Commentators

Paul Allain

Commentator

Paul Allain is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Kent. He collaborated with the Gardzienice Theatre Association to publish the book Gardzienice: Polish Theatre in Transition.

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Andrei Droznin
by Paul Allain
Paul Allain provides context for five clips from Andrei Droznin's actor training workshop in June 2010.
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Bodies in the Crypt: Director’s Perspective
by Paul Allain
Paul Allain, who co-directed Bodies in the Crypt, a production of Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris, analyses the politics and pressures of staging a performance in Canterbury Cathedral.
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Zygmunt Molik I
by Paul Allain
Paul Allain turns his attention to a film that is as much about the teacher figure as it is about the teaching – Zygmunt Molik, a key proponent of the Grotowskian tradition, particularly voice work.
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Zygmunt Molik II
by Paul Allain
Paul Allain contextualises a workshop featuring Molik leading voice training, and Rena Mirecka demonstrating plastiques, in terms of Molik’s work, the Teatr-Laboratorium and paratheatre principles.