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Madness And Method: Improvisation In The Theatre Of The Eighth Day, Lech Raczak Jul 2014

Madness And Method: Improvisation In The Theatre Of The Eighth Day, Lech Raczak

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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.

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Challenge, Chaos, And Collaboration: Two Weeks With Studium Teatralne, Katharine Noon Jul 2014

Challenge, Chaos, And Collaboration: Two Weeks With Studium Teatralne, Katharine Noon

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Katharine Noon, the artistic director of the Ghost Road Company, a Los Angeles theatre troupe, describes Ghost Road’s collaboration with Studium Teatralne, a Warsaw theatre company headed by Piotr Borowski, a former collaborator with Jerzy Grotowski at the Workcenter. Borowski and the Studium Teatralne actors work in a more athletic physical way than the American actors typically do, and the Americans learned this method from the Warsaw actors. The Warsaw group also gained from the collaboration, however: Ghost Road hosted them when they came to Los Angeles to perform, and they also learned Ghost Road’s methods for adapting texts.

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