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Minus workshop 3 at EMC, or...

Minus workshop 3 at EMC, or...

Chenby and I when we went upstairs to the auditorium at the Ellen Melville Centre where we conduct the workshops were met by Potato and Cindy as last week, now joined by Nancy, Jung a third, whose name escapes me, the ladies from the Chinese Dance Group which uses the

Minus workshop 2: a tree imagines it's a tree

Minus workshop 2: a tree imagines it's a tree

As you can see from the title, where I intended to report on workshop 2, sorting out some problems of the imagination in relation to perception, I ended up writing something quite different. Two things, actually, one leading into the other, and the second coming back around into the first:

Minus—a theatre like no other—at & in collab with EMC: workshop 1 & HI (Human Imagination)

Minus—a theatre like no other—at & in collab with EMC: workshop 1 & HI (Human Imagination)

The imagination has ten commandments. They are written by Jan Švankmajer. You can read them here, at the bottom of this post, Mario Levrero’s unnecessary masterpiece The Luminous Novel: excerpts therefrom; the part about a terrifying experience; illustrated with images by Jan Švankmajer; his 10 Commandments follow. You will

The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman – his dark precursor to the work on the imagination

The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman – his dark precursor to the work on the imagination

You won't understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it's not about making things up, it's about perception. – p. 163 You won't understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it's not about making things up, it&

Introducing Minus Theatre 2025, by way of Alejandro Zambra, Not to Read

Introducing Minus Theatre 2025, by way of Alejandro Zambra, Not to Read

Alejandro Zambra is writing in 2011, this about Animales domésticos, a book by Alejandra Costamagna. Titled "This is Like a Story by Alejandra Costamagna," it is collected in his Not to Read, Fitzcarraldo editions, 2018, a kind of "literary autobiography" says his translator, Megan McDowell—a

Robert Wilson (4 October 1941 – 31 July 2025)

Robert Wilson (4 October 1941 – 31 July 2025)

VISIONARY ONE OF THE FEW OF WHOM IT CAN BE SAID OF THE FEW IT CAN BE SAD There follows a resource from Time Sensitive, Robert Wilson interviewed by Spencer Bailey. I like it but I wasn't looking for this. I was looking (and I would like to

MINUS

MINUS

THEATRE The Minus Theatre Group practices a unique form of theatre which is open to all levels of experience, does not require any special skills and does not require mastery of English: it is a theatre language minus the mastery of literature, minus the masters, a theatre language based in