Theatre in Video

ISR SpotlightJanuary 22, 2010

TIV

• Published by Alexander Street Press• Initially acquired through CRKN’s

Digital Content Infrastructure project, which secured over $47 Million in Digital Content for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Alexander Street Press

•American Film Scripts Online•Asian American Drama•Black Drama•Black Thought and Culture•British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries•Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment •In the First Person•Latin American Women Writers •Latino Literature•North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories

•North American Indian Biographical Database•North American Theatre Online•North American Women's Drama •North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 •Oral History Online•Social Theory•Theatre in Video•Twentieth Century North American Drama•Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

TIV

• “... definitive performances of the world's leading plays”

• 279 titles – 141 performances– 138 documentaries

TIV• Includes the full BBC Shakespeare

content:A Midsummer Night's DreamAll's Well That Ends WellAntony and CleopatraAs You Like ItCoriolanusCymbelineHamletHenry IV Part 1Henry IV Part 2Henry VHenry VI Part 1Henry VI Part 2Henry VI Part 3Henry VIIIJulius CaesarKing JohnKing LearLove's Labours LostMacbeth

Measure for MeasureMuch Ado About NothingOthelloPericlesRichard IIRichard IIIRomeo and JulietThe Comedy of ErrorsThe Merchant of VeniceThe Merry Wives of WindsorThe Taming of the ShrewThe TempestThe Winter's TaleTimon of AthensTitus AndronicusTroilus and CressidaTwelfth NightTwo Gentlemen of Verona

TIV

• Facilitates easy analysis...– Shakespeare comparisons– Individual performers / directors– Documentary AND performance material

Things to keep in mind...

• Technical hiccups– Quick search doesn’t display in IE 7– Search is sometimes buggy

• Creating playlists– Clip functionality lacks precision

• Accessibility considerations“We would like to have transcripts to Theatre in Video, sadly, licensing restrictions currently prevent us from providing the script in text form”

Things to keep in mind...

• We’re still waiting on MARC records• An excellent, but very basic collection– A collection of “definitive performances”– Inherent biases worth noting... • Performances are primarily from the US and

Europe• Playwrights – 72 included... only 5 are female• Production dates...

Things to keep in mind...

Production dates...

Up & coming!

• iPhone application will be available soon