As I was not there on the week that we got to experience different practitioners workshops I did some extended research and asked people who were in the lesson what it was like to be in the workshop.
Grotowski
Polish
Born in Southern East Poland
11th August 1933 - 14th January 1999
He was a theatre director who innovated and changed theatre which has even left it's mark to, today.
Grotowski uses different and interesting rehearsal processes to enhance the actors skills and to make the performance more raw and interesting.
He is about being in the moment - making the performance raw - taking away all the props the lighting and everything that can block an actor from their true performance.
Grotowski is a fond believer in making sure that the actors raw talents and emotion are used. From what I gathered he would exhaust the actors into performing. The class ran around for about 50 minutes, running while touching their ankles - running with their arms our at their sides. Just making sure they are tiring out the mind. Grotowski believed that by tiring your self out it could enable you to concentrate souly on the emotions - it would strip the actor down to their bare materials.
Brook believes in intense emotions and feeling it internally - he thinks you should show it through your facial expressions and body language. After speaking to people who took part in the workshop I asked them what tasks that they did and how effective they were. The lovely Grace Chatsuwan told me that she went into a circle and once in the circle, counted 6 to her right and just watched them, noticing details about them. You then had to copy their movements and just watch them intensely. She told me that she found it useful as the circle developed this kind of ripple effect. I think that this exercise could be useful as we can understand what the audience see. Grace also mentioned the exercise of externalising emotions and she showed this by choosing a part of her body to show an emotion through - she chose her chest and the emotion of fear and used breath to express this idea.
From what I gather Brook is about feeling the emotions deeply and really externalising them to the audience so that they understand.
French
Born in 1896 - died in 1948
He was a dramatist, a poet, an actor and a theatre director.
Again Grace Chatsuwan gave me the information about what they did in their workshops to do with Artaud. So she told me that they played different emotions and increased the intensity of them all - she said that people when they got more intense started to laugh and even sing. She said that other people found it challenging to show the sad emotions - she said that people interpret it in many different ways which makes it more difficult to flow round the class.
Further in my blog I talk about different exercises to do with Artaud and how he affected our performance.
Brook
British
Born in Chiswick
21st March 1925 - present
Another theatre and film director who for many years worked in France.
Brook believes in intense emotions and feeling it internally - he thinks you should show it through your facial expressions and body language. After speaking to people who took part in the workshop I asked them what tasks that they did and how effective they were. The lovely Grace Chatsuwan told me that she went into a circle and once in the circle, counted 6 to her right and just watched them, noticing details about them. You then had to copy their movements and just watch them intensely. She told me that she found it useful as the circle developed this kind of ripple effect. I think that this exercise could be useful as we can understand what the audience see. Grace also mentioned the exercise of externalising emotions and she showed this by choosing a part of her body to show an emotion through - she chose her chest and the emotion of fear and used breath to express this idea.
From what I gather Brook is about feeling the emotions deeply and really externalising them to the audience so that they understand.
Artaud
Born in 1896 - died in 1948
He was a dramatist, a poet, an actor and a theatre director.
Again Grace Chatsuwan gave me the information about what they did in their workshops to do with Artaud. So she told me that they played different emotions and increased the intensity of them all - she said that people when they got more intense started to laugh and even sing. She said that other people found it challenging to show the sad emotions - she said that people interpret it in many different ways which makes it more difficult to flow round the class.
Further in my blog I talk about different exercises to do with Artaud and how he affected our performance.
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