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 smaller than it has been in years past. Two clumps of platforms in diagonal corners with plenty of open floor space in the middle. Audience seating on the two outer sides of the square we made. Hopefully someone will scan a set layout and post it for the visually inclined. I love the intimate feel. Basically we’re pulling everyone in close to the corner for story hour told from the top of a platform-jungle gym. This is all made better by MXTW’s adoring fans who appeared in abundance to help us build and eat donuts and pizza.
At the session it was Decision Day! Which at MXTW means we chose our target story (a text with presence and impact on our culture that we will explore through the stylistic lenses of avant guard playwrights). This year’s story is Aladdin by a landslide vote and we will work in the styles of Betsuyaku Minoru, Ntozake Shange and Harry Kondoleon. And I can tell you as an insider – it’s going to be AMAZING.
Then the directors had an official gravy meeting – an MXTW tradition that is as delicious and artery-clogging as it is time-honored.
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