Tag: Bertolt Brecht
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Session 2: Brecht and the provability of any and every contention and forcing humanity through a sieve with Grotowski.
Session two started well, we had lost a few people but gained some new folks who couldn’t attend day one. We tried red ball again with much the same chaotic results, until one of the participants asked if we could try it whispering. Brilliant suggestion, the magic happened again, once they had a limitation to…
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2013 Reader
Jean Cocteau: Wedding on the Eiffel Tower Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes: The Mute Canary Tristan Tzara: The First Celestial Adventure of Mr. Antipyrine, Fire Extinguisher Bertoldt Brecht: The Elephant Calf Jerzy Grotowski: Akropolis Peter Handke: Self Accusation and Prophecy Harold Pinter: Landscape, Silence, and Night Adrienne Kennedy: A Rat’s Mass and Lesson in a Dead Language Harry Kondoleon: The Brides Maria Irene Fornes: The Danube Suzan Lori Parks: The…
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Session 2: Kokoschka & Brecht
By Gwethalyn We started session two with some vocal work. We used the surprisingly hard to articulate but truly tasty sentence: “Breathing dark things became clear to me.” Taken from one of our readings later in the day. We only did about ten minutes of work with this sentence, but by the end it was…
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Session 2, Part 1: Bertolt Brecht
Played Red Ball, A/B shaping, and Move on Exhale. Explained target stories and I was chomping at the bit to take suggestions, but we were only explaining the concept today. Next time, I’ll be ready though. Read Brecht and Open Theater. I think Gweth will post about Open Theater later, but I presented Brecht. Bertolt…
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What You Know & Who You Know
[slideshow] Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906. Federico de Madrazo de Ochoa, Portrait of Jean Cocteau, 1910-1912. Rudolf Schlichter, Portrait Bertolt Brecht, 1926. Damian Byrne, Beckett, 2007. Well I tried to find artwork of each of our playwrights this year and only succeeded with Stein, Cocteau, Brecht, and Beckett (there will be a whole…
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The Reader for 2011
Jean Cocteau Wedding on the Eiffel Tower Gertrude Stein Turkey and Bones and Eating and We Liked It Every Afternoon Not slightly Bertolt Brecht Der Jasager; Der Neinsager (He Who says Yes/He Who Says No) Jean-Claude van Itallie / Open Theater The Serpent Adrienne Kennedy A Rat’s Mass Lesson in a Dead Language Samuel Beckett…