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JERZY GROTOWSKI
Jerzy Grotowski (1933 - 1999) - film director, art theoretician, extraordinary drama tutor, reformer of the art of acting. Founder and director of the innovative Theatre
of the Thirteen Rows, later known as the Laboratory. He also won acclaim for his direction of the classics of Polish theatre, like Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve'(1961), Wyspiański's 'Acropolis' (1962), and Słowacki's 'Kordian' (1962), as well as
Marlowe's 'Dr. Faustus' (1963), 'Książę niezłomny' (The Constant Prince), a Calderon play in a Polish adaptation by Słowacki(1965)
and 'Apocalypsis cum Figuris" (1968). After 1983 he worked in the USA, later
in Italy, where in Pondera he established a theatre centre which conducted a research
programme. After 1985 he was a professor at the College de France, Paris, where
he lectured on drama.
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