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Poor Theatre
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"Yes, the poor theatre, the bare theatre, after all that which is not theatre itself. You can say that, what is the rest? There remains only the living man, the living man, that is the actor, who can transform himself for the others, the witnesses, and who can find a sort of relationship with these others, with the spectators. In the end all that is being done now, is the naked man, this actor. All that can occur at the same time, music, sculpture, scenery, all that...In the actor, in his body, there is the entire theatre, you can say but against the dreams about total theatre, that is, the total theatre through the total actor."
Growtowski believed in his poor theatre as a way to highlight the relationship between the audience and the actor instead of highlighting all the additional effects in theatre.
Jerzy himself said:
Established by Grotowski in the 1960s and 1970s
- Facing and admitting that cinema works, and tv had an inevitable advatange over theatre, Grotowski, focused on the physical aspect of theatre and involved as less props, technology and possible. As a result, the actor's skills and relationship with the spectator grew in importance.
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Creation of Poor Theatre
Poor Theatre is defined as the performance style in which excess of theatrical perfomance (props, costumes,etc..), are taken away. It is caracterized, by focusing on the physical skill of the performer.
Poor Theatre
In reference to actor's skills, and theatrical elements in general, Grotowski took a very different approach on: space-actor-audience relationship, stagecraft, acting and characterization, etc...
Jerzy Grotowski
Initially, when an actor takes on the role of a character, they are opposed to each other. According to Growtowski, through the very laborious processes of rehersal, the actor learns to drop his guard and let the character get past the typical barriers that we put up every day. Upon opening oneself up, the character penetrates the actor and the actors body becomes a shell, a carraige for the character to be portrayed. The actor gives up all the things they'd normally hide on a regular day to the audience as a kind of gift.
The Total Act
The most important moment in a piece performed in the style of Growtowski is called the total act. This is the pinnacle moment of the actors performance when one "reveals your most personal and closely guarded experience. The total act is ‘the act of laying oneself bare, of tearing off the mask of daily life, of exteriorizing oneself…"