COPEAU : AKTÖRÜN NÖTR KONUMUNDAN FİLİZLENEN SAMİMİ TİYATRO

Copeau, one of the pioneers of French theatre, is not only a teacher and an example to 20th century‟s important play writers, directors, designers and actors with his ideas, writings and practices about dramatic renovation, but he also encouraged them. What he wanted to do in theatre was to close to the „true tradition‟ and to realize the cathartic effect in modern society with sincerity, by freeing the theatre from all contributions loaded on it during centuries by official actors of boulvard theatre based on the star system. For this purpose, his first step was to stripped the stage from all its decorations and over paintings, then he opened a school and concentrated on the training of young actors to seize the authentic one. He believed that these trainings shouldn‟t be formulated and fixed, but they must be developed and changed as the student changes. However neutral mask training which he explored during a rehearsal and then he defined various exercises, became one of the classes which impulses the actor‟s creativity in many theatre schools.