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Rumstick Road /

"The Wooster Group's 1977 production Rumstick Road has been recognized by critics and scholars as a landmark work that helped usher in a new era of experimental performance. Composed by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte in response to the suicide of Gray's mother, Rumstick Road com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gray, Spalding, 1941-2004 (Author, Actor), LeCompte, Elizabeth (Author, Compiler), Howes, Libby (Author, Actor), Porter, Bruce (Author), Vawter, Ron (Author, Actor)
Other Authors: Kobland, Ken (Compiler), Hapaz, Clay (Compiler), Schloss, Matt (Compiler), Bernstein, Max, 1987- (Compiler), Clayburgh, Jim (Actor)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Wooster Group, [2013]
Subjects:
Experimental theater > New York (State) > New York.
Improvisation (Acting)
Experimental theater.
New York (State) > New York.
Filmed performances.
Experimental films.
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Summary:"The Wooster Group's 1977 production Rumstick Road has been recognized by critics and scholars as a landmark work that helped usher in a new era of experimental performance. Composed by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte in response to the suicide of Gray's mother, Rumstick Road combines Gray's personal recorded conversations, family letters, the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, 35mm slides, music, and dance. The video reconstruction presented in this DVD keeps faith with the theater piece by registering, in a new composite, the vivid texture of time and memory that shaped the original production. LeCompte and filmmaker Ken Kobland have worked with Wooster Group archivist Clay Hapaz to layer, juxtapose, and blend together numerous archival fragments -- including U-Matic video, Super 8 film, reel-to-reel audio tapes, photographs, and slides -- in order to reconstruct that lost performance."--Wooster Group website
Item Description:Inserted program notes ([4] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.) include Rumstick Road source materials, production history, video reconstruction credits, and reproduced image and production information from the 1977 program.
Bonus materials: Conversation with Ken Kobland (on reconstructing the piece for video); Conversation with Elizabeth LeCompte (on staging the original production); Conversation with Spalding Gray (on the Group's creative process in the development of Rumstick Road).
Physical Description:1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD.
Production Credits:Designed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with Jim Clayburgh ; edited by Ken Kobland.