A Video of Remnants, my play--Post-production
Academic Year:
2013 - 2014 (June 1, 2013 through May 31, 2014)
Funding Requested:
$2,000.00
Project Dates:
-
Applicant(s):
Overview of the Project:
Since 1997, I have been doing a one-person performance of my play, Remnants, originally produced for radio and distributed on NPR. As of this date, I have presented the piece "live" at more than 300 venues worldwide--primarily universities, secondary schools, museums, academic conferences, and Holocaust remembrance events. The play draws on three decades of my interviews with Holocaust survivors--it is not verbatim "testimony" but rather recreates quintessential conversational moments--and performances are always followed by discussion/Q&A. I see performances, and especially the discussion that follows, as an extension of my teaching on what has been my primary teaching and research topic for almost forty years. A video is intended especially for classroom use to reach students on a wider scale than up to now, and I would remain available for Q&A via teleconference and similar. I am working this Fall with Digital Media Commons to "shoot" the "out-takes," which include an interview with me based the questions audiences most often raise. But the big expense is post-production, mainly editing, that will begin in January 2014. It is for that expense that I apply for funding help. Further info on the background and performance history of Remnants can be found at http://www.henrygreenspan.com/work2.htm