The Grotowski Source Book

Author : RICHARD SCHECHNER
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136167285
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grotowski Sourcebook written by RICHARD SCHECHNER and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowski's life and work. Edited by the two leading experts on Grotowski, the sourcebook features: *essays from the key performance theorists who worked with Grotowski, including Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, Jan Kott, Eric Bentley, Harold Clurman, and Charles Marowitz *writings which trace every phase of Grotowski's career from his 'theatre of production' to 'objective drama' and 'art as vehicle' *a wide-ranging collection of Grotowski's own writings, plus an interview with his closest collaborator and 'heir', Thomas Richards *an array of photographs documenting Grotowski and his followers in action *a historical-critical study of Grotowski by Richard Schechner.

Author : Jennifer Kumiega
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472572165
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Grotowski written by Jennifer Kumiega and published by . This book was released on with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, this is a reissue of the seminal text on the work of Jerzy Grotowski and Laboratory Theatre recognised as being one of the most influential and important studies of the Polish theatre practitioner. In 1984 Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre closed down after twenty-five years of ceaseless experimentation pushing at the boundaries of the nature of theatre. From tiny beginnings in provincial Poland, Grotowski's influence spread to Eurpoe and the United States, fuelled first by the international tours of his remarkable company and then by 'paratheatrical' participatory projects which attracted adherents all over the world. This study of his work remains one of the most important and thorough examinations of the history, theory, and post-theatre work of this most influential of theatre practitioners.

Author : James Slowiak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351174762
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jerzy Grotowski written by James Slowiak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowski’s work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissued, this book combines: ● an overview of Grotowski’s life and the distinct phases of his work ● an analysis of his key ideas ● a consideration of his role as director of the renowned Polish Laboratory Theatre ● a series of practical exercises offering an introduction to the principles underlying Grotowski’s working methods. As a first step towards critical understanding, and an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s student.

Author : Richard Drain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134864744
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook written by Richard Drain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners - directors, playwrights, performers and designers, from Jarry to Grotowski and Craig. These key texts span the twentieth century, from the onset of modernism to the present, providing direct access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating theatre the century has had to offer, as well as guidelines to its present most adventurous developments. Setting theory beside practice, these writings bring alive a number of vital and continuing concerns, each of which is given full scope in five sections which explore the Modernist, Political, Inner and Global dimensions of twentieth century theatre. Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook provides illuminationg perspectives on past history, and throws fresh light on the sources and development of theatre today. This sourcebook is not only an essential and versatile collection for students at all levels, but also directed numerous devised shows which have toured to theatres, schools, community centres and prisons.

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grotowski Source Book written by Richard Schechner and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virginie Magnat
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135081700
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance written by Virginie Magnat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first examination of women's foremost contributions to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural investigation of performance, this book complements and broadens existing literature by offering a more diverse and inclusive re-assessment of Grotowski's legacy, thereby probing its significance for contemporary performance practice and research. Although the particularly strenuous physical training emblematic of Grotowski's approach is not gender specific, it has historically been associated with a masculine conception of the performer incarnated by Ryszard Cieslak in The Constant Prince, thus overlooking the work of Rena Mirecka, Maja Komorowska, and Elizabeth Albahaca, to name only the leading women performers identified with the period of theatre productions. This book therefore redresses this imbalance by focusing on key women from different cultures and generations who share a direct connection to Grotowski's legacy while clearly asserting their artistic independence. These women actively participated in all phases of the Polish director’s practical research, and continue to play a vital role in today's transnational community of artists whose work reflects Grotowski's enduring influence. Grounding her inquiry in her embodied research and on-going collaboration with these artists, Magnat explores the interrelation of creativity, embodiment, agency, and spirituality within their performing and teaching. Building on current debates in performance studies, experimental ethnography, Indigenous research, global gender studies, and ecocriticism, the author maps out interconnections between these women's distinct artistic practices across the boundaries that once delineated Grotowski's theatrical and post-theatrical experiments. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Jerzy Grotowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136745866
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Poor Theatre written by Jerzy Grotowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1968, Jerzy Grotowski published his groundbreaking Towards a Poor Theatre, a record of the theatrical investigations conducted at his experimental theater in Poland. This classic work on acting and performance is now available once again. In his preface to the original edition, Peter Brook wrote: "Grotowski is unique. Why? Because no one else in the world, to my knowledge no one since Stanislavski, has investigated the nature of acting, its phenomenon, its meaning, the nature and science of its mental-physical-emotional processes as deeply as Grotowski." More recently, Richard Schechner has called Grotowski "one of the four great directors of Western theater." Jerzy Grotowski was born in Poland in 1933. In 1982 he moved to the United States and worked at the University of California. He later moved to Italy, where he continued his unique and intense theatrical investigation. He died in 1999"--Publisher description.

Author : Catharine Christof
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351854615
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski written by Catharine Christof and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritual, nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski’s work. It corrects the lacunae in both theatre studies and religious studies by examining the interaction between the two fields in his artistic output. The central argument of the text is that through an embodied and materialist approach to religion, developed in the work of Michel Foucault and religious studies scholar Manuel Vasquez, as well as a critical reading of the concepts of the New Age, a new understanding of Grotowski and religion can be developed. It is possible to show how Grotowski’s work articulated spiritual experience within the body; achieving a removal of spirituality from ecclesial authorities and relocating spiritual experience within the body of the performer. This is a unique analysis of one of the 20th Century’s most famous theatrical figures. As such, it is a vital reference for academics in both Religion and Theatre Studies that have an interest in the spiritual aspects of Grotowski’s work.

Author : Giuliano Campo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136972471
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work written by Giuliano Campo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski’s acting company, Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training. This book, constructed from conversations between Molik and author Giuliano Campo, provides a fascinating insight into the methodology of this practitioner and teacher, and focuses on his ‘Body Alphabet’ system for actors, allowing them to combine both voice and body in their preparatory process.

Author : Jerzy Grotowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780416146301
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Poor Theatre written by Jerzy Grotowski and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles by Jerzy Grotowski, interviews with him and other supplementary material presenting his method and training.