Tag: Gertrude Stein
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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…
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Let There Be Light
by Gwethalyn Today we had the tech sessions for four of the small group pieces. In these sessions we set the light cues and get to do a run through with lights, so the tech crew can get their cues down. This session, where the performers get to perform in the stage lights for the…
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Stein and Breuer group
Well I woke up an hour before I needed to this morning and in order to keep myself awake, I decided to bake some scones (I also have entirely too much heavy wipping cream in my fridge, and scone making uses up a cup of cream). So my Stein group, who all wrote a lot of nice…
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Svenska är kul.
I just finished all the typing for my Stein group that I’m co-directing with Josh. So much good material, but I look forward to cutting it down into a good size and organizing it on Sunday with Stein group. Also I got to translate a bunch of Swedish, which made me really happy, because it’s…
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Breuer and Stein
I got a crazy good workout these past two days from set building. Monday was 9-4 and Tuesday was 9-2. Everything is built except the short ladders to the ramp between the audience. [I’ll take pictures tomorrow.] Chad and I met at 1 with Barbara and Mercedes to have Breuer small group meeting. It was…
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Back from the Underworld
Today we picked the Target Story and it’s ORPHEUS! So much fodder! This story makes a most excellent target story: Tragic love A trip to the underworld Maenads Small groups are Churchill, Schenkar, Stein, Breuer, and Open Theater. Large groups are to be decided by the directors at 9am tomorrow at Bluestem Bistro. I look…
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Day 1, Part 1: Gertrude Stein
First session was excellent. The directors are all VERY impressed with this group of participants. They are wicked smart, have excellent critical thinking skills, and are great movers; their parents and teachers should be very proud. What follows is a kind of synopsis of what we went over in the readings that day: Gertrude Stein…
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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…