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...Director Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Laboratory Theatre...
With his Three Sisters. Leland Moss takes some very large first steps (particularly considering he has had two months, not seven years, with his actors) toward achieving Grotowski's total "Poor Theatre...
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...
...plays in turn-of-the-century Russia. Method actors have trained us to think of Chekhov plays as having quiet, detailed surfaces under which internalized explosions almost imperceptively crupt. In Moss's Three Sisters, this now-standard approach to the playwright is turned inside out (and must be, since Grotowski's views on acting are in practice, if not purpose, almost diametrically opposed to Stanislavski...
...nervous systems almost every second they are on stage. No matter how self-enclosed you are upon arrival at the Loeb during the next two weeks, you simply will not be able to pass up Heineman and Bishop's "poor" gift of their uncovered hearts. As you'll discover, Grotowski is giving poverty a good name...