DRAM 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Jerzy Grotowski, Experimental Theatre, Meredith Monk
Document Summary
Actor brings the playwright"s characters to life and secures the vital connection to the audience. Designers create an environment for the actor"s presence. The director and the determination of style. Director integral to multiplicity of styles that followed realism. Stanislavsky definition of director one who interprets the playwright"s creation. Other collaborators definition of director primary creators of theatrical event. Maximize the expressive power of the actor"s total instrument. Uses voices and bodies to communicate heightened expression of human experience. Own studies of western acting styles and methods. Vocal and physical capacity to extraordinary limits. Strip away life-masks that they use to protect themselves. Actor training essential to grotowski"s own work as a director. Staging plays entirely different emphasis from realistic theatre. Theatre performances that explored myths and archetypal characters that relate to poland, theatre company or audience. Wwii for poland and presence of nazi concentration especially.
