page_title: Jerzy Grotowski
section_title: Bibliography
hierarchical_section_title: Jerzy Grotowski / Bibliography
caption_attribution_description: English: Wrocław, Poland - Grotowski plaqueDeutsch: Breslau - Gedenktafel fuer Grotowski
context_page_description: Jerzy Marian Grotowski was an innovative Polish theatre director and theorist whose approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today. He was born in Rzeszów, in South-eastern Poland in 1933 and studied acting and directing at the Ludwik Solski Academy of Dramatic Arts in Kraków and Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow. He debuted as a director in 1957 in Kraków with Eugène Ionesco's play Chairs and shortly afterwards founded a small Laboratory Theatre in 1959 in the town of Opole in Poland. During the 1960s, the company began to tour internationally and his work attracted increasing interest. As his work gained wider acclaim and recognition, Grotowski was invited to work in the United States and he left Poland in 1982. Although the company he founded in Poland closed a few years later in 1984, he continued to teach and direct productions in Europe and America. However, Grotowski became increasingly uncomfortable with the adoption and adaptation of his ideas and practices, particularly in the US.
context_section_description: Towards a Poor Theatre (Introduction by Peter Brook) (1968)
  The Theatre of Grotowski by Jennifer Kumiega, London: Methuen, 1987.
  At Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions by Thomas Richards, London: Routledge, 1995.
  The Grotowski Sourcebook ed. by Lisa Wolford and Richard Schechner, London: Routledge, 1997.
  A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer by Eugenio Barba, 2001.
  Biography of Grotowski by Holly Slayford, 2010.
  Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory: Embodied Memory, Witnessing and Transmission in the Grotowski Work by Dominika Laster, Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2016.
caption: A commemorative plaque devoted to Grotowski in Wrocław
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