Alice Childress  - Trouble in mind

Complete ACT I and  Part of ACT II

Trouble in Mind

 Recording of Act 1  1995 Performance

Trouble in Mind

Agape Theatre Project 2019 Production

Clips from Act 2  

(Sound not so good)

Excerpts highlighted for showing in January 25th session

Playwright and Director (Working in the Theatre #119)

American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards® and home of and the Obie Awards®)

The panel - director Melvin Bernhardt ("The Beach House"), playwright Alice Childress ("Moms"), director Walter Dallas ("Moms"), playwright Nancy Donohue ("The Beach House"), playwright Patrick Meyers ("K2"), and director Terry Schreiber ("K2") - talk about where they started, how many acted before writing and directing, the relationship between directors and playwrights, developing a show particularly out-of-town, the challenges of casting a play, and the collaboration amongst actors, directors, and authors.

Originally taped - April, 1987

Alice Childress talks about her grandmother, etc.   (33:25 - 39:45)

Roundabout Theatre  - Virtual Theatre Talk (15:00)

October 22, 2021

A bit more information about Childress's refusal to make changes. The theatre researcher has spent time at the Schaumburg with the Alice Childress Papers  and has looked at various versions of the play. She talks about the original production at 6:09 - 8:47.



Play Club - Trouble in Mind  (31:07)

Alabama Shakespeare Club     May 20, 2021

Actor and director Joy Vandervort-Cobb, currently Associate Artistic Director at PURE Theater in Charleston, SC, joins playwright and 2021 Whiting Award winner Donnetta Lavinia Grays to discuss Alice Childress's Trouble In Mind.

(Skip quickly over that smiling guy at the beginning ...)

Many of the same words spoken in the previous two clips, but some sections are very different and raise interesting issues; e.g., white's notion that doing the play is a good deed, an unearned gift; who actually has control in this space?'; the ending. 

Especially interesting is the segment from 19:50 - 29:50.

"Metro Scene" features Trouble in Mind (12:00)

Marvin Jackson interviews actors E Faye Butler, Marty Lodge, Thomas Jefferson Byrd who discuss their roles and the theme of the Alice Childress play "Trouble in Mind," performed in 2011 at Arena Stage in Washington, DC.

Highlights:

Playing Wiletta in One Scene

Takes on a Scene - Trouble in Mind (4:08)

American Conservatory Theatre    April 6, 2021

In this clip from #TroubleInMind, actor Patrice Johnson Chevannes speaks to what it was like working on this virtual production.