'Theatre practitioner' is a modern term to describe someone who both creates theatre performance and who produces a theoretical discourse that informs their practical work. A theatre practitioner may be a director, a dramatist, an actor, or--characteristically--often a combination of these traditionally-separate roles. The term is not ordinarily applied to theatre-makers prior to the rise of modernism in the theatre, instead describing theatre praxis from Stanislavski's development of his 'system', through Meyerhold's biomechanics, Bertolt Brecht's epic and Jerzy Grotowski's poor theatre, down to the present day, with contemporary theatre practitioners including Augusto Boal with his Theatre of the Oppressed, Dario Fo's popular theatre, Eugenio Barba's theatre anthropology and Anne Bogart's viewpoints. A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... For Christian theological modernism, see Liberal Christianity and Modernism (Roman Catholicism). ... Look up praxis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Young Stanislavski Stanislavski in Carlo Goldonis La locandiera (The Innkeeper Woman, 1753), in 1898. ... Stanislavskis ‘system’ is an approach to acting developed by Constantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor, director, and theatre administrator at the Moscow Art Theatre (founded 1897). ... Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (born Karl Kazimir Theodor Meyerhold) (1874 - 1940) was a Russian theatrical director, actor and theorist. ... {{dy justified his choice of form, and from about 1929 on he began to interpret its penchant for contradictions, much as had Eisenstein, in terms of the dialectic. ... Epic theater, also known as theater of alienation or theater of politics, is a theater movement arising in the early to mid-20th century, inextricably linked to the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. ... Jerzy Grotowski (11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and a leading figure in avant garde theatre of the 20th century. ... Augusto Boal (born 1931 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an innovative and influential theatrical director, writer and politician. ... The Theatre of the Oppressed is a method elaborated by the Brazilian director Augusto Boal starting from the 60s, first in Brazil and then in Europe. ... Dario Fo (born March 24, 1926) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor, and composer. ... Eugenio Barba (born in Brindisi, Italy, on October 29, 1936) is an Italian author and authority on theatre. ... Anne Bogart is an American director of theatre. ... Viewpoints is a theory of acting that provides a vocabulary for thinking about and improvising movements and gestures. ...

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