ABSTRACT
For Barba, the internal dynamic is the most important aspect of group theatre. He maintains that since performance is temporally limited, both through each production being retained in the repertoire for a limited period and performance generally taking up no more than a few hours each day, and because it is the end product of a much longer process within the group, the process itself-that is, how the group creates its productions, the members' attitudes to the work, to each other, to the collective, and to their professional life -is what is important ( 1986a: 175). He further argues that it is this process which determines the group's place and influence in society because it provides the foundation for the group's survival strategies, its professional ethics, and its esthetics (1986a:l98-199).
