Anne Bogart: Monster Acting

Performance image from "Bob" directed by Anne Bogart.

I just came across an interesting review of Anne Bogart's shows Bob and Room. They focused on Robert Wilson and Virginia Wolf respectively. In the review Anne Bogart was interviewed and describes her performers as "Monster Actors."

From the article by Kenn Watt:

"We might define monster acting as the current high-water mark of the art form, which Bogart's Saratoga International Theatre Institute (SITI) has done perhaps more than any other group in the United States.

To be a monster actor, one must possess a modern dancer's contact-improvisation responsiveness, an uncanny strength in stillness, an over-arching critical intelligence brought to bear on the written word, a vocal instrument equal to the body's strength and no fear."

You can find the full article here.