Sharon Gans

Sharon Gans

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Sharon Gans (born 1942 in New York City) is an American actress. Her only film was George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse Five as Billy Pilgrim's annoying wife. She and her husband, Alex Horn, ran the Theater of All Possibilities in San Francisco until 1978, when its doors were closed due to allegations of abuse. While the theatre did produce stage shows, its work was done by students of a group led by Sharon and Alex Horn, ostensibly based on the work of PD Ouspensky and GI Gurdjieff.

In October 1988, Sharon Gans directed the play ‘The Legend of Sharon Shashanovah,' presented by Good Omen Productions at the 47th Street Theater, New York, NY, written by Alex Horn, and including in its cast Michael Horn, see review posted in http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=940DE1DA1F30F93AA35753C1A96E948260

[edit] 1 Theater of Possibilities

Sharon (Gans) and her husband Alex Horn ran the "Theater of All Possibilities. But a scandal drove them out of town during 1978. The San Francisco Examiner ran an investigative report about the group titled "Strange School." The story ran the day before Christmas Eve 1978, after Sharon and Alex had already left San Francisco. They and a core group of devoted students eventually ended up in Manhattan and Boston. Former members of their school told shocking personal stories to reporters from the Chronicle. And their accounts about the Gans/Horn school included allegations of "brainwashing" and "violence."The "Theater of All Possibilities" like Gans current school, claimed to be based upon the precepts of Russian philosophers George Ivanovich Gurdieff and P.D. Ouspensky. A "theater" supposedly devoted not only to art, but also to "enlightenment." In December of 1978 the Gans/Horn Theater on Golden Gate in San Francisco closed its doors and they were never opened again. It seems Gans and Horn left town when they learned that police and social welfare investigators were interviewing their former students. Investigators were told about beatings, child neglect and large fees charged by the couple, which generated a huge income. Students said they paid hundreds and at times thousands of dollars in cash to Gans and Horn. They also talked about repeated "intimidation."Some former students were too afraid to come forward. However, others eventually shared their personal stories with a San Francisco police inspector, a juvenile court probation officer, a city social worker and Chronicle reporters. The allegations; Beatings by theater leaders if students didn't meet quotas regarding ticket sales. They typically sold tickets by soliciting people on the street. Beatings and fines for making noise backstage, for "whimpering" or falling asleep. Harassment of poor students to pay for classes. Arranged marriages. Pressured to have children. One member said, "We were expected to get pregnant, (and) Sharon was always haranguing the women to have babies." Couples ordered to separate and divorce. Neglect of small children when parents worked for the group. Police investigated an informal group child-care center after receiving reports of bruises and injuries concerning some of the children. A probation officer in Juvenile Court told The Chronicle that he and a police inspector made preliminary inquiries about the group's child-care arrangement. They said children were not properly cared for. Frederick Mindel an attorney representing Gans and Horn at the time refused to comment. No known formal complaints had been filed with Bay Area law enforcement at the time of the story. [1]

[edit] 2 References

1. ^ http://www.rickross.com/reference/theater/theater1.html

[edit] 3 External Links

http://www.davearcher.com/alex.html http://www.esotericfreedom.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_of_Friends


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