manhattan experimental theater workshop
high school students challenging popular mythology with avant-garde theater since 1988!
Session 2: Brecht and the provability of any and every contention and forcing humanity through a sieve with Grotowski.
Session two started well, we had lost a few people but gained some new folks who couldn’t attend day one. We tried red ball again with much the same chaotic … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
2013 Brochures
Can’t wait to visit MHS tomorrow with Jim and Annie!
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Snowmageddon or how we began to pop our heads out in the year 2013
Though it is February, all of us involved with MXTW are gearing up for another exciting year of busting personal space bubbles and expanding your minds like volatile gases. We’ll … Continue reading
