“…Il xxi secolo è destinato a diventare il “secolo di Grotowski” perché, come dimostrano i saggi raccolti in questo volume, in diversi paesi del mondo stanno nascendo nuove riflessioni e nuove pratiche del teatro all’insegna dell’incontro più che della rappresentazione e dello spettacolo e ciò soprattutto per merito del Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards…”

“…Jerzy Grotowski…”

“…François Kahn fait la même chose avec Jerzy Grotowski, l’un des plus grands maîtres du siècle passé. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…I : Théatre Laboratoire. Wroclaw. Jerzy Grotowski : Le prince Constant. Odin Teatret. Holstebro. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Music and visual arts -- The apocalyptic dispersion of light into poetry and music : Aleksandr Skrjabin in the Russian religious imagination / Polina Dimova -- From the Peredvižniki's realism to Lenin's mausoleum : the two poles of an apocalyptic-palingenetic path / Chiara Cantelli -- Theatre at the limit : Jerzy Grotowski's Apocalypsis cum figuris / Andrea Oppo -- On Apocalypse, witches and desiccated trees : a reading of Andrej Tarkovskij's The sacrifice / Alessio Scarlato…”

“…As the first examination of women's foremost contributions to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural investigation of performance, this book complements and broadens existing literature by offering a more diverse and inclusive re-assessment of Grotowski's legacy, thereby probing its significance for contemporary performance practice and research…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Our Auschwitz: Grotowski's Akropolis -- Jerzy Grotowski: A Very Short Introduction Native Son: Grotowski in Poland Grotowski: The Polish Context Grotowski, the Messiah: Coming to America The Making of an Aura On Not Knowing Polish "In Poland: That is to Say, Nowhere" Akropolis/Necropolis The Vision and the Symbol "This Drama as Drama Cannot Be Staged" Two National Sacrums "Hollow Sneering Laughter": Mourning the Columbuses Against Heroics Representing the Unrepresentable Trip to the Museum Bearing the Unbearable The Living and the Dead Jacob's Burden The Final Descent Textual Transpositions Akropolis After Grotowski Illustrations Our Memory: Kantor's Dead Class -- Tadeusz Kantor: A Very Short Introduction Dead Class: The Making of the Legend Dead Class in Poland The Polish History Lesson Dead Class Abroad On Not Knowing Polish, Again The Visual and the Puerile The National and the Transnational Witkiewicz's Tumor An Age of Genius: Bruno Schulz and the Return to Childhood Conversing with Gombrowicz: The Dead, the Funny, the Sacred and the Profane Panirony: "A pain with a smile and a shrug" Raising the Dead Dead Class as Kaddish ... …”

“…To illustrate his argument that theatre is life-like , Wilshire provides examples from Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Waiting for Godot, and the work of the avant-garde Polish director Jerzy Grotowski, among others. Wilshire then reverses his focus to show that life is theatre-like. …”

“…In this concise book, nonbinary practitioner-researcher Ben Spatz situates the DCTV method in the context of artistic research and alongside emerging audiovisual methods in other fields, while highlighting its unique characteristics.Across six focused chapters, Making a Laboratory introduces DCTV as a queer feminist adaptation of Jerzy Grotowski's "poor" theater laboratory and defines its core elements, drawing on a range of thinkers including Giorgio Agamben, Rebecca Schneider, and Hito Steyerl, in order to examine power, identity, and documentation in lab practice. …”