Faust
Posted in Production Photos, Various MFA Projects on May 19th, 2009
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Posted in Various MFA Projects on May 19th, 2009
Grad school – year one. Directing projects: 32 Authors: 15 Actors: 80 Rehearsal spaces: 20 Shows seen: 41 Original scripts: 4 Total production budget: 0
“A benevolent psychopathology beckoned towards us, enshrined in the tens of thousands of vehicles moving down the highways, in the giant jetliners lifting over our heads, in the most humble machined structures and commercial laminates.” J.G. Ballard, Crash
Faust: Part 1
Posted in Announcements on May 6th, 2009
This Tuesday the Columbia MFA Directors are staging Goethe’s Faust: Part 1. Each director has a different segment of the text. Six directors. Six casts. One play. Zero budget. I am staging the opening scenes. Free admission. 8pm Schapiro Studio, 615 W 115th St.
“All these writers … require the spectator to become active co-writers of the (performance) texts. The spectators are no longer just filling in the predictable gaps in dramatic narrative but are asked to become active witnesses who reflect on their own meaning-making and who are also willing to tolerate gaps and suspend the assignment of [...]