Physical Theatre

“Physical theatre” is a term which means different things to different performers, practitioners, and companies. The common meaning to physical theatre is a performance that emphasis on the freedom of physical movement. Physical theatre is a genre of theatrical performance that is storytelling which is shown mainly through the use of an actor’s physical movement. Actors are able to communicate emotions, historical and cultural issues and the different social issues through various body gestures. Artaud is a practitioner whose key is to communicate in language beyond speech, in the case of using groans, chants, grotesque movements. In Artaud’s theatre text was reduced and dance and gestures became as powerful as spoken words. (Cash, 2018) Grotowski
("The whole hearted study guide", n.d.) During devising it is common for you to change, rearrange and be able to throw away something that didn’t work. During our devising we have decided to stop with what we started with last week. We have looked at run walk stop, Run walk stop which is used as a warm up in DV8 and also as ensemble building; run walk stop is when students walk around in the room with a relaxed body. The group must develop a way of stopping everyone, and then as a group you need to be able get everyone walking and starting again. This process can be developed into your own personal idea which is relevant to your current working process. ("Performance studies", 2015) this is done by both massive theatre company and DV8. Massive Theatre Company is a professional contemporary physical ensemble company. ("Massive Hub", n.d.) They are company whose work is essential and present, they work with real stories and they allow and make theatre that tells their stories. They are a company that voice the truth and perspectives that need to be shared through their physical movement and dialogue. Like Robert Lepage and Stanislavski they also play, said on their website, “playing is at the heart of everything we do” ("Massive Hub",