Towards a Poor Theatre

by Grotowski; *

• ISBN13: 9780878301553
• ISBN10: 0878301550
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136745850
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

In 1968, Jerzy Grotowski published his groundbreaking Towards a Poor Theatre, a record of the theatrical investigations conducted at his experimental theater in Poland. This classic work on acting and performance is now available once again. In his preface to the original edition, Peter Brook wrote: "Grotowski is unique. Why? Because no one else in the world, to my knowledge no one since Stanislavski, has investigated the nature of acting, its phenomenon, its meaning, the nature and science of its mental-physical-emotional processes as deeply as Grotowski." More recently, Richard Schechner has called Grotowski "one of the four great directors of Western theater." Jerzy Grotowski was born in Poland in 1933. In 1982 he moved to the United States and worked at the University of California. He later moved to Italy, where he continued his unique and intense theatrical investigation. He died in 1999.

Table of Contents

Information	9	(2)
Preface	11	(4)
Peter Brook
Towards a Poor Theatre	15	(12)
Jerzy Grotowski
The Theatre's New Testament	27	(28)
Jerzy Grotowski
Eugenio Barba
Theatre is an Encounter	55	(6)
Jerzy Grotowski
Naim Kattan
Akropolis: Treatment of the Text	61	(18)
Ludwik Flaszen
Dr Faustus: Textual Montage	79	(18)
Eugenio Barba
The Constant Prince	97	(20)
Ludwik Flaszen
He Wasn't Entirely Himself	117	(10)
Jerzy Grotowski
Methodical Exploration	127	(6)
Jerzy Grotowski
Actor's Training (1959-1962)	133	(42)
Eugenio Barba
Actor's Training (1966)	175	(30)
Franz Marijnen
The Actor's Technique	205	(20)
Jerzy Grotowski
Denis Bablet
Skara Speech	225	(18)
Jerzy Grotowski
American Encounter	243	(12)
Jerzy Grotowski
Richard Schechner
Theodore Hoffman
Statement of Principles	255
Jerzy Grotowski