Actor santo jerzy grotowski biography
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GROTOWSKI’S ARS MAGNA
Leszek Kolankiewicz
(b. 11 August in Rzeszów, Poland – d. 14 January in Pontedera, Italy) was a theatre director, researcher investigating the art of acting and, broadly speaking, performance, a lecturer in theatre anthropology, reformer of the performing arts and cultural visionary.
Between and he directed seventeen performances, including eleven at the Laboratory Theatre, based initially in Opole and later in Wrocław, which he founded and ran.
Actor santo jerzy grotowski biography
Four of these performances – Akropolis (), Dr Faustus (), The Constant Prince () and Apocalypsis cum Figuris () – earned Grotowski a global reputation and they entered the canon of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century theatre.
He presented his method of acting and broader programme in the book Towards a Poor Theatre (Polish edition, ). In a series of inspired manifestoes (Jak żyć by można [; trans.: How One Could Live, ]; Takim, jakim się jest, cały [; trans.: ‘Such as One Is – Whole’