Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Again, Sam) or his own film (Take the Money and Run), Allen fleshes out the jittery image of Everymanic-depressive. Inanimate objects become his sworn enemies, paranoia reigns and everyone becomes a Woody worshiper. But Don't Drink the Water is minus the man-as adapter and actor-and the result is the lesser half of a situation comedy...
...audience soon caught on when one actor was forced to retrieve a liquor bot-tle, which had been used in a previous play, and pour it on the now very visible clouds of smoke. The play struggled on from that point but the fire was never fully extinguished until after the play had finished...
Amazingly enough, Moss accomplishes not only the easy part of the job-removing all the stage's physical accessories-but much of the hard part-actor-audience communion-as well. And in doing that, he makes a powerful case for the validity of an ideal Grotowski theatre...
...essay, "Towards a Poor Theatre," Grotowski calls for a theatre devoid of theatrical apparatus and full of human contact. That means the replacement of sets, costumes, lighting, and make-up with a total emphasis on "the actor-spectator relationship of perpetual, direct, live' communion." Grotowski wants, of all things, to give the theatrical experience back to the people who are actually in the theatre when the performance takes place-that is, the actors and the audience, period. In such a "Pour Theatre." not only will the designers and stagehands be eliminated, but so will the playwright. Grotowski sees all theatrical...
...course. I'd like to use many of the same actors in my next production, which is to be Ibsen's Peer Gyat. What we have developed will be quite useful, since the conception involves every actor in the company playing different aspects of Peer. while at the same time once more denying the usual trappings of the play...