Compulsory Readings in the Yorick Collection
Compulsory Readings in the Yorick Collection

Summary/Abstract: Any revisiting of a piece of writing holds forth a process of reevaluation of both the written material and the echoes it has in the reader’s conscience. The second meeting with a text that is challenging through its denial of finite, one-fits-all answers, but rather creates one’s need to ask (themselves) new questions would be rendered less significant the moment one has the feeling of having already come upon and grasped the meanings of said writing. Stanislavski, Grotowski and Brook are bound by their urge to search and the inability to be content with the answers they came upon. One’s first contact with the texts in which they describe their thoughts on theatre is usually due to the compulsory readings lists of every theatre academy – their rereading is truly necessary.

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