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  [Play Rehearsal]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  Rehearsal for a play, performed outdoors.

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  What Where

  CLIR, Global Village, Global Village, Guerrilla Television

  A production of Samuel Beckett’s short play written for television “What Where?” The production was supervised remotely by Beckett shortly before his death.

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  Peephole Art: Beckett for Television

  CLIR, Global Village, Global Village, Guerrilla Television, John Reilly

  Features definitive versions of Beckett’s recent works written or adapted for television. There are three additional works in The Beckett Project series produced by Global Village: What Where (1988/10 minutes), a video version of Beckett’s last play overseen by the playwright himself, Godot in San Quentin (1988/27 minutes), a fascinating version of Waiting For Godot, produced by inmates of this maximum-security prison, and Waiting for Beckett (1994/86 minutes), a unique television documentary on the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett, which includes a rare scene with the playwright critiquing a video performance of one of his plays.

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  [Artaud rehearsal: Ireland]

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, NHPRC, Outside Agitators

  This tape documents the rehearsal for the joint Videopolis / Victory Gardens Theater production of “Artaud.” Lead actor J. Pat Miller goes through numerous scenes that will be included in the final performance. There is also footage of a orchestral concert towards the end of the tape.

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  On the God Dam Lock In

  American Way, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Performance

  A documentary following a group of actors as they perform a play about the perils of incarceration at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York.