| Theatre Cinema: BodyConstitution |
 17 May Laboratory Theatre Space Admision fee Fri 17 May, 4pm The Body SpeaksDocumentary, introduced by Jaros³aw Fret Part I: “Plastiques”. Part II: “Corporals” 27’, 28’ Direction: John Musilli, production: CBS for Camera Three, 1975 Film in English with Polish subtitles This film is comprised of two television programmes featuring Laboratory Theatre actor Ryszard Cie¶lak and Margaret Croyden, host of Camera Three, a New York-based television show dedicated to the arts. Cie¶lak was asked to comment on excerpts from a documentary entitled Training at Teatr Laboratorium in Wroc³aw (1971), a film recording of actor training in Denmark, whose participants included two young Odin Teatret actors. The teacher/instructor was played by Ryszard Cie¶lak. The film has two 40-minute parts: the first focuses on plastiques, the second on corporals. A voice off camera reads excerpts from Jerzy Grotowski’s Exercises. Each programme begins with an interview with Ryszard Cie¶lak, in which the actor discusses the essence of the training at the Laboratory Theatre and the role it plays in the daily work of the actors and in the live creative process. The documentary made at the Odin Teatret demonstrates how elements of training become elements of improvisation. As part of BodyConstitution, practical seminar |