Lesson On The Three Practioners

Artaud the practitioner 

In the workshop on Artaud we played a game to help us get into the savageness of Artaud methods and to try get more out of our own comfort zone & go beyond what we will normal do to keep us on a creative mind set. We used his method of savageness to show a emotion of joy/happiness,sad,angry & excitement. The aim of the game is so show the emotion selected for example, happy , however, you had to make sure you were seen to be more happy than the person before you. This was challenging at first because we realised that we had to work as a team and build up the emotion from the beginning to the very end, moreover, Artaud uses workshops like this to help the actors/performer to work more and become stronger as a Theatre company.

Artaud methods are effective because they teaches us that it is not all about how you look while doing theatre but it is truly about how you feel and that is what will truly make a good and effective type of theatre to be watched. 

Peter brook the practitioner 

In the workshop on Peter brook we played a game with emotions, in which 5 people in the class go to one side of the classroom and the rest of the class goes to the other side and sits down and watches them. Then the 5 people chose a emotion to present and a body part to show it in and then they make sure the rest of their body is neutral and relaxed except for that one body part showing an emotion, for example,I chose the emotion anger and showed this in my hand by rubbing them together and constantly showing a fist and then the class guessed anger because they saw that is the only part of my body not flowing with the rest of it. This game was effective because it helps us as actors to use more physical movements to show emotion , instead of saying how we feel , we can show it, therefore, making our work more creative and intriguing to watch.




Grotowski the practitioners

In the workshop on the Grotowski we ran around the football field & beside outside theatre block because Grotowski main methods in theatre is to wear out his actors in the rehearsals because it helps them to become focused and for actors to bring out Untapped emotions. After we did this we talked about how we felt and surprisingly I felt very calm and at peace with my self as-well as the people around me. Grotowski does this technique to help his actors forget about the world they come from and everything about them, resulting into them only caring about and concentrating on the work that they are doing at hand. As an actor i think this is a very effective technique because after doing the exercise it go me very calm and ready to work on what we were planing to do in the lesson.  

The task of us running around was very relevant because it was a key ideal of Grotowski to make his actors tired to make them , emotional connected. This was effective because after I finished running around I felt very emotional drained and this made to feel certain emotions for different exercises, for example, we walk around as a characters and it was easier for me to show the certain emotions of the character after doing Grotowski's theatrical exercises we did.