Caldwell, L. Scott

Gridiron gang ( Visual )
4 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 1,020 libraries worldwide
Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles with the seemingly insolvable problem. The vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on other high school football teams. Based on a true story.

Going to St. Ives by Lee Blessing ( Recording )
5 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in English and held by 91 libraries worldwide
The dignified mother of a ruthless African dictator travels to England to seek treatment for her failed eyes from a renowned ophthalmologist. At first glance, it looks like one woman helping another, but each woman brings to the other her true agenda, triggering a profound moral dilemma and a chain reaction of events with great personal and political aftershocks.

Gridiron gang ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide
Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles with the seemingly insolvable problem. The vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on other high school football teams. Based on a true story.

Soweto green ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2000 and 2009 in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide
Dr. Curtis Tshabalala, a South African expatriate living in Beverly Hills with his American wife Cora returns to his Soweto homeland with hopes of planting trees and dreams of a utopian South Africa. Cora's delicate sensibilities are offended when she sees the shanty town Curtis calls home and the goat sacrifice ceremony that welcomes them. A comdey of manners and errors ensues as the doctor attempts to beautify his homeland: Old attitudes and prejudices still prevail and cross-cultural communication faulters in a nation in the throes of an identity crisis.

Emerging playwrights. The Negro Ensemble Company ( Visual )
2 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide
Two programs focusing on the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). In the first program, Lloyd Richards, Dean of the Yale Drama School speaks with playwright Steve Carter about the NEC and the work of a playwright. It includes a scene from Carter's play Eden performed by the NEC. Douglas Turner Ward, artistic director, discusses the history and philosophy of the company. In the second program, Richards interviews playwright Gus Edwards. Edwards discusses his career and the program includes scenes from his play Old Phantoms performed by the NEC. Also, other members of the artistic staff speak about the work and importance of the NEC to the growth of black theatre in America.

Intimate betrayal ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide
A journalist searching for her brother's murderer ends up falling in love with the number one suspect.

The piano lesson ( Visual )
2 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
"The play opens in Pittsburg, 1936. The piano sits in the living room of Doaker Charles and his wife, Bernice. The instrument whose facade is covered with carvings depicting figures from African history, is used by her daughter, Maretha to take the lessons that her mother hopes will lead the girl to a career performing classical music. Bernice's brother, Boy Willie, visits from Mississippi and makes a request. He has the chance to acquire a patch of plantation land back in the south-the same land his ancestors worked as slaves. But to raise the money to buy the land, Boy Willie must convince Bernice to part with the treasured piano."--San Francisco Chronicle, October 6, 1991.

Home ( Visual )
2 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

DER TOD HINTER DER MASKE ( Book )
1 edition published in 1995 in German and held by 1 library worldwide
Reporterin Helen McNulty ist vom Verlust ihres Freundes und Kollegen Jan Talbek traumatisiert, der durch die Schergen einer lateinamerikanischen Diktatur ermordet wurde. Unter dem Vorwand der Recherche sucht sie die Psychotherapeutin Anna Lenke in deren Zentrum für Folteropfer auf. Annas einfühlsame Hilfe und der charmante Mitpatient Tomas Ramirez geben Helen neue Kraft, doch dann muss sie plötzlich eine schreckliche Entdeckung über Ramirez' Vergangenheit machen... Raul Julia brilliert hier in seiner letzten Rolle als zwielichtige Gestalt. Jonathan Sanger gelang ein beklemmender Psychothriller über die quälenden und erlösenden Aspekte bei der Suche nach Wahrheit und Vertrauen.

Code traque ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1997 in French and held by 1 library worldwide