Tag: Open Theater
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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 4: Problems and Solutions
Today we temporarily moved from our usual rehearsal space to the JNT Company office space. A little disoriented, but ready to keep learning, we started our session by exploring our new space. How is the size and shape of the room different? How is the sound different? How does the concrete floor feel on bare…
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Session 2: Kennedy & Open Theater
At the beginning of Session 2 after stretches and breathing exercises we played a good game of Red Ball. Several of the objects transformed (ex. Black Bat became Black Goat), but at least we didn’t lose any. We focused on movement exercises: shaping and reshaping, walking with various qualities, and Cara lead stopping and starting.…
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2014 Final Pics: Opening Piece
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The Judgement of Your Life is Your Life. Brother And Sister Rat We Are. – Session 3: Open Theater & Adrienne Kennedy
We started session three off with some explorations of vocal techniques that can be used to disrupt our natural ways of speaking – a handy tool for our toolbox indeed. We played around with changes in speed, unusual emphasis, and my personal favorite, the unconcealed breath. Then we worked on creating some soundscapes together. We…
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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…
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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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Session 2, part 2: Open Theater’s Images, Our Images
-by gwethalyn We began our reading of The Open Theater’s “ceremony” The Serpent by reading a scene titled “Kennedy-King Assassination.” In the scene four actors visually recreate the figures in the convertible from the iconic video clip of JFK’s assassination, the rest of the actors are bystanders although one stands aside miming the act of…