Now available - Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work - more
Ludwik Flaszen's Grotowski & Company edited by Paul Allain is also available here

The British Grotowski Archive at the University of Kent Templeman Library.
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With Jerzy GrotowskiNow available to purchase: 'With Jerzy Grotowski, Nienadowka, 1980'
In this film Grotowski (speaking in English) returns to the place where he was raised for the first time since the war. He is hoping to find the people and places, the images and the sounds of his intensely lived childhood—memories that have been indelibly linked to his art and his life’s quest. Conceived by Mercedes Gregory. Directed and edited by Jill Godmilow. With an introduction by Peter Brook.
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Publication work is ongoing and includes three projects with the Grotowski Institute:

  • An edited collection of texts by Brook on Grotowski, titled Theatre is Just a Form. This has already been published in Polish, and will also be published in French.
  • An edited collection of Ludwik Flaszen's texts title tbc.
  • Texts by Grotowski's collaborators for a new journal in English called "Polish Theatre Perspectives" . This issue will be titled Grotowski: Voices from Within.

Paul is also editing a collection of texts on Grotowski by academics from across Europe titled Grotowski’s Empty Room for Seagull Press. Flyer can be seen here.

Paul's short article on 2009 activities in Theatre in Poland Nos 3-4, 2008, published by the Polish Centre of the International Theatre Institute in English and Polish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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British Grotowski Conference programme 11-14th June 2009

British Grotowski Postgraduate/Practitioners Symposium programme 14-15th June 2009

The third volume of Opere e Sentieri was published in Italian in April 2008 including a text by Paul. Details are:
Opere e sentieri III - Testimonianze e riflessioni sull'arte come veicolo centers on specific topics connected with the Workcenter research and contains contributions from Paul Allain, Antonio Attisani, Peter Brook, Florinda Cambria, Marco De Marinis, Albert Dichy, Piergiorgio Giacchè, Sandro Lombardi, Roger Repohl, Kris Salata, Marcella Scopelliti, Ferdinando Taviani, Federico Tiezzi, Anatoli Vassiliev and a preface by Carlo Sini.

 

The British Grotowski Project: a review' is a report of the project's first year activities, written by Pablo Pakula. Published in Slavic and East European Performance vol.28 (1), Winter 2008, pp.39-47.

InScena Cover Inscena Cover Giorgio Taffon on The British Grotowski Project in the Italian magazine InScena, November/December 2007

For a related text ‘Grotowski’s Ghosts’ by Paul Allain see here

For a related text ‘Dall’attenzione alla via discendente. Simone Weil/Jouvet/Grotowski’ by Giuliano Campo see here

 

For an initial response to some research issues by Pablo Pakula, see here

'Tracing Roads Across' Project
This site includes information about publications, the activities and some actual publications and transcripts of interviews by members of the Documentation Team who participated in the 2003-2006 EU-funded Tracing Roads Across Project, led by the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, Italy, and Theater des Augenblicks,Vienna. It includes a conference paper by Paul Allain.
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For information on a new publication of the first volume of a work in three parts entitled Opere e sentieri, edited by Antonio Attisani and Mario Biagini, published in Italian by Bulzoni Editore. Click here. The third volume includes a text by Paul Allain.

In November 1982, Grotowski's Teatr Laboratorium visited the UK for a series of workshops at Cardiff Laboratory Theatre and to perform the two fundamental productions 'The Constant Prince' and 'Apocalypsis Cum Figuris' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London".. Click here to see more archive material.

In this text, Natasha Oxley presents her views on applying Grotowski's work to British actor training in an essay prepared for the Central School of Speech and Drama MA Actor Training and Coaching course, 2006. It is reproduced here with her kind permission as we hope it may offer some pertinent insights for British students, teachers, actors and directors interested in using Grotowski's practices or ideas.
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See here for Paul Allain's report on Song of the Goat's Macbeth shown in Stratford as part of the Complete Works Shakespeare Festival in February 2007. This was published as ‘Goat Theatre Macbeth’ in Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 17, Issue 2, pp. 255-258, and also in Polish in a shortened version as ‘Macbeth by Piesn Kozla’ in Didaskalia, April-May 2007, translated by Katrzyna Wielga p.89, ISSN 1233-0477.

See Contemporary Theatre Review Vol. 18 (1) 2008, pp. 115-117 for Paul Allain's review of  Jerzy Grotowski by James Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta and Etienne Decroux by Thomas Leabhart, Routledge Performance Practitioners Series, 2007. More

 

 

In this text, Natasha Oxley presents her views on applying Grotowski's work to British actor training in an essay prepared for the Central School of Speech and Drama MA Actor Training and Coaching course, 2006. It is reproduced here with her kind permission as we hope it may offer some pertinent insights for British students, teachers, actors and directors interested in using Grotowski's practices or ideas.