Category: 2010
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Let’s Get This Show On The Road!
So maybe I’ve been a little remiss in my blogging, or maybe I’ve just been so busy I haven’t even noticed that a month has gone by since my last entry. It might lead the innocent reader to believe nothing has been going on workshop-wise over the last month, but don’t be deceived, we’ve been…
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Time To Call On All That Discipline
So, it’s 1 o’clock in the morning on the day of the opening. Perfect time for director blogging, no? This year’s show is fantastic! But you don’t have to take my word on it, just check out this picture of the cast in performance. That’s right, they rock! I hope to see you at the…
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Full Speed Ahead! No Turning back. Leave No One Behind.
I can never believe how fast all of this happens, or how intense the work is. I have had several sixteen-hour days in the past two weeks, but every minute of it as fulfilling as ever. So Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp is an interesting little story. Aladdin itself is pretty tame, except maybe for…
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MXTW: THE MOVIE
Havana Mahoney (pretty much the most talented young photographer/videographer I know), made the workshop an amazing video to present at the Minneapolis Fringe Festival Showcase. It is gorgeous. Please Watch It. For more information on Havana Mahoney’s work please visit her Flickr account
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Session 7: Big Decisions
Twelve strait hours of Experimental Theatre? Sounds awesome to us, and was. Yesterday my day began rolling out of bed just in time to keep on rolling down to the theatre for some rousing games of “catch the platform!” and “crawl under these risers and bang around some clamps.” This year the set is much…
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Session 6: And They Lived Ever After: Kondoleon or They Were Brutally Deconstructed: Schenkar
We began the readings today with The Brides by Harry Kondoleon. The Brides doesn’t just critique one fairytale, it critiques all fairytales. Kondoleon explores the dangers inherent in the idea of prince charming and true love. It is the story of The Bride who seems to speak from different parts of her experience, from young…
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Session 5: Dontcha Wanna Be Music, Like Shange? And We Get a Look Inside Foreman’s Head.
We began our readings by looking at “Boogie Woogie Landscapes” by Ntozake Shange. Shange called her works choreopoems and they are full of music, rhythm, and dance. The language is beautiful and poetic but the story revolves around a woman whose story is full of violent racism and the struggle to discover her own self…
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Session Four: We Answer Grotowski’s Call to Witness and Betsuyaku Accuses Us of Forgetting What We Saw.
In session four we started the readings with two plays by prolific Japanese playwright Betsuyaku Minoru. Always exciting to get away from the old Western dudes the theater in this country is dominated by. We read some of The Little Match Girl and “The Corpse With Feet.” Both plays explore how cultural traditions and expectations…
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Session Three: Do blogs require clever titles? If so, does Handke actually rhyme with Kennedy? And if so, can I use that somehow?
In session three we were were joined by some new participants. Joyous hooray! More minds and bodies makes for a better workshop all around. We read “Prophecy” and “Self-Accusation” by Peter Handke. Handke has some pretty radical ideas about what theater should be. In his early Sprechstucke or speak-ins he took everything away from the…