Category: 2014
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Late Night Painting Shenanigans
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the rupture of silence in the hollow of uncanniness. I will always remember these times. – Session 6: Mac Wellman and Young Jean Lee
This was the last of the sessions in which we read and discuss examples of experimental theater. I must admit that I am always just a little sad to see this day come. I love the creation process that follows, but these first few sessions that have no goal other than exploration and trying things…
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the only gold is music seepin through fog – Or so we butchers always say. – Session 5: shange and Schenkar
I always love doing vocal work on the day we read Joan Schenkar’s The Universal Wolf. There are so many juicy lines to choose from. Today’s choice: “Every Pleasure has its Penalties.” We did some work on this one sounding like sweeping brooms. There were both corn brooms (that’s what they’re called, I looked it…
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-went back that time to look was the ruin – I assume you’re the same.- Session 4: Samuel Beckett & Lee Breuer
In session four we finally got to one of my favorite vocal exercises, speaking like bells. We used the line from one of our later readings: “There is no sleep so deep I would not hear you there.” Megan led this one and she asked different groups in the room to speak like different kinds…
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Target Story 2014: Hamlet
Or as Gweth so eloquently put it: HAMLET H A M L E T HAMLET HAMLET H A M L E T HAMLET HAMLET H A M L E T HAMLET HAMLET H A M L E T HAMLET HAMLET H A M L E T HAMLET HAMLET H A M L E T HAMLET…
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The Judgement of Your Life is Your Life. Brother And Sister Rat We Are. – Session 3: Open Theater & Adrienne Kennedy
We started session three off with some explorations of vocal techniques that can be used to disrupt our natural ways of speaking – a handy tool for our toolbox indeed. We played around with changes in speed, unusual emphasis, and my personal favorite, the unconcealed breath. Then we worked on creating some soundscapes together. We…
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It’s Target Story Decision Day!
I’m up late editing photos and listening to my roommates play Minecraft. I’d be playing too, but MXTW takes priority. Super excited for you all to pick the target story for this year. You’ve all been sorted into groups which are way better than Harry Potter houses. I made a gif from Session 5. As…
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Bawds and Brandy Balls – Session 2: Antonin Artaud and Harold Pinter
Have you ever played the red ball game? It’s one of those name learning games that takes concentration and awareness. If you have, then you will know what I am talking about when I say it is utter chaos. This group did abysmally at this game at our first session. We lost the red ball…
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Not Slightly Mouths of Fire – Session 1: The Futurists and Gertrude Stein
My Experimental Theater cup really runneth over as we had 26 applicants before the first session. Thank you to all of our returning participants for helping spread the word and recruiting a great group of fresh faces for our workshop this year. As this year’s participants began to show up we swept the floor of…