Tag: Jerzy Grotowski
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Session 3: The Task is Masks
I’ve realized that after today’s workshop, we are halfway through the reader! It’s always surprising to me just how quickly the workshop goes. But clearly, we are not stopping for anybody as we rolled through the day’s exercises with gusto and a new sense of focus. We began with an exercise in which the participants,…
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“HEY! DO YOU WANNA FEEL SO ENERGETIC!?”
It’s late. I’m editing photos. Brandon is here with me too, and he told me to make “a really bad gothic photo that is much too dark and grungy”. I was editing this one, so I used it, but I couldn’t make it look bad, but when I made it dark the colors got wonky,…
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Inadvertent Hillarity
While translating/phonetically spelling the Orphic Hymn to Thundering Zeus for the Growtoski gourp to poetentially use, I had a little too much fun with google translate. To replicate: 1. Paste this into Google Translate: Ζεῦ πάτερ, ὑψίδρομον πυραυγέα κόσμον ἐλαύνων, στράπτων αἰθερίου στεροπῆς πανυπέρτατον αἴγλην, παμμακάρων ἕδρανον θείαις βρονταῖσι τινάσσων, νάμασι παννεφέλοις στεροπὴν φλεγέθουσαν ναίθων·…
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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 Four: We Answer Grotowski’s Call to Witness and Betsuyaku Accuses Us of Forgetting What We Saw.
In session four we started the readings with two plays by prolific Japanese playwright Betsuyaku Minoru. Always exciting to get away from the old Western dudes the theater in this country is dominated by. We read some of The Little Match Girl and “The Corpse With Feet.” Both plays explore how cultural traditions and expectations…