Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop

a program of the Manhattan Arts Center in Manhattan, Kansas

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  • Session 3: The World in Handke’s Words and Pinter’s Uncovering of the Nakedness We Try to Hide With Words.

    Session 3: The World in Handke’s Words and Pinter’s Uncovering of the Nakedness We Try to Hide With Words.

    We began session 3 with some simple starting and stopping. It seems like such an obvious thing, we can’t live our lives with out starting and stopping hundreds of times a day, we do it so often it becomes automatic, something we are often unaware of.  JoAnne Akalaitis says theater is all about stopping and…

  • Day 1, Part 1: Gertrude Stein

    First session was excellent. The directors are all VERY impressed with this group of participants. They are wicked smart, have excellent critical thinking skills, and are great movers; their parents and teachers should be very proud. What follows is a kind of synopsis of what we went over in the readings that day: Gertrude Stein…

  • 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…