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Courtyard Playhouse

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Richard Pyatt interviews a young group of the new (and successful) Courtyard Playhouse members:

Ken Eulo, Managing Director
Bob Stark, President
David Leary, Resident actor
Duncan Fife, Public Relations/actor
Bob Fraser, Children's Theater Advisor

Courtyard Theater is currently having a run of _Lady Chatterley's Lover_.

The members of Courtyard Playhouse talk about:
Their acting method, modeled after the Actor's Studio
Use of videotape and cameras to rehearse
Ego of actors and directors
Use of multimedia in today's theater
Children's theater
The need to interact with the audience via an intimate space (and why Broadway should be torn down)
What makes an experimental theater thrive
Critics
The economics of established theaters
Plans for the future of Courtyard Playhouse


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 151795
Municipal archives id: T6078 / T6079

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