Study On The Body In Western Theatre In 1960s

In 1960 s,the middle-class young peoples values had a dramatic con flict with their protestantism ethics.Be coincided with the western w orld's social movement were the imitation of the Aristotelian theatr e con-cept,the function of ideology and language's suppressing face d rebellion of the body.The play of theatre payed attention to extract the significance of the body.While rehearsing social movements,theat re also reflected social movements,and the boundaries between life an d theatre tended to disappear,That maked the whole 1960 s like a large ritual theatre.Audience and actors,both the two sides' bodies coalesce d,they shared emotions,desires and unconsciousness.Grotowski's pursuit of the essential body,Peter Brook's creation about the ritual body,and the body with the subjectivity,the body without organs,and the bo dy with the eroticism,which created by Richard Schechner in Dionysus in'69 created.These theatre practices all have in support of the'60 s social movements and young people who wanted to beyond the tradition a nd establish new values and the ideal about subject coalesced.After th e 1960 s,the social value system has reestablished and stabilized,and the body in the theatre began to return to the daily routine.The scen ery on the stage of the French daily theatre and the performance form s of the actors all revealed the influence after the innovation in th e 1960 s.