In 1938, the House of Representatives established the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) at which numerous public figures were grilled about their suspected subversive communist ties and activities. Most famous was the “Hollywood Ten”, a…
grotowski.net is a comprehensive research website about the life and work of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), maintained by the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw. Today, Grotowski is regarded as one of the most influential figures of 20th century…
German theatre director Erwin Piscator (1893-1966) may not have been the first person to use projected images or film in stage plays, but he was certainly a pioneer in this area and one of the first to…
Below are diagrams outlining the performance space and actor-audience relationship for three 20th century non-naturalistic theatre styles: Jerzy Grotowski’s Poor Theatre, Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre, and Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty. Grotowski’s Poor Theatre was performed…
