Tag: Joan Schenkar
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2014: Schenkar
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the only gold is music seepin through fog – Or so we butchers always say. – Session 5: shange and Schenkar
I always love doing vocal work on the day we read Joan Schenkar’s The Universal Wolf. There are so many juicy lines to choose from. Today’s choice: “Every Pleasure has its Penalties.” We did some work on this one sounding like sweeping brooms. There were both corn brooms (that’s what they’re called, I looked it…
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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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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…
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Session 6: And They Lived Ever After: Kondoleon or They Were Brutally Deconstructed: Schenkar
We began the readings today with The Brides by Harry Kondoleon. The Brides doesn’t just critique one fairytale, it critiques all fairytales. Kondoleon explores the dangers inherent in the idea of prince charming and true love. It is the story of The Bride who seems to speak from different parts of her experience, from young…