MUS 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jerzy Grotowski, Pentheus, Judith Malina
18 Jun 2018
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1. Environmental Theater- moving plays out of the theater. Instead of making a set, make
an environment or use the real world where it can be a little more dangerous
a. Jerzy Grotowski was the founder of the Polish Laboratory Theatre
a.i. Finding the proper spectator-actor relationship
a.ii. Believe in a “poor theater” that says all you need is an actor and an
audience in a bare space. You don’t need anything else if you’re a good
playwright
a.iii. “Holy theater” performance became a semi-religious act. Actor goes
through a psycho-religious experience pg 59 to bring theater back to its
roots
a.iii.1. Bacchae- the women who follow dionysis. Dionysis has a
first cousin whos name is pentheus. He makes his aunt agave kill
pentheus(full of grief) because he said his father wasnt a god. The
used a real human skull
b. Peter Brook
c. Julian Beack and Judith Malina: The Living Theater
c.i. The Connection by Jack Gellber was one of the earliest productions
c.ii. Aim was to increase conscious awareness, stress the sacredness of life
and to break down walls
c.iii. Naked plays
c.iv. Dionysis and the 69
d. Arian Mnouchkine: Theatre du Soleil
d.i. An old ammunition factory, political and war theater group, took their stly
ofacting from world theater
d.ii. Famous for production alled Les Atrides
e. Peter Schumann The Bread and Puppet Theatre
f. Bernard-Marie Koltes
f.i. In the loneliness of the cotton fields
f.i.1. Two characters: a seller and a buyer
f.i.2. Doe in grand central station kind of like a flash mob to
make it real as possible
g. Max Reinhart
g.i. Built a hill with real dirt for midsummer nights dream
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Document Summary
Environmental theater- moving plays out of the theater. Instead of making a set, make an environment or use the real world where it can be a little more dangerous: jerzy grotowski was the founder of the polish laboratory theatre a. i. a. ii. a. iii. Believe in a poor theater that says all you need is an actor and an audience in a bare space. You don"t need anything else if you"re a good playwright. Actor goes through a psycho-religious experience pg 59 to bring theater back to its roots a. iii. 1. Dionysis has a first cousin whos name is pentheus. He makes his aunt agave kill pentheus(full of grief) because he said his father wasnt a god. The used a real human skull: peter brook, julian beack and judith malina: the living theater c. i. c. ii. c. iii. c. iv. The connection by jack gellber was one of the earliest productions.
