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‘Holy Theatre’ and Catharsis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Philip Auslander
Philip Auslander
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Philip Auslander is a member of the Drama Faculty, Residential College, University of Michigan.
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Theatre Research International , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , Spring 1984 , pp. 16 - 29
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1984

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References

Notes

1. Brook, Peter, The Empty Space (New York: Avon, 1969), p. 40.Google Scholar Subsequent references to all sources quoted more than once will be cited in the text.

2. The examples of ‘holy theatre’ mentioned by Brook are the work of Artaud, Grotowski, the Living Theatre, Samuel Beckett, and Merce Cunningham.

3. Innes, Christopher, Holy Theatre: Ritual and the Avant Garde (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1981), pp. 253–4.Google Scholar

4. My discussion of Aristotle follows Humphry House, Aristotle's Poetics (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958), pp. 100–11Google Scholar and Brunius, Teddy, Inspiration and Katharsis, Swedish Studies in Aesthetics, No. 3 (Uppsala: Uppsala Univ., 1966), pp. 55–9.Google Scholar Both use J. Burnet's translation of Aristotle.

5. Scheff, T. J., Catharsis in Healing, Ritual, and Drama (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press 1979) p. 13.Google Scholar

6. See Osborne, Harold, Aesthetics and Criticism (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1973), p. 108.Google Scholar

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10. Leigh, Barbara Kusler, ‘Jacques Copeau's School for Actors’, Mime Journal, No. 9/10 (1979), p. 13.Google Scholar

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14. Brook states: ‘We used Artaud's striking title to cover our own experiments…although many exercises were very far from what he had proposed’. (45) Much of the work done by Brook under the Theatre of Cruelty rubric was dedicated to determining the minimum requirements for theatre, an issue of greater interest to Copeau and Grotowski than to Artaud.

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17. This list is in thejean Dasté collection of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, as quoted in Eldredge, , ‘Jacques Copeau and the Mask’, p. 210.Google Scholar

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20. Cf. Copeau: ‘Le tout du Comédien, c'est de se donner’ (Notes, p. 31).

21. Grotowski, quoted by Mennen, Richard, ‘Jerzy Grotowski's Paratheatrical Projects’, TDR, 19, No. 4 (1975), p. 58.Google Scholar See also: Kumiega, Jennifer, ‘Laboratory Theatre/Grotowski/The Mountain Project’, Theatre Papers, 2, No. 9, pp. 1–23Google Scholar; Cashman, Daniel E., ‘Grotowski: His Twentieth Anniversary’, TJ, 31, No. 4 (1979), 460–6Google Scholar; and Findlay, Robert, ‘Grotowski's “Cultural Explorations Bordering on Art, Especially Theatre”’, TJ, 32, No. 3 (1980), 349–56.Google Scholar

22. Grotowski, , ‘Holiday: The Day that is Holy’, tr. Taborski, Boleslaw, TDR 17, No. 2 (1973), pp. 133–4.Google Scholar