at the Palace / director Emile Ardolino. An entertaining and shrewdly conceived retelling of the Carroll classics with all of the beloved characters given a unique twist by the witty and charming performances of an accomplished theatrical ensemble. Call Number: None. Ask at Ekstrom Library Media service desk for DVD.
  • Aristophanes' Lysistrata / director Georgos Zervoulakos. The Athenian women, no longer able to endure the hardship of the Peloponnsian War, wage a "sex strike" to force the men to stop fighting. Call Number: PA 3875 .L8 1987 (VHS)
  • Aristophanes: the gods are laughing / director Coky Giedroyc. This pseudo-biography juxtaposes elements of Aristophanic plays with the activities of contemporaneous people to show how Aristophanes became the father of political satire and why his theatrical innovations are still staples of the contemporary theatre. Call Number: PA 3879 .A75 1996 (VHS)
  • Biloxi Blues. Eugene, a raw recruit from Brooklyn, is sent to boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, where he expects the army to be dolls, doughnuts, and USO dances. Instead, he encounters a tough drill sergeant and a platoon of often hostile recruits. Call Number: None. Ask at Ekstrom Library Media service desk for DVD.
  • The birth of modern theatre: Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in perspective. Presents a short background of the times in which Chekhov lived. Provides charater analyses and dramatic techniques used by Chekhov. Presents act 3 of Uncle Vanya. The play depicts the lives of a group on the estate of a retired professor, a pompous fellow who has returned, with his young second wife, to write his masterpiece. His assumption of superiority becomes increasingly hard to endure. Call Number: PG 3456 .D5 G37 1988 (VHS)
  • Brighton Beach Memoirs. Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome is trying to uncover life's mysteries in this adaptation of a Broadway hit about growing up in Brooklyn during the late 1930's. Call Number: None. Ask at Ekstrom Library Media service desk for DVD.
  • Broadway!: a musical history / director William Hammerstein. Describes the history of the Broadway musical since the late 19th century. Includes pictures and interviews of performers active in the Broadway scene. Call Number: ML 1711 .B76 1989 (VHS) (5 tapes)
  • Butley / director Harold Pinter. Butley, a professor at a London University, finds out that his wife wants a divorce, his boyfriend is leaving him and his untalented colleague is getting a book published all in one day. Call Number: PR 6057 .R33 B82 2003 (VHS)
  • Carmen Jones / director Otto Preminger. Joe, a military policeman about to make officer, is infatuated with the flirtatious and sexy Carmen Jones. Their ill-fated romance comes to a grisly end by the conclusion of the drama but not before their liaison has wreaked havoc with their lives and all who cross their paths. Call Number: PN 1995.9 .M86 O83 1994 (VHS)
  • Classical comedy: Aristophanes, Women in power (Ecclesiazusae) ; Plautus, The Braggart soldier (Miles gloriosus) / director Philip Hedley. The two plays demonstrate the different concepts of "funny" and the different functions of comedy in democratic Greece and autocratic Rome. Call Number: PA 3877 .E313 1988 (VHS)
  • The Comedy of manners: Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière: The misanthrope / director Harold Mantell. Presents an abridged performance of Molière's comedy, The misanthrope. Introduction explains the comedy of manners as an art form. Call Number: PQ 1837 .A48 1988 (VHS)
  • Commedia dell'arte / director John Mitchell. Illustrates the various elements of the commedia dell'arte style, including characterization, plot and design, with performance excerpts. Call Number: PQ 4236 .C64 1900z (VHS)
  • Contemporary theatre: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot / director Alan Schneider. Presents act 2 of Samuel Beckett's tragicomedy Waiting for Godot, in which Beckett's non-heroes Didi and Gogo wait and hope for Godot. Call Number: PQ 2603 .E378 E53 1988 (VHS)
  • Death of a salesman / director Volker Schlondorff. Two part videotape set, part one is the adaptation of Arthur Miller's play and part two is a look at the making of the film. Death of a salesman : social drama about an ageing travelling salesman who recognizes the emptiness of his life and commits suicide. Private conversations: takes a candid look at the filming of Arthur Miller's play, death of a salesman. Will witness conversations about the sets, lighting, camera placement and performances. Call Number: PS 3525 .I5156 D4 1998 (VHS)
  • Directors on acting. This video presents interviews with five film and television directors about acting. Call Number: PN 1995.9 .A26 D5 2002 (VHS)
  • A doll's house / director George Schaefer. All her life, Nora has been protected like a fragile possession ... a doll in a doll's house. After she marries, she becomes frustrated and realizes that, under the dominance of her husband, she will never have an identity of her own. Nora leaves her husband and children to find a new life for herself. Call Number: PT 8861 .C67 1983 (VHS)
  • A doll's house / director Joseph Losey. Nora, the "model wife," commits forgery and risks destruction in order to save her husband. But after he rejects her, she leaves her husband and children to begin a new life. Call Number: PT 8861 .M47 1998 (VHS)
  • Dutchman / director Anthony Harvey. An emotionally unstable white woman entices, then humiliates and finally knifes a black man while they ride a subway train in New York City. Call Number: None. Ask at Ekstrom Library Media service desk for DVD.
  • Early English drama: Quem Quaeritis, Abraham and Isaac, The second shepherd's play / director Harold Mantell. These three plays, that constitute the beginning of English drama, are presented as they would have been originally with additional historical commentary. Call Number: PR 1260 .E37 1988 (VHS)
  • The Eccentricities of a Nightingale / director Glenn Jordan. Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner portrays the sensitive spinster Alma Winemiller in this 1948 drama by Tennessee Williams, a radically revised version of his earlier play Summer and Smoke, set in Mississippi at the turn of the century. Frustrated with longing for the socially prominent young doctor next door, the eccentric, highly emotional minister's daughter decides to settle for one night with him in a rented hotel room. Call Number: PS 3545 .I5365 E22 1999 (VHS)
  • Fires in the mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other identities / director George C. Wolfe. On Aug. 19, 1991 in Crown Heights (Brooklyn, N.Y.) a Hasidic man accidentally runs over a Black boy (Gavin Cato). Three hours later a young Jewish scholar (Yankel Rosenbaum) was murdered by Black youths. Four days of fire-bombing and riots ensued. Smith acts out the roles of these 18 persons involved in the racial conflict, trying to present the differing views of this serious problem. Includes actual film footage of the riots and violence. Call Number: HN 90 .V5 F47 1993 (VHS)
  • For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf / director Oz Scott. A "choreopoem" that portrays the visions and frustrations of six young women who are trying to come to terms with themselves and with being African-American. Call Number: None. Ask at Ekstrom Library Media service desk for DVD.
  • Free to Dance: go for what you know. Shows the decades from 1960-1980 and the explosion of talent that came to the foreground. Call Number: GV 1624.7 .A34 F74 2001 v.3 (VHS)
  • Free to Dance: steps of the Gods. Discusses the Katherine Dunham Dance Company and how it became one of the most famous dance ensemble in the world. Call Number: GV 1624.7 .A34 F74 2001 v.2 (VHS)
  • Free to Dance: what do you dance Examines how African-Americans overcame a "segregated aesthetic" to become recognized as modern dance artists. Call Number: GV 1624.7 .A34 F74 2001 v.3 (VHS)
  • Fugard's Sizwe Bansi is dead / directed by Andrew Martin. Discusses stylization, avant-gardism, black theatre, and realism using Athol Fugard's play Sizwe Bansi is Dead. Call Number: None. Ask at Ekstrom Library Media service desk. (VHS)
  • Greek Theater. Explore the origins of Greek theatre and learn how the staging of a play changed over the course of time. Call Number: PA 3201 .R5 2001(VHS)
  • Hamlet / director Sir Laurence Olivier. Performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Call Number: PR 2807 .A23 H27 1995 (VHS)
  • Hamlet / director Tony Richardson. Hamlet is the young prince of Denmark whose father is murdered by his uncle Claudius in order to gain the throne. When the ghost of the old king tells Hamlet to kill Claudius, Hamlet is torn between the desire to avenge his father's death and his reluctance to shed blood. In the end tragedy destroys them all--including the lovely Ophelia, with whom Hamlet had once been romantically involved. Call Number: PR 2807 .A23 S53 1988 (VHS)
  • Hedda Gabbler / director David Cunliffe. The story of a woman's tormented search for self-fulfillment in a world dominated by men. Call Number: PT 8868 .A23 1993 (VHS)
  • How theatre began: a brief history of drama. Presents the history of drama from earliest times to the twentieth century. Focuses on terms, playwrights, and character types with the object of stimulating further studies. Call Number: None. Ask at Ekstrom Library Media service desk. (VHS)
  • Iceman Cometh / director John Frankenheimer. In the faded, Vermeer-like light of Harry Hope's 1912 New York skid row bar, a rag tag group of fallen men await the annual arrival of their friend Hickey. But now Hickey is sober, and he wants his drunken friends to do the same. Call Number: PS 3529 .N5 I35 2003 (VHS)
  • Long Day's Journey into Night / director Sidney Lumet. Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1956 autobiograpy, this film depicts a day in the life of a family deteriorating under drug addiction, alcoholism, and imminent death. Call Number: None. Ask at Ekstrom Library Media service desk for DVD.
  • Lost in Yonkers. Set during World War II, this is the story of two brothers sent to live with their domineering grandmother after their mother's death. Also living with her is their Aunt Bella, a somewhat backward 36 year-old who escapes to the movies whenever she can. But when Uncle Louie, a small-time gangster, arrives, everyone gets a surprising second chance at happiness. Call Number: None. Ask at Ekstrom Library Media service desk for DVD.
  • Luther / director Guy Green. The story of Martin Luther and his eventual condemnation of the Catholic Church and incitement of the Protestant reformation. Call Number: PR 6029 .S39 L85 2003 (VHS)
  • Macbeth / director Trevor Nunn. Presents a production of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth designed especially for television. Call Number: PR 2823 .A23 1978 (VHS)
  • Maids / director Christopher Miles. Two Parisian sisters, Solange and Claire, serve as maids to a cruel socialite, but whenever she leaves, the two act out a bizarre, complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerful lust for revenge upon the mistress they serve. Call Number: PQ 2613 .E53 B6132 2003 (VHS)
  • Medea / director Robert Whitehead. Euripides' classic tragedy about a proud woman betrayed by the man she loves. Call Number: PA 3978 .M4 J4 1982 (VHS)
  • Midsummer Night's Dream / director Joan Kemp-Welch. Drama about the impetuous yearnings of love among mere mortals, especially when the woodland's elves and fairies intervene. Call Number: PR 2827 .A2 R7 1984 (VHS)
  • Mikado / director Norman Campbell. A spoof of Victorian English society. Presents the story of a lowly tailor's transformation from prisoner in a country jail to the rank of Lord Executioner. Call Number: M 1500 .S9 M55 1986 (VHS)
  • Minions of the Race. A dramatization of Anne Paolucci's award-winning "Minions of the Race," featuring Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, all of whom served Henry VIII at one of the most critical moments in English history. Call Number: PS 3566 .A595 M56 2002 (VHS)
  • Modern American drama: Eugene O'Neill : Long day's journey into night / director Sidney Lumet. Abridged version of an O'Neill masterpiece. Discovery is forced upon delusion and truth upon lies to produce a poetic portrait of O'Neill's morphine-addicted mother and her tragic family. Call Number: PS 3529 .N5 L6 1988 (VHS)
  • Oedipus Rex / director Tyrone Guthrie. Filmed version of Sophocles's tragedy. Performed in masks. Call Number: PA 4414 .O7 Y43 1988 (VHS)
  • Oh! Calcutta! / director Volker Schlondorff. Broadway musical comedy featuring nudity. Call Number: PN 1997 .O3 1993 (VHS)
  • One step in a journey: Tadashi Suzuki in Australia / directors Tony Chapman and Ziyin Wang. Japanese theater director Tadashi Suzuki incorporates his technique and methodology in an Australian workshop and training session in preparation for the theatrical production of the "Chronicles of MacBeth." Suzuki's emphasis is on using the energy of the body to release emotion to the audience. A brief review of the production follows the performance. Call Number: PN 2075 .O62 1993 (VHS)
  • Out Town / director Sam Wood. Adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning play illustrating the relationship and cycles of life in a small town at the turn of the century. The sensitive portraits of the townspeople show the personality of a community that is drawn from the people who comprise it. Call Number: PN 1997 .O97 1991 (VHS)
  • Our Town / director Kirk Browning. Wilder's play about the residents of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, during the early years of the twentieth century, performed by actors working without props on a virtually empty stage. Call Number: PS 3545 .I345 O9 1989 (VHS)
  • Paradise Now / director Julien Beck. This videotape was shot during the last presentations of Paradise Now in Brussels and before 7,000 spectators in the Berlin Sportspalast. Expressionistic coloring has been injected by electronic means. During the four hours of performance, a baccanal of forms and confrontations goes on in every part of the theater. Paradise Now is mind blowing and innovative blurring of the line between political action, psychotherapy, tribal ritual and experimental theatre. Call Number: PN 1995.9 .E93 P3 1995 (VHS)
  • Pirates of Penzance / director Wilford Leach. Gilbert and Sullivan's raucous and comedic operatic tale of Federic, a 'slave to duty' pirate, and the lowly band of 'orphaned' pirates, is captured in all its fun and glory in this never before released production. Call Number: None. Ask at Ekstrom Library Media service desk for DVD.
  • Requiem for a Heavyweight / director Ralph Nelson. A drama about a heavyweight fighter who, as a broken man at the end of his fighting career, reluctantly agrees upon the demand of his manager to surrender what is left of his pride and to participate in a fixed wrestling match. Call Number: PN 1997 .R48 2001 (VHS)
  • Rhinoceros / director Tom O'Horgan. Rhinoceros tells the story of a French town plagued by rhinoceri. These are not ordinary rhinoceroses, but people who have been victims of "rhinoceritis." Or is it something else entirely? Call Number: PN 1997 .R475 2003 (VHS)
  • The rise of Greek tragedy: Sophocles: Oedipus the king / director Harold Mantell. A presentation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, performed in the authentic setting of a fifth-century Greek theater, with the use of masks made after ancient models. Shows how this drama developed from primeval sacrificial ceremonies to Dionysius. Call Number: PA 4414 .O7 M36 1998 (VHS)
  • Romeo and Juliet / director Franco Zeffirelli. Film version of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their own lives. Call Number: PR 2831 .A23 1996 (VHS)
  • School for Scandal / director Hal Burton. Live TV adaptation of the classic Sheridan satire of 18th century English morals and manners. Call Number: PN 1997 .S31 1991 (VHS)
  • The Serpent / director Jac Vanza. Discussion and analysis of the play "The Serpent." Call Number: PS 3572 .A45 S4 1970 (VHS)
  • Signals through the flames / directors Sheldon Rochlin and Maxine Harris. A film by Sheldon Rochlin and Maxine Harris outlining the tumultuous history of the famous experimental group, The Living Theatre. Call Number: PN 1995.9 .D6 S5 1989 (VHS)
  • A Soldier's Story / director Norman Jewison. A black army attorney is sent to Fort Neal, Louisiana, near the end of World War II to investigate the murder of Sgt. Waters, a black man who despised his own roots. PQ4835.I7 ‡b S313 1988 (VHS)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire / director Elia Kazan. An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by her brother-in-law. Call Number: PN 1997 .M613 1991 (VHS)
  • Strindberg's Miss Julie: Royal Shakespeare Company / director Robin Phillips. A noblewoman allows her butler to seduce her after her engagement is broken; her disgrace begins to destroy her. Call Number: PN 1997 .M613 1991 c.2 (VHS)
  • Sweet Bird of Youth / director Richard Brooks. A young man as ambitious as he is charming, returns to his home town after a prolonged stay in Hollywood. He brings with him a once beautiful but now faded movie queen with the intention of capitalizing upon her fame for his own ends. But when he rekindles an affair with a former flame, he brings down the wrath of her father, a local polital boss who swears revenge. Call Number: PN 1997 .S95 1989 (VHS)
  • Taming of the Shrew / director Franco Zeffirelli. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton sparkle and amuse as Katharina and Petruchio in William Shakespeare's comic look at male chauvinism and women's lib in the 16th century. Call Number: PR 2832 .A23 1987 (VHS)
  • Tartuffe / director Pierre Badel. Tartuffe, Moliere's master of unctuous evil, insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian household in this indictment of religious hypocrisy. Call Number: PQ 1842 .A1 1986 (VHS)
  • Theatre of the absurd: Luigi Pirandello: Six characters in search of an author / director Ken Frankel. An abridged presentation in English of Pirandello's play in which six characters seek to exchange their fixed, frozen form in art for the uncertainty of life. Includes a short introduction to the play. Call Number: PQ 4835 .I7 S313 1988 (VHS)
  • Tintypes / director Don Roy King. Evokes the emotions of pride, nostalgia, suffering and optimism felt by Americans at the start of the last century. Call Number: None. Ask at Ekstrom Library Media service desk for DVD.
  • Twelfth night, or, What you will / director Trevor Nunn. The tale of troublesome twins who win the heart of an entire kingdom. Call Number: PN 1997 .T81 1997 (VHS)
  • The Vagina Monologues. One-woman performance piece, a paean to the joys of female sexuality, based on interviews with real women. Travels beyond the stage as Ensler explores the creative impetus behind the monologues. Call Number: PS 3555 .N75 V32 2002 (VHS)
  • View from the Bridge / director Sidney Lumet. A Brooklyn longshoreman is attracted to his 18-year-old niece, something he will not admit to himself or his neglected wife. Call Number: PN 1997 .V63 1996 (VHS)
  • Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / director Mike Nichols. A freewheeling, headlong slide into the corrosive hell of a marriage twisted by years of hatred and humiliation. Call Number: PN 19897 .W46 1996 (VHS)
  • Wit / director Mike Nichols. An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit. Call Number: PS 3555 .D4845 W585 2001 (VHS)
  • Zoot Suit / director Luis Valdez. A group of Mexican-Americans are sent to San Quentin unjustly for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. Based on the actual case and zoot suit riots of 1940's Los Angeles. Call Number: PS 3572 .A387 Z66 1991 (VHS)
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