Brecht, Artaud e Grotowski

JERZY GROTOWSKI Towards a poor theatre

Some Remarks On Sacred Cows: Revisiting Method Technique

Theater historians often speak of theories of acting (Carlson, 1983), although the term tends to shift in meaning across much of their commentary. Theories of broader sweep, as instanced in the writings of Grotowski, Brecht, Craig, Artaud, Chaikin, Lecoq, or Copeau involve alternative theatrical directions, and differ in scope from those about processes necessary for actors to achieve stage rea...

Reading Brecht and talking to the espresso: Electrophysiological investigations of conventional and novel metonymy

We present a series of three experiments on the comprehension of metonymy that sought to tease apart the role of contextual information and conventionality during the processing of expressions that require a transfer of meaning for proper interpretation. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants read or listened to sentences including metonymic expressions and liter...

lyrics in brecht's works

bertolt brecht composed poems, focusing on the political, social and economic situations of his time. this fact could also be seen in his plays. with this outlook brecht challenges the readers of his work with regard to the social problems of their time. doing so, the reader finds himself in a difficult task that tests his ability and skill to resolve the problems. the initial poems of brecht s...

Society of the Counter-Spectacle: Debord and the Theatre of the Situationists

This article examines the work of the Situationists and their leading member, Guy Debord, as it relates to theatre history and the history of the manifesto. The Situationists privileged the writing of manifestos over the production of art works in order to avoid the fate of the historical avant-garde, whose provocative art had been co-opted by the cultural establishment. Despite this pro-manife...