Tag: Mac Wellman
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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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Writing Week
The third week of the workshop marks a shift in the kind of work we do. No longer are we exploring our abilities and interests through exercises and reading. Instead, with our target story and author techniques chosen, it is time to begin creating. But just how do we start this new work? The writing…
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Session 5: Making Music
Megan called today’s rehearsal “the best day of the year” because we were scheduled to play Word Jazz–her favorite game. Every participant, past and present, could tell you their favorite exercise from the workshop if you asked them (mine is Quartets). But why do we get so excited for the same games over and over…
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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…