Category: 2020
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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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A grinning face in the static forest
How the 2020 mask was made The mask for this year, like many years, went through a lot of different prototypes before arriving at it’s final form. I tried many different things, but won’t be sharing those, because we’ll probably use them as fodder for upcoming years. I kept trying this one mask based off…
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Experimental Experimenting
At some point in the middle of our time in isolation (don’t ask me for exact dates because I’m under the impression everything happened last week when it probably was two months ago) we came together to figure out how to move MXTW online this summer. Shortly after we started figuring out logistics we realized…
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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…