How (and to what extent) does the work of practitioner-theorists such as those studied on this module influence performance practice today? Discuss with reference to two specific performance examples: one must be a year two production and the other a ‘t

The study of practitioner-theorists. Great influencers of today’s performance practice or old men and women whom we study because they wrote big books with big words then died. Only idiocy would argue the latter. To me, theatre is a question and an answer. It is a question in that it can offer incite to such matter as what it is to be human? And it is the answer in that I believe questions of that nature and that depth can be given some light through it’s use. This juxtaposition conceals itself on an island of truth surrounded by the waters of study and practice. My point is that for whatever reason a practitioner-theorist may have for working in the theatre, they are, with all the other performers and writers of the world, swimming in these waters eroding away at the island of truth. Some may enjoy great gains in the erosion of these questions and some may only ever see the island from afar but all, by necessity, help and influence each other. For those that succeed there ideas wi...