Grotowski In Lessons

Jersey grotowski was describes as an enigma in the way that he was very different from what was considered your 'normal' practitioner. He had many different beliefs when it came to theatre band what would make an actors most effective. One technique he believed in was tiring out his actors physically to make them more vulnerable mentally when it came to characterization. We replicated this in class by taking part in a workshop that was designed to make us physically exhausted.


When my teacher made me run I immediately had the thought that i am sure most of my class had. "What is the point", "That's long" or "I cannot be bothered". But after running and repeating the majority of the weeks we did the workshop and I could feel the change of the energy in the room from before we started running to after, furthermore instead of focusing on feeling self conscious or not participating 100%, I focused on how it was making me feel and i found that when we started to work in lesson i was more stimulated and focused, and also able to access my emotion easier. Overall i think that my initial reaction is normal to having to run but i do believe the exercise was very effective.