Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: The Contemporary Experimental Theatre

It is impossible presently to estimate the value future theatre historians and critics will place on Jerzy Grotowski' s more recent experiments in such exotic areas as paratheatrics and theatre anthropology. Such experiments have broken drastically with traditional conceptions of Western theatre, and as a result there is presently no fully adequate vocabulary either to describe or to evaluate these works. Nonetheless, those who write in future about Grotowski will inevitably have to contend with his inherently difficult but strictly theatrical work with the Teatr Laboratorium. Such work developed, of course, in the period from the founding of the group in 1959 through the various transformations of Apocalypsis cum figuris during its thirteen years of performance (1968 to 1981). Clearly the most dominant and influential experiment'alist and theorist during the 1960s and early 1970s, Grotowski has been hailed by many of his contemporaries as the most significant twentieth-century theatrical figure since Stanislavsky. It remains to be seen whether such an estimate ultimately will be sustained, but it seems clear that Grotowski's prominence in the broad spectrum of twentieth-century theatrical history is assured.

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Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography

Carpenter¹

1994

Modern Drama

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1994 marks the beginning of the third decade of publication of Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography. The basic principles and limitations described in the June 1984 issue remain the same, as does its primary objective, which is to record current scholarship, criticism, and commentary that may prove valuable to students of dramatic literature and, to a lesser extent, of theatre history. The bibliography embraces all the expected areas and topics of modem world drama, including playwrights who lived past 1899 (plus Becque) and influential theatre figures other than performers. Reviews, reprinted books, unpublished theses, and graduate-student periodicals are generally excluded. The annual bibliography also serves as a supplement to Charles Carpenter's Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1966-1980: An International Bibliography (University of Toronto Press, 1986).

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