Barbara Garson discusses her controversial play, MacBird, with Jack Weinberg. The conversation was recorded at KPFA during Mrs. Garson's recent return to Berkeley for the opening of her play at the New Committee in San Francisco on April 4, 1967. An episode of Where It's At, March 22, 1967. Previously cataloged as BB2111.
Topics: Garson, Barbara., Dramatic criticism., Women dramatists., Playwriting., American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Bonnie Bellow talks with Barbara Garson (b. 1941), the author of "Macbird," about her new book "All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work", about the alienating nature of routine labor. They discuss Garson's interviews with working people conducted at a wide variety of workplaces, and Garson reads segments from these interviews.
Topics: Garson, Barbara., Work -- Psychological aspects., Women authors, LABOR, American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Aircheck of a live performance of MacBird!, by playwright Barbara Garson (1941 - ), directed by KPFK' Phil Austin (1941 - ), which opened that month (January 1967?) at the Village Gate in New York City. MacBird! is a 1967 satire by Barbara Garson that superimposed the transferral of power following the Kennedy assassination onto the plot of Shakespeare's Macbeth (from Wikipedia). Actors include Ken Greenwald, Richard Paul, Philip Proctor, Carol Samuels, Dianne Turley[sp?]. Music by Leon Levitt,...
Topics: Garson, Barbara., Austin, Phil., Radio plays., American drama--Women authors, American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Another in a series of programs on women and occupational safety and health produced by Dr. Jeanne Stellman, executive director of the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center and Dr. Mary Sue Henifin, an associate of the Center. The topic of this program is the health of women office workers. Guests are Dr. Karen Nussbaum, former office worker and director of Working Women, the National Association of Office Workers; and Barbara Garson, author of MacBird and more recently All the Livelong...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, Henifin, Mary...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
