The three practitioners and their work

The three practitioners and their work 

Artaud the practitioner 

The theatre of cruelty and pain, cruelty means strictness , diligence , never giving up , irreversible. 

Artaud was mental ill and spend most of his life going in and out of hospital. He believes humanity does not change even to do with are back grounds, under the skin we are all the same and should be treating equally because everyone is the same. 

Artaud may idea was the idea of man being a savage, for example if the world toke away the rules that they have put into place , we will be free and become the true savages we were meant to be.He used theatre to show society's positives and negatives. 

Artaud is trying to show us how savage we truly are and how we need to embrace that  savageness we own and how to be pushed to the extreme to truly expose what we truly are like. Artaud wants to push the boundaries and think outside the box in a creative way through the idea of cruelty, pain and mental health. 

To Artaud words are not enough to show the story , therefore you need to push it to the extreme. Artaud believes that they are should express modern life and emotions. 

Total theatre - the heighten means of which we achieve things. He feels that modernised human beings have always chosen to start using their mind straight away instead of their body or an emotion. For example , we think oh I want to look good so I'll do this or this etc. 

Peter brook the practitioner 

Peter brook is very hard to define. He creates a very define type of theatre & talks about his 4 stages of theatre that he uses in his work. He strives to understand what theatre is and defining what different types of theatre can give and influence because of him being influenced by so many different types of theatre. Peter brook is influenced by Europe types of theatre as well as international types of theatre that he takes and uses to add to his type of theatre.

He does commercial theatre , which is drive by the need of theory and formulas ,repetition theatre. He is interested in the variety of audience and actors and their relationships and theatre that does not have that is known deadly theatre. Deadly theatre are like referred to things that are lost their artistic values and are just in it for the fame or money.  To be deadly doesn't mean it is dead , it is alive ,however, it is not alive in the right way. 

Brook the theories 

The categories of theatre 

- Deadly

- Holy 

- Rough 

- Immediate

Deadly theatre 

The one thing that is particularly depressions about deadly theatre is that it is pretty much alive and well. To be deadly doesn't mean it is dead, it is alive but in the wrong way. The fact that it is struggling along , however it contains one element of theatre , a theatre which is deadly but contains one aspect of hope. deadly theatre is about commercials , inner man , introspective, etc.

Holy theatre 

Holy they are is about giving expression & feeling to mans holy soul. Brooks believe that holy theatre is something that no one will be engaged with it because it doesn't speak to enough people. A theatre limited to its self, It is to narrow and to limited. No one tends to understands that type of theatre. 

Rough theatre 

It is the most vital theatrical form , it relates to political theatre , similar to Brecht techniques it aims to try change theatre in modern day. Rough theatre is popular theatre , a they are that doesn't happen in a formal they are building. It is the source of the Renaissance in theatre today. It is also known as the opposite of holy theatre, it is so popular theatre. 

Immediate theatre

Theatre when actors are living in the moment and are In touch with their own creative. Actors are constantly in the moment as middians , translating feelings and oppressions to the audience that are carried along in the moment. 

Jerzy Grotowski the practitioners

-Jerzy Grotowski is a theorist Theatre Director as well as a well know theatre practitioner. 

- He was born in south Poland,Rzeszow in August 1933.

- He was influenced by religious books , bible , karan etc

- He set up his polish company , called "the polish lab ". It suggest that his work is experimental theatre because the title refers to the experiments and lab work. 

- Theatre that was protraling real life on stage , nothing exciting is what his work came from . He believed more in theatre showing a form of theatre , instead of theatre showing a story. To them they wanted to crest theatre without characters but with just the actors and the stage. 

- He wanted to get rid off anything to do with the stage ,e.g. The lighting , props , costume, the set. 

- His style of theatre was extremely spiritual , they most likely lived together and lived as a type of people. His style of theatre was called Holy Theatre, poor theatre is about the actor getting back to truth of work, the live communion between actor , audience me space. 

- He wanted his characters to make sure that they are "being in the moment" , to feel that emotion as they perform it and it's not a rehearsed feeling but something that takes you out of what you are thinking about.

- he believed the relationship between the audience and actor was the key in the rebate because he believed that the actor would be able to change the audience, so they can have a moment of revelation(he called it self penetration) .