Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop

a program of the Manhattan Arts Center in Manhattan, Kansas

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 works.

No, Mother, the motion alone is not enough, I must hear the feet, however faint they fall

We have explored the inner workings of our minds with Kennedy’s trauma induced nightmares and Foreman’s epistemological escapades.

At least soon very soon we will get rid of our rat heads and rat voices in beams will say no more we are your lost Caesars.

We have had our faces turned towards the weight of history by Müller and our souls towards music by shange.

dontcha wanna be music/ dontcha wanna be music/ dontcha wanna

be daybreak & ease into fog/ a cosmic event like sound/ & rain

yah/like rain

We have walked. We have shaped. We have made sounds and rhythms together. We have been still together.

Probably I am resolving

probably I am resolving

Probably I am

We have made the everyday ritualistic and made our words like jazz, we have encountered each other as catalysts.

The rest is poetry who has the better teeth

the blood or the stone

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