Experimental theatre 

Experimental theatre is trying something new. Like other forms of the avant garde, it was created as a response to a perceived general cultural crisis. Despite different political and formal approaches, all avant-garde theatre opposes bourgeois theatre.


some examples of experimental theatre 

Usually/(in the past) audiences are seen as (allowing something to happen without reacting or trying to stop it) (people who are watching something). Many (professionals or skilled people) of experimental theatre have wanted to challenge this. For example, Bertolt Brecht wanted to get ready for action his audiences by having a character in a play break through the invisible "fourthwall," directly ask the audience questions, not giving them answers, by that/in that way gettingthem to think for themselves; Augusto Boal wanted his audiences to react directly to the action;and Antonin Artaud wanted to affect them directly on a subconscious level. Peter Brook hasidentified a triangle of relationships within a performance: the performers' internal relationships,the performers' relationships to each other on stage, and their relationship with the audience. The British experimental theatre group Welfare State International has spoken of aceremonial circle during performance, the cast providing one half, the audience providinganother, and the energy in the middle.