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THEGROTOWSKI SOURCEBOOK
WORLDSOFPERFORMANCE
What is a "performance"? Where does it take place? Vvhoare the
participants? Not so longago these were settled questions,but today
such orthodox answers are unsatisfactory, misleading, and limiting.
"Performance"asatheoreticalcategoryandasapractice hasexpanded
explosively.Itnow comprises apanoply of genresrangingfrom play,to
popular entertainments, to theatre, dance, and music, to secular and
religious rituals, to "performance in everyday life," to intercultural
experiments,andmore.
For more than forty years, TheDrama Review(TO!?), thejournalof
performance studies,has been at the cutting edge of exploring these
questions. The Worlds of Performance Series is designedto minethe
extraordinary riches and diversity of TORs decades of excellence,
bringingback into print important essays, interviews,artists' notes,and
photographs. New materials andintroductions bringthe volumesup to
date. Each Worlds of Performance book is a complete anthology,
arrangedaroundaspecific themeor topic.EachWorldsof Performance
book is an indispensableresource for the scholar, a textbook for the
student,andanexcitingeye-openerfor thegeneralreader.
RichardSchechner
Editor, TOR
SeriesEditor
Titlesintheseries:
Acting(ReJConsiderededitedbyPhillipB.Zarrilli
HappeningsandotherActseditedbyMariellenR.Sandford
A Sourcebook ofFeminist Theatre andPerformance: On andBeyond
theStageeditedbyCarolMartin
TheGrotowskiSourcebook editedbyRichard Schechner
andLisaWolford
A Sourcebook of African-American Performance: Plays, People,
MovementseditedbyAnnemarieBean
BrechtSourcebookeditedbyCarolMartinandHenryBial
THEGROTOWSKI SOURCEBOOK
Edited by Lisa Wolford &Richard Schechner
London and New York
Firstpublished1997
byRoutledge
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Grotowskisourcebook/ editedbyLisaWolford &RichardSchechner
p. cm.- (Worldsofperformance)
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
1.Grotowski,Jerzy,1933- -Criticismandinterpretation.
I.Wolford,Lisa. II.Schechner,Richard,1934- . III.Series
PN2859.P66G73 1997 96-53490
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ISBN 978-1-1361-6728-7
For my moms,
Selma Sophia Schwarz Schechner
Artis Martin
RS
For Bos,
with abidinggratitude for what was given to me,
and infinite regret for myrebellious nature.
Iremainalways
your Nivedita.
LW
Grotowski,drawnbyMarilynChurch
CONTENTS
List ofIllustrations xi
NotesonContributors xv
Acknowledgments xxi
Preface xxv
General Introduction: Ariadne'sthread
LisaWolford
PARTI:THEATREOFPRODUCTIONS,1957-69
2 Introduction:RichardSchechner 23
3 TowardsaPoorTheatre
JerzyGrotowski 28
4 InterviewwithGrotowski
RichardSchechnerandTheodoreHoffman 38
5 DoctorFaustus:Textualmontage
EugenioBarba 56
6 Wyspianski'sAkropolis
LudwikFlaszen 64
7 TheatreLaboratory13Rzedow
EugenioBarba 73
8 "ISaidYesto the Past":InterviewwithGrotowski
MargaretCroyden 83
9 A MythVivisected:Grotowski'sApocalypsis
KonstantyPuzyna 88
10 ExternalOrder, InternalIntimacy:InterviewwithGrotowski
MarcFumaroli 107
11 Introduction:TheLaboratoryTheatreinNewYork,1969
RichardSchechner 114
12 TheLaboratoryTheatreinNewYork,1969:A set ofcritiques
StefanBrecht 118
13 WhyShouldITakePart inthe SacredDance?
JanKott 134
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CONTENTS
14 Let GrotowskiSacrificeMasculinityToo
CharlesLudlam 141
15 Asian TheatreandGrotowski
Donald Richie 144
16 GrotowskiRight- DidtheWord ComeLast?
WalterKerr 152
17 A PolishCatholicHasid
RichardSchechner 157
18 JerzyGrotowski
HaroldClurman 161
19 DearGrotowski:An open letter
EricBentley 165
20 Grotowski'sLaboratoryTheatre:Dissolution anddiaspora
RobertFindlay 172
21 InMemoryofRyszard Cieslak
FerdinandoTaviani 189
PARTII:PARATHEATRE,1969-78, AND
THEATREOFSOURCES,1976-82
22 Introduction:RichardSchechner 207
23 Holiday [Swieto]: Theday that isholy
JerzyGrotowski 215
24 TheVigil[Czuwanie]
Francois Kahn 226
25 LaboratoryTheatre/Grotowski/TheMountain Project
JennaKumiega 231
26 Route to theMountain:A prosemeditation onGrotowski
aspilgrim
RonaldGrimes 248
27 TheatreofSources
JerzyGrotowski 252
28 TheTheatreofSources
RonaldGrimes 271
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CONTENTS
PARTIII:OBJECTIVEDRAMA,1983-86
29 Introduction: LisaWolford 283
30 TuesIefilsdequelqu'un
JerzyGrotowski 294
31 Grotowski,or theLimit
JanKott 306
32 BaliandGrotowski:Some parallelsinthetrainingprocess
IWayanLendra 312
33 SubjectiveReflectionsonObjectiveWork
LisaWolford 328
34 GrotowskiinIrvine:Breaking the silence
CharlesMarowitz 350
35 JerzyGrotowski'sDivinationConsultation: ObjectiveDrama
seminaratU.C.-Irvine
J.Ndukaku Amankulor 356
PARTIV:ARTASVEHICLE,1986-
36 Introduction: LisaWolford 367
37 Performer
JerzyGrotowski 376
38 Grotowski,ArtasaVehicle
PeterBrook 381
39 GrotowskiBlazes theTrails:FromObjectiveDramato Art
asVehicle
ZbigniewOsinski 385
40 WhereisGurutowski?
HalinaFilipowicz 404
41 Action, Theunrepresentableorigin
LisaWolford 409
42 TheEdge-pointofPerformance(Fragments),Interviewer:
LisaWolford
Thomas Richards 432
43 Exoduction:Shape-shifter,shaman,trickster,artist, adept,
director, leader,Grotowski
RichardSchechner 462
