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Madness And Method: Improvisation In The Theatre Of The Eighth Day, Lech Raczak
Madness And Method: Improvisation In The Theatre Of The Eighth Day, Lech Raczak
Mime Journal
Lech Raczak, the director of the Theatre of the Eighth Day for twenty-five years, describes the method of physical improvisation derived from Jerzy Grotowski that the troupe used to create productions. The Eighth Day used Grotowski’s methods to create productions that were very different in tone and content from those that Grotowski’s Laboratory Theatre created. They became famous for their stance of opposition to the Communist regime.
Actor Training And Techniques In Pieśń Kozła Theatre, Anna Zubrzycki
Actor Training And Techniques In Pieśń Kozła Theatre, Anna Zubrzycki
Mime Journal
Anna Zubrzycki, one of the founders of the Pieśń Kozła (Song of the Goat) Theatre, describes the working methods of the theatre, which seeks to develop the the actor’s tools—text, song, rhythm, physicality, spatial relations—and to help actors coordinate those tools with each other and with the text through physical and vocal exercises. They also work on the actors’ ability to respond to each other’s impulses in a physical way. Zubrzycki also describes five of the productions that Song of the Goat has created using this physical/vocal method of creation.
Jerzy Grotowski In Copenhagen: Three Encounters With The Sage, Juliusz Tyszka
Jerzy Grotowski In Copenhagen: Three Encounters With The Sage, Juliusz Tyszka
Mime Journal
Juliusz Tyszka describes Jerzy Grotowski’s three appearances at the the Tenth Session of the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA), which took place in Copenhagen, May 3–8, 1996. Grotowski describes various key concepts in his work. He also relates the early stages of both his life and his work with the Laboratory Theatre to the work he was doing in the 1990s at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards in Pontedera, Italy.