Word: grotowski
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...fact that the actors give, because their power of giving was immense. It was irresistible; I think even the dead would have to respond. And the actors' dedication to giving is here because of the theories director Moss has used for guidance in his show-those of Jerzy Grotowski. she now-famous mentor of the Polish Laboratory 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, there is a place for both the "Poor" and "Rich" theatre in the scheme of things. And besides, very little theatre is purely "Rich" or purely "Poor" anyhow. A total "Poor Theatre" may even be an impossible or unnecessary achievement. While many critics feel Grotowski has achieved his goal with his own troupe (a group of actors he trained for seven years). others (notably Walter Kerr) shy away doubting whether Grotowski? ideas should eve be pushed to their ultimate, gut-level extreme...
...only in a church. Really, someone should invent a new word because both "religious" and "holy" are filled with so many old-fashioned and negative contexts today; to watch Grotowski's company is certainly a strenuous mystical and personal experience. It is a process of searching, and it demands an audience that is not a money clite nor a cultural clite, but an elite of people who are searching for ways to understand themselves and others...
...could say that this form of theatre is inherently involved with the Youth Movement and the "Aquarian Age." The total concentration of Grotowski's individual actors while becoming one with themselves and with their audiences is essentially a giving thing. The actors, by concentrating so completely on their own existence, end up by giving themselves to the observers...