The Grotowski Sourcebook (Worlds of Performance)

About this book

This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowskis long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowskis 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 Grotowskis career from his theatre of production to objective drama and art as vehicle a wide-ranging collection of Grotowskis 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.