Ein-Mensch-Theater ( "human being") is a German expression for a traveling theater, within the owner is writer, director, stage designer, performer and sometimes even his own tour manager in one person.A definition, corresponding with The poor Theater and its imagination power. Cf. Jerzy Grotowski: Towards a Poor Theatre (Preface: Peter Brook/Edited by Eugenio Barba). Eyre Metghuen, London 1980.
Origin The term was coined by Natias Neutert after his performance (The poet reels into the Open) at Schauspielhaus Bochum during a panel discussion with Peter ZadekDIE ZEIT No. 32, 4 August 1978.
Goal His intention was going to replace the worn and partial label one-man show by a label under which both males and females could find equally.So Neutert in the panel discussion at Schauspielhaus Bochum, August 1978.
Exponents Dario Fo, Robert Kreis, Johnny Melville, Natias Neutert and Franca Rame became famous exponents as this type of theater in Europe.Cf.Hannes Heer (Ed.), Dario Fo über Dario Fo. Übersetzt aus dem Italienischen von Ulrich Enzensberger. Prometh Köln, 1980
See also Commedia dell'arte Monodrama Monologue
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