Nowadays, Jerzy Grotowski is well-known as one of the greatest directors in more modern theatre. He is most well-known for one particular type of theatre. This is called 'Poor theatre':
Poor theatre is usually performed in any bare space available. For example, it can be performed in a huge number of places- a hall, or a classroom or even outside in a large open space. Because of this, his techniques are rather attractive to students and school departments as it isn't necessary for a huge budget to be spent.
Typically, Grotowski preferred create performances and works in non-traditional spaces, such as abandoned rooms and buildings, rather than the more usual stage and playhouse environment. Moreover, he also used unusual staging types, and commonly placed the audience around the action or even within it.
Theory:
- Notable influences on Grotowski's work included Brecht and Stanislavski.
- Usually, a large amount of Grotowski's work focused on actor training.
- He was arguably known as the having the most intensive actor training after Stanislavski.
- All of theatre's excess is stripped away in poor theatre, and only the necessary is kept.
- Grotowski believed that theatre is never able to compete with film and television, so it should not attempt to.
- Few of the Poor theatre works actually made performance.
- Those that did were usually shown to only a small group of spectators, and were only ever shown once.
- Grotowski ended all public performances in 1975.
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