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Found 3 comments on Towards a Poor Theatre (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback)):

u/LeonardNemoysHead · 2 pointsr/Games

It's like nobody realizes that theatre exists when trying to compare gaming to other media. It was nice seeing a shoutout to commedia, but there's much much more to it than centuries old touring improv acts. Modern day theatre isn't just fourth wall proscenium shit, it's been doing interactive and emergent storytelling and breaking the actor-audience barrier for fifty years at least. Children's theatre in particular has so many tools to use to tell stories and not limit the audience to a traditional authoritarian relationship.

Read the fucking manual and know who Augusto Boal, Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Piscator, Andre Gregory, and Jerzy Grotowski are. There's so much here to learn from. At the very least, watch My Dinner with Andre.

u/_apunyhuman_ · 2 pointsr/Theatre

Here's my two cents:

If I had one book, it would be
A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer

This book is a great jumping off point for whatever you want to study. It codifies and connects different types of styles, e.g. it takes a topic like "balance" and says this is an example from mime, from balinese dance, from noh, etc.

In addition to Brecht, I'd recommend picking up Towards a Poor Theater (Grotowski). Grotowski's work is deeply, deeply physical.

Another book, a good primer on the major movements of the last 120 years or so is Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook, which has a little bit of everyone, in their own words, from Stanislavski and Meyerhold through To Barba. It's not as actor-centric perhaps, but it will give you a good overview, that you can get more specific with.

Lastly, The Practical Handbook for the Actor and The Invisible Actor, two books that help me immensely with how i approach a role.