Obituary: Jerzy Grotowski

The Independent - London | January 19, 1999| | Copyright

JERZY GROTOWSKI is a name that few drama students speak confidently. Yet this Polish theatre director is a central figure in 20th-century theatre, ranking alongside Brecht and Stanislavski.

Grotowski rejected the cliched terminology of entertaining "shows" and repositioned theatre as an encounter between spectator and actor. He was the director who most tangibly realised Artaud's mad but inspired vision of a metaphysical theatre, viscerally disturbing and purging the audience on a subconscious level - a Theatre of Cruelty. For Grotowski this "total theatre" was only achievable through the ...

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