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    Meyerhold created theatre in Moscow under the Communist Party of the USSR and Stalin in the early 20th century. His productions used non-traditional staging that extended into the audience without walls between actors and spectators. His intense physical training methods connected actors' bodies and minds through biomechanics. Grotowski worked in post-WW2 Poland and used 'poor theatre' without lavish elements to focus on the skills of the actor alone. He emphasized muscle control and endurance in grueling training regimes intended to unify body and mind. Both sought to use theatre to express ideas beyond realism and widen audiences' emotional experiences.

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    Meyerhold created theatre in Moscow under the Communist Party of the USSR and Stalin in the early 20th century. His productions used non-traditional staging that extended into the audience without walls between actors and spectators. His intense physical training methods connected actors' bodies and minds through biomechanics. Grotowski worked in post-WW2 Poland and used 'poor theatre' without lavish elements to focus on the skills of the actor alone. He emphasized muscle control and endurance in grueling training regimes intended to unify body and mind. Both sought to use theatre to express ideas beyond realism and widen audiences' emotional experiences.

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    Meyerhold created theatre in Moscow under the Communist Party of the USSR and Stalin in the early 20th century. His productions used non-traditional staging that extended into the audience without walls between actors and spectators. His intense physical training methods connected actors' bodies and minds through biomechanics. Grotowski worked in post-WW2 Poland and used 'poor theatre' without lavish elements to focus on the skills of the actor alone. He emphasized muscle control and endurance in grueling training regimes intended to unify body and mind. Both sought to use theatre to express ideas beyond realism and widen audiences' emotional experiences.

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    Focus Area Meyerhold Grotowski

    Communist Party of the USSR Stalin


    Historical context. Moscow. Eventually arrested Poland
    and executed for his theatre in End of ww2
    - Where were they creating
    1940.
    theatre?
    - What political regime were
    they working under?

    Wanted the actors to connect Grotowski focused on muscle


    Actor training their body and brain. He control, endurance, and
    achieved this by using balance. The Actors would be
    - How did they train their
    Biomechanics. This included put through gruelling training
    actors? etudes (choreographed to build muscles and
    - What was involved in the movements that focus of eventually building up their
    balance and physical control. endurance. He believed that
    physical training?
    Meyerhold’s training was hard the mind and body must be
    on the actor as they were focused, connected, and
    required to prepare, react, and disciplined.
    act to all their movements.
    Curtainless set. Extended the He used ‘poor theatre’
    Staging of productions stage out into the audience. meaning he didn’t have lavish
    Kept the audience half lit costumes, extravagant sets.
    - Where did they stage
    Removed the imaginary wall His theatre relied on the actor
    productions? between stage and audience alone with basic props. He
    - What did they look like? by adding ramps that allowed would often perform in
    vehicles and stuff to move warehouses etc.
    (try and find a photo). between both. Painted
    backgrounds for set. Intricate
    machinery like treadmills, cat
    walks, trapeze, turning wheels.
    Comedia Dell’arte, Circus Acts Brecht, Stanislavsky,
    Influences and pantomime. He was Meyerhold.
    curious about the stock Grotowski took Meyerhold’s
    - What other theatre
    characters of Comedia as well musical side of theatre and
    practitioners influenced as the unrealistic approach to combined it with Stanislavsky’s
    them? this form of theatre. phycological form. Brecht was
    similar to Grotowski in the way
    - How?
    its theatre was used to make
    the audience think about
    world issues.
    Widen the emotional potential
    Purpose of Theatre of a theatre piece and express
    thoughts and ideas that could
    - What did Meyerhold and
    not be easily presented
    Grotowski believe is the through realism
    purpose of theatre.
    Important quote
    (find an important quote by
    both Meyerhold and
    Grotowski)

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