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A polish theatre director and theorist. the poor theater     Small groups of actors     Experimented with the physical and spiritual and ritualistic     Peeper building rooms instead of mainstream theatre with traditional stages. Physical movement      Very important in theatre look       The actors should the physical movement with their thoughts . Human contact    Believe in true contact between human beings.    He wanted actors to be more aware of the impact they had on people. He always goes for the simplest setting of theater and stage, so that the actors could have their own movements and creative thinkings. Emphasis the use of emotional memory.

Time: Post WWII Fictions Existentialism: existence has no meaning, no logic, irrational, and silence. This absurd means to take man’s reaction to a world apparently without meaning. Comedy and Tragedy              People found entertainment from Tragedy.              Repetitive and meaningless actions.              Shaped by political turmoil. Samuel Beckett Irish novelist, theatre director. Poet, and literary translator.        Example: Waiting for Godot                         -full of negative energy stuff and conversations                         -depression                         -wrote in French in 1948                   ...

Avant-garde French playwrite, essayist, and theorist. Had problems with drug throughout his life. “Theater of Cruelty” Theater as “organized anarchy”           Verbal incantations            Groans and screams            Pulsating lighting effects            Oversized stage puppets and props           He thought gestures and movements were more powerful than text.

Peter Brook Education: Oxford University Born in London, Britain Worked at The Royal Shakespeare Company and directed some of Shakespeare’s plays. EX. Mid-summer night dreams - “Common Sense” -“ A really good actor is all that’s need for a Shakespeare’s play.” - Neither more poetic or more natural. Depends on Actor’s own  sensitive perception and thoughts. -Simplicity is desirable as long as the audience get what you could generally perceive. -wrote The Empty Space Four types of theaters 1. The Deadly: Constructivism and old practices of doing things will no longer do. 2. The Holy: expose reality by creating abstract scenes. 3. The Rough: dramatic scenes challenge simplified thoughts. 4. The immediate: Clean state made by audience. Creation if International Centre of Theatre Research (founded in 1974) King Lear, Lord of the Flies (films directed)

The two general aspects that we have covered in our IB Theater Class HL were staging of theater and the crucial elements and states of theater. To talk about staging first, the stage of the theater could be categorized into three different types and a stage could also be divided into nine specific sections.  First, theater itself could be a Proscenium stage, which actors perform on the stage that is directly in front of the audience. And this is the most common form of stage. Secondly, another type of stage is called the Thrust stage, which extends into the audience. The third type of stage is called the Arena stage, which also has the name Theater in The Round. Arena stage is generally in a circle shape that audience sits around it. To take the Black Box theater we have at Cheshire Academy, it was arranged in a Proscenium stage structure last year in the play The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Also, although the Black Box theater is pretty small, it is flexible and the audience ar...

Theater is not only about stage, performance, projecting yourself, script, acting, rules, characters,  and stories, but theater is also a mother’s womb that bears revolutionary, hopeful, beautiful, and passionate lives. Many play directors, many actors, many actresses, many audiences have discovered other versions of themselves in theater. In my personal perspective, I see theater as my dreams, because in my dreams I could do everything and be anyone without giving excuses or worrying about other people’s thoughts and sights.  People have many ways to participate in theater and many ways to love theater. For example, being a technology group member or leader, performing as characters, being a director, or just watching. In my own perspective, performing is the most enjoyable part. While I am performing on stage, I could also get rid of the problems, concerns, work, and relationships outside of theater temporarily. Theater is a place for me to be “ healed” and to work hard at...

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