Tag: Jean Cocteau
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Session 1: Pure Actor-Research
“I became twice as excited when I walked in here because the energy was so great!” Here is the remark of one new participant as we began the ritualistic process of introducing ourselves that comes with the start of any collaborative process. It made me reflect on what I felt like my first day of…
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Session One: Cocteau’s Microscope and the Logic of Dada
I must admit, I approached our initial meeting this year with great excitement but also a little trepidation. You see we’ve had a bit of an enrollment boom, to put it mildly. Last year we had 16 in the workshop, this year 30 people applied. Very exciting, to be sure, but a bit of a different…
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2013 Reader
Jean Cocteau: Wedding on the Eiffel Tower Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes: The Mute Canary Tristan Tzara: The First Celestial Adventure of Mr. Antipyrine, Fire Extinguisher Bertoldt Brecht: The Elephant Calf Jerzy Grotowski: Akropolis Peter Handke: Self Accusation and Prophecy Harold Pinter: Landscape, Silence, and Night Adrienne Kennedy: A Rat’s Mass and Lesson in a Dead Language Harry Kondoleon: The Brides Maria Irene Fornes: The Danube Suzan Lori Parks: The…
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Session 1, Part 2: Our swelling ranks and Cocteau.
by gwethalyn As we began our first session we were a very small group and I was worried that we would have the same problem which plagued us for the past three years, low enrollment. But as we have learned, this process does work with a very small group, so I mustered my optimism and…
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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…
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Session Two: Cocteau / Artaud Day! Has a Better Day Ever Existed?
First we read The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower by Jean Cocteau. In this spectacle Coceau was trying to reveal mundane life as absurd. Basically, a wedding party has lunch on the Eiffel Tower, but they are interrupted by hunters hunting ostriches, pompous guests giving speeches and telling tales of their times in Africa, mirages…