The Yoshi show.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Brook. Peter, 1925-

Creative Arts Television (Firm)

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern Theater.

Local Subjects:

Modern Theater.

Genre:

Documentary

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 streaming video (28 min.))

Place of Publication:

Kent, CT : Creative Arts Television, 1974.

Summary:

"Japanese actor Yoshi performs a series of scenes with other actors, members of Peter Brook's Experimental Theater Company in Paris, villagers in Iran, African villagers, students from the National School for the Deaf. With Michele Collison, Lou Zeldes, other actors and actresses. Scenes include: An imaginary bird. Yoshi lets the bird light on his finger and sets it free in mime. Yoshi and Michele Collison (folk singer) sing. She sings in English. He sings in Japanese. There is a clarinet solo. He has played Shakespeare in Paris and improvised in the streets of San Francisco. He leaves himself open to let things happen to him. Yoshi imitates Japanese Noh, a Samurai battle. Yoshi as Ariel in Brook's "Tempest" by Shakespeare. Yoshi and Brook's troupe in Africa. Yoshi and Lou Zeldes perform a stick dance to music by Elizabeth Swados. Yoshi in New York, in Central Park, on the Brooklyn Bridge, and at the Statue of Liberty. Yoshi trains kids of the NY School for the Deaf searching for the meaning of sound. 1974."

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 22, 2010).

Previously published as DVD.

OCLC:

630564609