Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop

a program of the Manhattan Arts Center in Manhattan, Kansas

Tag: Lee Breuer

  • 2014: Breuer

    2014: Breuer

  • -went back that time to look was the ruin – I assume you’re the same.- Session 4: Samuel Beckett & Lee Breuer

    -went back that time to look was the ruin – I assume you’re the same.- Session 4: Samuel Beckett & Lee Breuer

    In session four we finally got to one of my favorite vocal exercises, speaking like bells. We used the line from one of our later readings: “There is no sleep so deep I would not hear you there.” Megan led this one and she asked different groups in the room to speak like different kinds…

  • Let There Be Light

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Session 3: Lesson I Bleed and EAT YOUR HEART OUT DIMITRI TIOMKIN

    -by gwethalyn We began our post warm up movement in session three by making a couple of machines.  In this exercise each individual player makes a rhythmic sound and repeats a physical action to go with the sound, the machine is built by one person starting and everyone else adding on with their sound and…

  • 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…

  • anticipation

    Today I’ve been reading over old scripts and getting excited, made some more Wordle things. MXTW, beyond the solid satisfaction working with highly creative and dynamic teenagers, allows me to maintain a connection with that part of my past, and I really enjoy that bit of nostalgia. Also it allows me to be around other…