Interview with Peter Cheeseman and Roy Nevitt about producing stage shows from material sourced from oral history interviews (1976).
Peter Cheeseman and Roy Nevitt discuss producing stage shows from material sourced from oral history interviews. Peter Cheeseman explains how to obtain folk songs by gathering people (men or women, not both) together and highlights some of the collections he has sourced. He explains how the theatrical device of parallel stories arises, i.e: two scenes played out on stage at the same time.
Also comments on how the range of emotions appear to become mellower with the reminiscences of older people and explains the need to ‘steer’ a show, to avoid (or because of) buried bitternesses.
Roy Nevitt raises the subject of a show, he created, that featured [Joey] Guest, a local minister, as a central character. Peter Cheeseman stated that he found it ‘too dissipated’ and that, in his opinion the direction should be decided after the material had been gathered and not predetermined..
Creator
Cheeseman, Peter, Stantonbury Campus Drama Group
Extent
1 audio tape cassette, transcript
Contributor
Nevitt, Roy
Reference number
ALC/024/008
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