More shards of Big Joy:  Deleted scenes

More shards of Big Joy: Deleted scenes

Learn about San Francisco theater, a Conscientious Objector camp, Orion Broughton at work, Armistead Maupin's courtship, David Del Tredici's inspirations for setting poetry to music, two more of James Broughton's films ("Dreamwood" and "The Golden Positions"), and various memorials for Broughton.

More shards of Big Joy:  Deleted scenes
  • Armistead & Chris: The Bliss of With

    Armistead Maupin tells in 2009 of how his husband Christopher Turner wooed him with James Broughton poetry. Photo of Armistead, Chris, and Big Joy Co-Director Eric Slade

  • Reading Broughton's poetry

    James Broughton's poetry read by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anna Halprin, Jim Cory, Sally Dixon, Edward Guthmann, Armistead Maupin & Neeli Cherkovski

  • Joel in Port Townsend

  • Seaside Funeral / Ocean Dance

  • About 'Dreamwood'

    Mark Thompson and John Luther Schofill reminisce about James Broughton's longest film, Dreamwood (1972), about the journey into the divine feminine.

  • About 'The Golden Positions'

    James Broughton's 32-minute film, "The Golden Positions" (1970), parodies the Catholic Mass as it explores naked human bodies in various states of Confucius's "golden positions" - standing, sitting and lying.

  • Interplayers/Playhouse reunion

    Actors from San Francisco's Interplayers (1940's) and The Playhouse (1950's) gather monthly to read plays together. One Saturday in 2010, they read James Broughton's "The Playground" - which some of them had previously starred in.

  • Orion at work

    Orion Broughton, son of James Broughton and Suzanna Hart, explains his job at Atlas Technologies in Port Townsend, Washington.

  • Keith Hennessy's long poem

    Performance artist Keith Hennessy reflects on how James Broughton has impacted his work, and reveals a long poetic script which he performs with the "Cocksucker Chorus."

  • David Del Tredici makes poetic music

    Composer David Del Tredici explains the joys and challenges of setting James Broughton's poem "Wondrous the Merge" to music.