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Session 4: al-Hakim and Akalaitis
by Gwethalyn In session 4 we knew we were going to lose several participants to a choir concert half way through the session, so we spent a little more time in the movement exercises before the readings than we usually…
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Session 3: Grotowski and Foreman
By Gwethalyn In the first part of session three we did a little of the exercise called lay/sit/stand, led by Chad. This is an exercise in which you can either be (you guessed it) laying, sitting, or standing, or moving…
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Session 2: Kokoschka & Brecht
By Gwethalyn We started session two with some vocal work. We used the surprisingly hard to articulate but truly tasty sentence: “Breathing dark things became clear to me.” Taken from one of our readings later in the day. We only…
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Session One: The Symbolists & The Futurists
by Gwethalyn The first few moments of the first session are always accompanied by a certain amount of incredulity from my unrelentingly skeptical brain. Is it really possible that we have all gathered here to do this work that I…
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It’s Workshop Time!
By Gwethalyn So it has come again, workshop time. The best time. I find myself once again engaged in two weeks of a surreal existence where my time is split between periods of extremely intense creative and artistic stimulation for…
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Schedule of Meetings
If you are uncertain about MXTW, then please feel free to come to one of our early sessions and try it out for yourself. If you are interested in participating, but already know you will have to miss some of…
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MHS Recruiting
Gweth and I had a great time talking and playing theater games at Manhattan High School today. It was wonderful to see all the kids: both familiar and new. Felix (as always) had something great to say about the workshop:…
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Recruiting
Gweth, Josh, Megan, Chad, and I met at the Manhattan Arts Center today to talk with kids who are interested in the workshop this year about recruitment and to play some MXTW games. We did a lot of the basic…