Grotowski´s Poor Theatre: An Experiment in Theatre

Dr. Bipin Chandra Uniyal,

doi:10.24113/ijellh.v7i12.10240

Abstract

This research paper is about Grotowski´s poor theatre. Before Grotowski´s there were many theatre, but these theatre were not suitable for Grotowski´s purpose. Before Grotowski´s theatre there were Schechner´s Environmental theatre, Stainslavaski´s Experimental theatre, Meyerhold´s Avant-grade theatre, Alexander Tiraov´s Kamerney theatre, Brecht´s Epic theatre, Judith Malina and Tulian Beck´s Living theatre, Bread and Puppet theatre by Peter Schumana. During the 1960´s a voice of deploration came by a number of persons, who demanded the abandonment of every element of the theatre borrowed from other media and not really required. This leading exponent was Jerzy Grotowski´s Poor theatre.

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Grotowski:Jerzy Grotowski was director of Polish Laboratory Theatre
Actor should be illuminate though the personal technique, should become a source of spiritual light. ́’ We abandoned make-up, fake noses, pillow- stuffed bellies- everything that the actor puts on in the dressing room before performance
For Artand Balinese performance was like a crystal ball for a fortune – teller. ́’ It is the true lesson of the sacred theatre; whether we speak of the medieval European drama, the Balinese, or the Indian Kathakali; this knowledge that spontaneity and discipline far from weakening each other, mutually reinforces themselves, that what is elementary feeds what is constructed and vice versa, to become the real source of a kind of acting that glows. (11)

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Grotowski invented a theatre and called it apoor theatrebecause he sought to eliminate all technological aids and to concentrate on the two indispensable elements: the actor and the audience. Jerzy Grotowski was the chief of Polish theatre laboratory. Artand did not follow to that theatre which was based on the dramatic text, he opposed and said that theatre should be a creative. ́’ Actor should be like martyrs burnt alive, still signalling to us from their stakes.’ ́ (12) Artand was a great theatre poet, a man of dramatic literature.

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