Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop

a program of the Manhattan Arts Center in Manhattan, Kansas

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  • Session 7: Pineapple Umbrella, Ribbon Game, Move with Resistance

    Session 7: Pineapple Umbrella, Ribbon Game, Move with Resistance

    Session 7 was amazing. Gweth will have a nice thorough write up on it in the next couple days. It takes her a few hours to write those awesome indepth posts, and she’s not had a few hours to spare since we divided into small groups. Long story short: For session 7 we reviewed authors,…

  • Session 4: Slow Motion Race or Don’t Let the Puma Get You

    Session 4: Slow Motion Race or Don’t Let the Puma Get You

    So at the very end of session 4, Jim lead the classic favorite: slow motion race. You run as slow as you possibly can, while still giving the illusion of running. Since there were so many, we had to send them off in three groups.

  • Session 4: Kennedy’s Impossible Identities and Once Upon a Time with Kondoleon

    Session 4: Kennedy’s Impossible Identities and Once Upon a Time with Kondoleon

    In session 4 we finally got around to my all time favorite movement exercise: move on exhale. For more info on this exercise see my previous entry. It was clear this group benefited from the starting and stopping work last session, as their stillness and movement were precise from the very beginning. As always, the…

  • 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…

  • 2013 Target Stories

    1984 A Clockwork Orange A Midsummer Night’s Dream Alice in Wonderland Animal Farm Book of Job Book of Jonah Book of Revelation Brave New World Cain and Abel The Call of Cthulhu Candide Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Daniel Deronda David and Bathsheba Doctor Zhivago The Fall of the House of Usher The Giver The…

  • Fancy Web Brochure

    Fancy Web Brochure

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  • Now Taking Applications for 2013!!!

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  • a slow march towards the Inevitable

    Gweth is assembling the reader. There will be new stuff in it, and I am super excited. Fresh stuff for fresh minds! Jim and Annie and I will be recruiting in the Drama classes at MHS the Thursday after Spring Break. I need to update the fliers and brochures and get them printed.