Word: grotowski
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...revolting theater--unreality becoming superreal--in the tradition of Franz Wedekind, early twentieth-century dramatist of the grotesque whose "The Queen from New Fun Land" inspired the ballet. Perhaps another influence is Jerzy Grotowski, Antonin Artaud's heir, whose company is based, along with The Polish Mime Ballet Theatre, in Wroclaw, Poland...
...three-week Brooklyn run. The same thing happened to a 1971-72 production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and a 1973 Academy staging of Jean Genet's The Screens. Lichtenstein has also brought in a wide variety of visiting theatrical attractions, from Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theater Lab to the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey to the Peter Brook-Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which appeared following a Broadway...
...COUNTRY IN THE WORLD is producing drama as exciting as the stuff that has come out of post-war Poland. Anybody who's seen Akropolis, the film of Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Laboratory Theater, can bear me out on that. Slawomir Mrozek has already made his mark on modern theater with such widely produced plays as Tango and Police. Like many of his Polish contemporaries, he is preoccupied with the lessons of the Hitler regime. (Grotowski's actors, for instance, wear army fatigues no matter what play they are doing, while dismembered department-store mannequins and blood-stained clothing...
...Midsummer Night's Dream raises one further question. Both Peter Brook and Jerzy Grotowski. the astringently rigorous Polish director to whom Brook is partially indebted, have repeatedly claimed that they want to restore the theater to actors and actresses. Yet the results of this director-actor axis have ironically proved the opposite. Actors under Brook and Grotowski express Brook and Grotowski, rather in the manner of orchestras under the batons of Toscanini or Koussevitzky. Their group efforts are mesmerically disciplined, but their individuality seems submerged...
Perhaps Brook and Grotowski are caretakers of survival for an era in which drama is in abeyance or decline. Their productions are brilliant rockets that momentarily light up a dark creative sky that awaits the suns and moons of great and gifted playwrights...