About Manuel on Stage
Manuel on Stage – variable play
"Manuel on Stage" is a self reflective project that follows a second cycle of my writing (of plays, prose and poems). The first cycle ended with Actueur, three small texts of « nor theatre » with which I have closed, as a matter of speech, the cycle of my "dramatic writing"; after which writing became, if I may say so, more instrumental to constitute a canvas for a series of thematic plays about erotism, death, power, or the notion of being a foreigner. With "Manuel on Stage" things "jump" this time in many different directions simultaneously. Including the possibility of "going back" through a sort of "manual (about how to be-come) on stage", using all the time all my previous plays and other texts but also any source that may be found interesting to bring this Manuel on Stage.
Manuel on Stage has as base material :
Reading of a text for the Theatre
Actueur
and all my other non-dramatic writing, as well as texts related to them. For intance : Manuals and theoretical texts about theatre and theatre play (Stanislavski, Strassberg, M. Tchekhov, P. Brook, etc.) Other theoretical texts about thought and language like Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and other writings: ; Le Mot et la Chose by W. V. O. Quine, etc. Other theoretical texts (Posmodernismo para principiantes by R. Appignanesi / Ch. Garratt, La théorie du bordel ambiant by R. Moreno). Texts about quantum physics and artificial intelligence (La société de l’esprit by M. Minski, Le cantique des quantiques by Pharabod, Ortoli, etc.). Etc.