Author: Gwethalyn Williams
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COME LEARN ABOUT MXTW AT OUR PIZZA PARTY!
MXTW 2023 registration is now open. Come learn about the workshop, play some games, and eat some pizza at this casual information session. WHEN: Saturday, April 1 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm WHERE: Manhattan Arts Center 1520 Poyntz Ave, Manhattan KS Please wear comfortable clothes you can move in. We hope to see you there!…
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Weeks 5 & 6: Metamorphosis
We’re in the homestretch now. It’s the last two weeks of the workshop and the company members are working on making decisions about how they want the pieces they have written to sound and look, practicing, and recording their performances. We’ve been going thorough our own metamorphosis and it’s been very hard work. This year’s…
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Week Two: Gifts
Week two of the workshop is always one of the most fun. The work done in week one begins bearing fruit as the participants gain confidence. They start layering in previously explored skills and incorporating multiple concepts into the games we play. The sense of ensemble becomes stronger, and the added confidence of the group…
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This summer we will make theater together while we’re apart!
MXTW Responds to the Pandemic Due to the COVID-19 pandemic this summer’s Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop will be held as an online course. We did not come to this decision lightly. We know that a great deal of what we value about the experience MXTW offers is because of our work together in the same…
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MXTW 2020 Pre-registration is live now!
We know there is a lot of uncertainty at this time. Here is some information regarding this summer’s workshop in light of the Covid-19 pandemic: Just like everyone, everywhere, we are waiting to see what happens and have no way to anticipate at this time if the workshop will be able to happen in its…
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We Are Now Accepting Applications for MXTW 2019! Questions? Look Here!
WHAT IS MXTW? The Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop (MXTW) is a program of the Manhattan Arts Center. MXTW is a 5-week workshop in May–June for high school students. Part classroom and part production company, participants study various styles of avant-garde theater, then write and perform original pieces using the techniques of the styles they have…
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MXTW 2018 is Starting Strong!
We have 18 passionate participants and four dedicated directors who are already three sessions in to this year’s theatrical adventure. he died saying that farce is a poetic element like sorrow for example then they sang crocrocrocrocrocrocro We have tried our hands at performing some Dada and discussed the dramatic tension of Beckett’s later minimalistic…
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MXTW is Norway Bound!
We’re taking this show on the road. It is with great delight that we announce we are close enough to our fundraising goals for the Norway exchange that we will be making the trip! We have nine students and two directors who can’t wait to go show Oslo audiences our work! We have raised over…
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We’re getting Ready for the Norway Bound fundraiser this friday!
Hello MXTW Fans, Our Norway Bound Fundraiser is happening this Friday, March 9th at the Manhattan Arts Center! Check out these photos of our students and alumni preparing some experimentaly performance goodness for you! There is desserty goodness in the works too with our experimental theater themed dessert contest! Come see how our creative dessert…