Tag: human membrane
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Staging Week
When creating a performance for the workshop, whether it be a small exercise or a scripted play, three important questions are asked: What will you say? How will you say it? And what will you do while saying it? With the completion of writing week, we have the first question answered. But the latter two…
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Session 6: Colliding Images
“It was a wordless world she gave me.” The participants started today’s session by disrupting everyday speaking patterns using this line from the Diane Glancy play we would be reading later. First, they tried manipulating the speed of the line: saying it as fast as they could, as slow as they could, and speeding up…
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the rupture of silence in the hollow of uncanniness. I will always remember these times. – Session 6: Mac Wellman and Young Jean Lee
This was the last of the sessions in which we read and discuss examples of experimental theater. I must admit that I am always just a little sad to see this day come. I love the creation process that follows, but these first few sessions that have no goal other than exploration and trying things…