Video Work: Documentation of "Carmilla" (1976)
Audio/Visual
This video documents the ETC Company’s 1976 production of "Carmilla” at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. The play is Wilford Leach and John Braswell’s adaptation of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s 19th century Gothic vampire novella, with musical direction by Zizi Mueller. The video was originally shot using a Portapak camera, and camera originals are spread across two separate half-inch open reels (numbered F13 and F14 in La MaMa's collection).
Video documentation of earlier productions of “Carmilla” at La MaMa is contained on Reels B3a, B3b, and B23 (1971), Reels B3, B4, and B59b (1972), and Reels C6 and C7 (1973) in La MaMa’s collection.
Researchers interested in viewing this material should contact La MaMa's Archives at archives@lamama.org.
Video documentation of earlier productions of “Carmilla” at La MaMa is contained on Reels B3a, B3b, and B23 (1971), Reels B3, B4, and B59b (1972), and Reels C6 and C7 (1973) in La MaMa’s collection.
Researchers interested in viewing this material should contact La MaMa's Archives at archives@lamama.org.
Recording date: March 1976
English
OBJ.1976.0207
1/2 inch open reel, Mp4
Margaret Benczak (performer), Donald Arrington (performer), Nancy Heikin (performer), Tony Azito (performer), Audrey Lavine (performer), Cayce Blanchard (performer), Zizi Mueller (performer), Dean Kelso (performer), Zizi Mueller (music), Dan Berlinghoff (performer), Niva Petrovich (performer), Wilford Leach (director), Jack Coddington (contributor), Ben Johnston (music), Charles Daffi (tech), Richard Laws (contributor), Carol Mullins (designer), The ETC Company of La MaMa (contributor), John Paskalis (tech), Annette Harper (contributor), William Milhizer (performer), Bill Ruyle (performer)
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873, Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873. Carmilla, Heikin, Nancy, Leach, Wilford, 1929-1988, Ruyle, Bill, Johnston, Ben, ETC Company of La Mama, Lesbian vampires, Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Audio-visual materials, Off Off-Broadway theater, New York (State)