What is a theatre laboratory? Why a theatre laboratory?
This book tries to answer these questions focusing on the experiences and theories, the visions and the techniques, the differences and similarities of European theatre laboratories in the twentieth century. It studies in depth the Studios of Stanislavski and Meyerhold, the school of Decroux, the Teatr Laboratorium of Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen, as well as Eugenio Barba‘s Odin Teatret.
Theatre laboratories embody a theatre practice which defies the demands and fashions of the times, the usual ways of production and the...