The Grotowski Sourcebook / Edition 1

by RICHARD SCHECHNER, Lisa Wolford Wylam

Overview

This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowski's life and work.
Edited by the two leading experts on Grotowski, the sourcebook features:
*essays from the key performance theorists who worked with Grotowski, including Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, Jan Kott, Eric Bentley, Harold Clurman, and Charles Marowitz
*writings which trace every phase of Grotowski's career from his 'theatre of production' to 'objective drama' and 'art as vehicle'
*a wide-ranging collection of Grotowski's own writings, plus an interview with his closest collaborator and 'heir', Thomas Richards
*an array of photographs documenting Grotowski and his followers in action
*a historical-critical study of Grotowski by Richard Schechner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415131117
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/25/2001
Series:	Worlds of Performance
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

RICHARD SCHECHNER, Lisa Wolford Wylam

Table of Contents

1: General Introduction; 1: Theatre of Productions, 1957-69; 2: Introduction; 3: Towards a Poor Theatre; 4: Interview with Grotowski; 5: Doctor Faustus; 6: Wyspianski's Akropolis; 7: Theatre Laboratory 13 Rzedow; 8: “I Said yes to the Past”; 9: A Myth Vivisected; 10: External Order, Internal Intimacy; 11: Introduction; 12: The Laboratory Theatre in New York, 1969; 13: Why Should i Take Part in the Sacred Dance?; 14: Let Grotowski Sacrifice Masculinity too; 15: Asian Theatre and Grotowski; 16: Is Grotowski Right – Did the Word Come Last?; 17: A Polish Catholic Hasid; 18: Jerzy Grotowski; 19: Dear Grotowski; 20: Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre; 21: In Memory of Ryszard Cieslak; 2: Paratheatre, 1969–78, and Theatre of Sources, 1976–82; 22: Introduction to Part ii; 23: Holiday [Swieto]; 24: The Vigil [Czuwanie]; 25: Laboratory Theatre/Grotowski/the Mountain Project; 26: Route to the Mountain; 27: Theatre of Sources; 28: The Theatre of Sources; 3: Objective Drama, 1983—86; 29: Introduction; 30: Tu Es Le Fils De Quelqu'Un; 31: Grotowski, or the Limit; 32: Bali and Grotowski; 33: Subjective Reflections on Objective Work; 34: Grotowski in Irvine; 35: Jerzy Grotowski's Divination Consultation; 4: Art as vehicle, 1986–; 36: Introduction: Art as vehicle, 1986–; 37: Performer; 38: Grotowski, Art as a Vehicle; 39: Grotowski Blazes the Trails; 40: Where is Gurutowski?; 41: Action, The Unrepresentable Origin; 42: The Edge-Point of Performance (Fragments); 43: Exoduction

Editorial Reviews

'Schechner and Wolford managed to build a real Grotowski bible.' -Amazon.com

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