Source Material on Jerzy Grotowski Statement of Principles Additional Contents Editor(Owen Daly) This is a statement of ten principles for prospective students at his theatre lab. Grotowski wrote this text for internal use within his Theatre Laboratory, and in particular for those actors undergoing a period of trial before being accepted into the troupe in order to acquaint them with the basic ...

Richard Gaffield-Knight Theater 597 Professor Boros May 16, 1992 GROTOWSKI : Igniting the Flame In 1959, in the provincial town of Opole, Poland, population 50, 000, sixty miles from Auschwitz, Jerzy Grotowski (to be referred to, henceforth, simply as Grotowski) was named director of Teatr 13 Rz dow, the Theater of Thirteen Rows. Traveling a conventional route in terms of training and ...