History
Teatralnaya Laboratoriya was founded in Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 1984. The Laboratroriya's work is focused on experimental creative research in Artaud's theories and practices.
The Teatralnaya Laboratoriya's actors undergo a specialized training. The training includes the Oriental practice of psychological self-regulation. The training is based on Artaud's idea of the human body's "energy centers". Each center contains a set of senses and can find expression in the form of plastic motion and voice. The training helps the actor escape from the masks imposed by everyday life.
The main principle of the Teatralnaya Laboratoriya's performances is a rhythmic and psychoenergetic act of organization, an integration of voice, gesture and word into a unified impulse, which is intended to have a profound effect on the audience's perceptions. The Theater Laboratory has produced some twenty plays, including world classics (Sophocles' Antigone, Oscar Wilde's Salome, August Strindberg's A Dream Play, Euripides'/I. Brodsky's Medea), as well as modern European dramaturgical efforts (Fosse/Frostenson/Fragments, Milorad Pavic's Party).
Some of the plays have never been performed in Russia before (Igor Terentiev's Iordano Bruno, Antonin Artaud's Samurai or ..., Dzeami Motokie's Kagekie, Jean Genet's Elle and William Butler Yeats' The Only Jealousy of Emer).
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