THE MAGIC THEATER WORKSHOP/MORE DETAILS
by Jon Rappoport
Below you’ll find the basic details on the workshop. For those of you who’ve contacted me already expressing interest, I urge you to register and pay as soon as you can. I’m going to keep the group to a manageable size, and once we reach the limit, that will be it.
There are several hotels and inns in the Carlsbad area. I’m recommending the Holiday Inn, which has reasonable room rates and also will have a free shuttle to take attendees back and forth from the workshop—for those of you who aren’t renting cars while you’re in San Diego. (Holiday Inn: 800-266-7880)
I can now tell you more about the lineup of events.
In the Saturday session, I’ll explain how the actual dialogues work. People will be paired off in those dialogues, most of which will be done simultaneously, so everybody is working at once and we get in as much time as possible on it.
After the explanation, I will team up with an attendee and do a short demonstration of a dialogue in action, and then answer questions.
We’ll do a few warm-up energy exercises and then move into the dialogues. After each dialogue, people will have time to comment about their experiences and ask questions.
Doing the dialogues will increasingly familiarize you with how it all works.
The entire Saturday session will be taken up with dialogues—and I’ll comment as necessary, as we go along. What I say and how long I take saying it will depend on my ongoing observation of the dialogues in progress.
The Sunday session will also contain dialogues, and I will give a short talk on how you can continue this work at home. I’ll also talk about the future of the Magic Theater and where I see it going.
Those of you who are coming with another person may, if you wish, do dialogues with that person during the workshop. It’s up to you. Once you register, we’ll figure that out before you come to San Diego.
I want to emphasize that this workshop is exploring territory that has never been approached in this way before. Psychodrama paved the way, and certainly, classes for actors have engaged in improvisation and “role playing,” but the Magic Theater takes these practices into new spaces—as you can well imagine, if you’ve been reading my articles on the subject.
Your commitment to the process, your adventurous spirit, your engagement with the dialogues themselves allow the breakthroughs to happen. We are mining new ground. There’s no limit to what can be achieved.
Here, again, is the workshop layout:
WHEN: Saturday and Sunday, December 10 and 11. Saturday—noon-7. Sunday—9:30 am-1pm.
WHERE: The Southern California Institute of Clinical Nutrition, Carlsbad, CA 92008. 5670 El Camino Real, Suite B. The Institute is about 30 minutes north of the San Diego airport.
Workshop Fee: $150.
To keep costs down, I haven’t opted for holding the seminar in a hotel.
To register for the seminar, contact me directly at qjrconsulting@gmail.com. Then pay the fee: go to PayPal, click on the “send money” button, enter qjrconsulting@gmail.com to get into my account, and fill out the information. You don’t need your own PayPal account to do this.
There is nothing about this workshop that has anything to do with “professional training” as an actor. Nor will there be any criticism of the dialogues. The whole idea is to get further into the roles and the dialogues. This is an ongoing process.
Once you sign up for the workshop, I’ll send you a confirming email. Of course, if you have any questions, I’m here to answer them.
I believe this will be an historic occasion—the launch of the Magic Theater. It’s been a long time coming. Over the years, I’ve had conversations about such an idea, and I’ve read hints and clues that other people have offered in this direction. But this is a firm beginning, a take-off into greater realms…
I hope you’ll be here.
Jon Rappoport