#cahtb

Teddster 🧸

Are there any possibilites to watch anything of it? Of course, I would pay, if there are DVDs or copies or anything. I have a hard time finding clips of it even:(

There is exceedingly little about it. I and others on Tumblr have spent a lot of time trying to cobble together as much as we can about the production.

It's no wonder you have a hard time finding clips as the only clips online are of other productions. I have been looking for acedemic writing or indeed any writing about it, and I'll post a few links below.

If you want to get an idea of how the play was made, here is an interview with the writer:

If you want to know more about what happened behind the scenes, here's a retrospective about the production:

Here's a rather often quoted review of the play:

Here's the transcription of the play by @amorphousgenderlesscryptid, to whom we owe having been able to read it at all

This is a link of the official photos by Martha Swope in the New York Public Library digital collections

This is the link to the review of the play in Time Magazine, and the description of their "disquieting relationship" that got us so obsessed interested on Tumblr:

There is a play written about being on Broadway by the man who understudied for Robert De Niro during Cuba's run, and he mentions being in the play in it.

Then there is some academic writing in Spanish that I haven't read because I don't read Spanish and even I am not that obsessed. But anything and everything about this play will have to come from archives. Primary sources. Academic sources. And now, of course there is also a fandom on Tumblr for it. It's a testament to fans' obsession that all of this has come together at all and most of it can be found in the cuba and his teddy bear tag on Tumblr. There are no clips of the De Niro production. The copies that exist are in the New York Public Library and they have not been digitized. Possibly Ralph Macchio has a copy somewhere, but that is how rare it is.

There's another play by Povod, in his trilogy La Puta Vida, that features a character that is also called Teddy and sounds exactly like him, so if you want, that can probably be read as a sequel to the play. Both plays can be bought via Concord Theatricals.

I so understand that you'd pay to see the production, but it is impossible as of now. The only clips that exist are from other productions. There's also an Italian film of the play, called "The Mongrel"

Alessandro Gassmann seems to have loved it as much as the Tumblr fandom. However, this is an adaption that was transported to Italy, 2012 instead of NYC, 1986.

I am very sorry that your best bet seems to be checking the Tumblr tag regularly and contributing to the discussion of the play or the fandom (there are great fanworks in there).

go my teddys

It has Ralph Macchio too