The Stars and The Stairs An Old Russian proverb says: "If you go to your porch, look up at the sky, and jump to the stars, you will just land in the mud." The stars are those things we dream of, we envisage and we hope to achieve; both Grotowski and Meyerhold had their theatrical vision, their ideals of what an actor should possess with regards to technical and psychological properties-all these embedded amongst the …
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…agreement with natural laws but on a primary level" All these elements, observations, techniques that have been seen here, epitomize two of the greatest theatre makers in the history of theatre. However, above all and before everything else, one must realize that they were not simply directors confined to the realms of theatre; they were people energized with a passion for life before everything else, and theatre was the vent that sparked off their magnificence.