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In this essay I will contrast and explore the key innovations and methodologies of the director/practitioner Peter Brook, and the Polish director/practitioner Wlodzimierz Staniewski and the workings of his theatre company, Gardzienice. One of Peter Brooks methodologies that I feel is key is his use of site specific work. Peter Brook felt a need to try and create theatre outside of 'traditional theatres'. So in the early 1970's he started the experimentation of acting in the street, in hospitals, carparks, anywhere there was a space big enough to hold a production. 'In the early seventies we began doing experiments outside what was regarded as 'theatre'. 'For the first three years we played hundreds of times in streets, in cafes, in hospitals, in the ancient ruins of Persepolis, in African villages, in American garages, in barracks, between concrete benches in urban parks.... We learned a lot, and the major experience for...

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