Is There a Poetic Theater? Or Is It Poetry?

I'm interested in a more poetic theater and a more poetic film that engages you, but engages you through your brain. So for me, animals make me laugh. And I have to say that having worked with many other directors, although I make this teeny film and these monologues, it always starts from a point of poetry. It never starts with the style and then goes into the feeling. Can we talk about Abel Ferrara? How easy he was the craziest director I've worked with. Is he behaving more? Is he tamed? Have you tamed him?