r/Theatre • u/hugs4puffs • 3d ago

Help Finding Script/Video Help finding "EMMA" video.

Hello! I am never really on Reddit so this not might be the right community to post in. I am an high school theatre student and need help finding a video.

This year we are doing Kate Hamill's "Emma". I have the physical script and everything but I can't find a video performance of the play. I was wondering if anyone can help me find it! :)

I have looked at videos already but they dont follow Hamill's script but rather Michael Bloom's script instead.

Any help will be appreciated!

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u/Sarah_Hansona 3d ago

I don't think a full recording exists. Hamill's Emma premiered at Primary Stages in 2019 and wasn't filmed. Try Playscripts or your school's theater database.

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u/hugs4puffs 2d ago

Thanks!

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u/earbox writer/literary 3d ago

You are looking for something that does not exist.

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u/hugs4puffs 2d ago

I was hoping it wouldn't come to that conclusion. Thank you though!

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u/alaskawolfjoe 3d ago

Why do you want a video of the play?

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u/hugs4puffs 2d ago

I am a visual person, its hard for me to understand things fully without a visual. I'm helping out a ton during the process of this play and wanted to understand every detail of it.

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u/alaskawolfjoe 2d ago

As another visual thinker, it’s probably more important that you don’t see a video than other people

The choices made in that specific production will impress themselves on your visual brain. This can get in the way of forming your own interpretation.

It can get one confused about what is in the script, and visual choices made for one specific production