Phillip B. Zarrilli

Artistic Director, The Llanarth Group

Llanarth, UK

  • About

    Phillip B. Zarrilli is Artistic Director of the Llanarth Group (Wales, UK) and Professor Emeritus of Performance Practice in the Department of Drama at the University of Exeter, UK. From 1976-1998 he was Professor of Theatre, Folklore, and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also taught at UCLA, Northwestern, NYU, and the University of Surrey. He is internationally known for training actors using a psychophysical process combining yoga and Asian martial arts, and as a director. His productions of Samuel Beckett's plays in Los Angeles, Austria, and Ireland have won considerable critical acclaim.

  • Professional activities

    directing, performing, teaching, practice-led research, performer training

  • Areas of interest

    acting, directing, theatre, performance, cross-cultural performance, psychophysical acting, Asian theatre, kalarippayattu, yoga, taiquiquan, kathakali, martial arts, collective creation, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, Ōta Shōgo, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Jerzy Grotowski, theatre & performance studies, interculturalism, theatre history

  • Working languages

    English

Contact

  • E-mail

    P.Zarrilli@exeter.ac.uk

  • Website

    www.phillipzarrilli.com

Mailing address

  • The Llanarth Group
    Tyn y parc

  • City

    Llanarth

  • Postcode

    SA47 0PB

  • Country

    UK

Featured Work

<p>Psychophysical Acting: An intercultural approach after Stanislavski</p>

Book

Closed Peer Reviewed

Psychophysical Acting: An intercultural approach after Stanislavski

by Phillip B. Zarrilli, with a DVD-ROM by Peter Hulton and a Foreword by Eugenio Barba

  • Keywords

    cross-cultural performance theatre & performance studies martial arts directing acting Sarah Kane performer training kalarippayattu yoga Samuel Beckett psychophysical acting acting theory Martin Crimp Kaite O'Reilly Ōta Shōgo
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<p>Cosy</p>

Performance

Closed

Cosy

A new play by Kaite O’Reilly

  • Keywords

    theatre family Welsh theatre ageing youth living
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Between Derrida and Grotowski

Article

Closed Peer Reviewed

Between Derrida and Grotowski

  • Keywords

    Jerzy Grotowski Jacques Derrida self & performance
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<p>Theatre Histories: An Introduction</p>

Book

Closed Peer Reviewed

Theatre Histories: An Introduction

by Phillip B. Zarrilli, Bruce McConachie, Gary Jay Williams, and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei

  • Keywords

    cross-cultural performance theatre & performance studies directing acting interculturalism drama avant-garde ritual globalization theatre history circus variety theatre popular entertainments European performance performance history world theatre theatre cultures shamanic performance oral performance ceremony festivals early drama African performance American performance Asian performance Australasian performance theatre & nation revues realist theatre theatre & revolution hybrid performance
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<p>Acting (Re)Considered</p>

Book

Closed Peer Reviewed

Acting (Re)Considered

Edited by Phillip B. Zarrilli

  • Keywords

    cross-cultural performance martial arts directing acting Jerzy Grotowski rhythm voice performance performer training musicality kalarippayattu yoga presence feminist theory gender Augusto Boal The Wooster Group Eugenio Barba Gardzienice commedia dell'arte mime mime performance self & performance biomechanics TDR Forum Theatre psychophysical acting body memory autobiography Tadashi Suzuki dramaturgy acting theory phenomenology emotions acting psychology task-based acting Vsevolod Meyerhold Etienne Decroux neutral mask Balinese performance Javanese performance breath Alba emoting Bertolt Brecht Dario Fo clowning Rachel Rosenthal Robert Wilson Anna Deavere Smith acting & identity
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<p>playing &lsquo;the maids&rsquo;</p>

Performance

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playing ‘the maids’

by The Llanarth Group, Gaitkrash, and Theatre P'yut

  • Keywords

    cross-cultural performance collective creation Jean Genet psychophysical performance The Maids
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Blogs

<p>Rewriting isn&rsquo;t just about dialogue: <em>Cosy</em> developments</p>

Blog post

Open Access

Rewriting isn’t just about dialogue: Cosy developments

by Kaite O’Reilly

  • Keywords

    writing & performance R&D Llanarth Group Cosy (play) Sara Beer Llinos Daniel Ruth Lloyd Sharon Morgan Ri Richards Mike Salmon Tom Wentworth Bethan Rose Young Phillip Zarrilli Welsh theatre bowed psaltery crwth Unlimited Wales Millennium Centre
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<p><em>Cosy</em>: the director&rsquo;s perspective on R&amp;D</p>

Blog post

Open Access

Cosy: the director’s perspective on R&D

by Phillip Zarrilli

  • Keywords

    Sara Beer Llinos Daniel Ruth Lloyd Sharon Morgan Kaite O'Reilly Mike Salmon Ri Richards Bethan Rose Young Phillip Zarrilli creative process R&D rehearsals
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Connections

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Kaite O'Reilly

Llanarth, UK

  • Working languages

    English, BSL

  • Professional activities

    playwriting, dramaturgy, writing, poetry

  • Areas of interest

    alternative dramaturgies, disability arts, disability culture, drama, translation, cultural translation, deaf culture, sign theatre
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Paul Allain

Professor, University of Kent

Canterbury, UK

  • Working languages

    English, Polish, French, Italian

  • Professional activities

    research, teaching, research supervision, directing, performer training, producing

  • Areas of interest

    theatre & performance studies, acting, directing, performer training, Tadashi Suzuki, Polish theatre, Russian theatre, Asian theatre, Jerzy Grotowski, Gardzienice, Andrei Droznin, Laboratory Theatre, Studium Teatralne, collaborative theatre, East European theatre, musicality, Peter Brook, Eugenio Barba, Richard Schechner, cross-cultural performance
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Ben Spatz

Lecturer, University of Huddersfield

Huddersfield, UK

  • Working languages

    English

  • Professional activities

    research, performing, directing, editing, teaching, performer training, scholarly writing

  • Areas of interest

    theatre & performance studies, performer training, acting theory, dance, embodied practice, embodied research, somatic bodywork, martial arts, critical theories, contemporary philosophy, cognitive studies, phenomenology, university studies, queer studies, gender studies, critical race studies, ritual, sociology of knowledge, historical epistemology
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Jarosław Fret

Director, Grotowski Institute

Wrocław, Poland

  • Working languages

    Polish, English

  • Professional activities

    directing, cultural management

  • Areas of interest

    theatre, directing, acting, Jerzy Grotowski, musicality, paratheatre
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Grzegorz Ziółkowski

Professor, Katedra Dramatu, Teatru i Widowisk

Poznań, Poland

  • Working languages

    Polish, English

  • Professional activities

    research, teaching, directing, performer training, translating

  • Areas of interest

    acting techniques, theatre anthropology, interculturalism, laboratory theatres, European theatre, Asian theatre, cultural performance
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Grotowski Institute

cultural centre, archive, publisher, studio, performance venue

Wrocław, Poland

  • Working languages

    Polish, English, French, Italian

  • Professional activities

    performances, seminars, publishing, research

  • Areas of interest

    Jerzy Grotowski, Laboratory Theatre, theatre, performance
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Affiliations

  • The Llanarth Group, UK

    Artistic Director (co-founder)

  • University of Exeter, UK

    Emeritus Professor (performance practice)

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