Tag: Samuel Beckett
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-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…
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Session 4: The Motion Alone is Not Enough
In session four we got a little more deeply into some vocal work. We used a line from Beckett’s Footfalls: The motion alone is not enough. Get it? Anyway, the whole room saying “the motion alone is not enough” as though they were chainsaws was pretty interesting. When we asked them to say it as…
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What You Know & Who You Know
[slideshow] Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906. Federico de Madrazo de Ochoa, Portrait of Jean Cocteau, 1910-1912. Rudolf Schlichter, Portrait Bertolt Brecht, 1926. Damian Byrne, Beckett, 2007. Well I tried to find artwork of each of our playwrights this year and only succeeded with Stein, Cocteau, Brecht, and Beckett (there will be a whole…
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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…