Word: poorly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard's varsity squash team is out for revenge this year, and the object of its redirected hostilities will be poor, undeserving Cornell this afternoon at 2 p.m. on the Hemenway courts...
With his Three Sisters. Leland Moss takes some very large first steps (particularly considering he has had two months, not seven years, with his actors) toward achieving Grotowski's total "Poor Theatre...
...essay, "Towards a Poor Theatre," Grotowski calls for a theatre devoid of theatrical apparatus and full of human contact. That means the replacement of sets, costumes, lighting, and make-up with a total emphasis on "the actor-spectator relationship of perpetual, direct, live' communion." Grotowski wants, of all things, to give the theatrical experience back to the people who are actually in the theatre when the performance takes place-that is, the actors and the audience, period. In such a "Pour Theatre." not only will the designers and stagehands be eliminated, but so will the playwright. Grotowski sees all theatrical...
...course, there is a place for both the "Poor" and "Rich" theatre in the scheme of things. And besides, very little theatre is purely "Rich" or purely "Poor" anyhow. A total "Poor Theatre" may even be an impossible or unnecessary achievement. While many critics feel Grotowski has achieved his goal with his own troupe (a group of actors he trained for seven years). others (notably Walter Kerr) shy away doubting whether Grotowski? ideas should eve be pushed to their ultimate, gut-level extreme...
...This summer I was acting with the Harvard Summer School Repertory Theatre, and the director of Death of a Salesman (William Kinsolving) brought in a copy of jerzy Grotowski's book, Towards a Poor Theatre. I read it and a whole new world opened...