Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop

a program of the Manhattan Arts Center in Manhattan, Kansas

Tag: Heiner Müller

  • MXTW 2018 is Starting Strong!

    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…

  • Session 3: Müller & Foreman

    Session 3: Müller & Foreman

    Most of the pictures are of Shape/Reshape in pairs, then quartets, then whole group shaping. We also played Crumple, Blossoming and Withering, and Quartets.

  • Teaser 2012

    Teaser 2012

  • Heiner Müller und Einsturende Neubauten

    Heiner Müller und Einsturende Neubauten

    As promised, albeit a bit late, here is a performance of Die Hamletmaschine (a play about Hamlet) by Heiner Müller as interpreted by Einsturzende Neubauten. And here is a pdf of an English translation of Müller’s text. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcyGD3M_TRs] Einstürzende Neubauten is a German industrial band that has been performing since 1980. One of their trademarks is…