Tablica Szmaragdowa Grotowskiego
Grotowski’s Emerald Tablet

Summary/Abstract: Fragment of the book: Grotowski w praniu, to be printed by the Jerzy Grotowski Institute in Wrocław and in English by Icarus Publishing Enterprise as: Grotowski: Lost and Found. At a conference held in Toronto in October 1980 Jerzy Grotowski formulated the pragmatics of his Theatre of Sources. This undertaking was realised at a special time: the first so-called practical seminar took place in the summer of 1980s when a tide of strikes resulting in the establishment of the “Solidarity” trade union swept across Poland. The second practical seminar, planned for 1982, was prepared by an international company touring Poland in 1981 – a period of a tumultuous domestic conflict and a constant threat of military invasion by the Warsaw Pact, which in December resulted in the proclamation of martial law. At the October 1980 conference Grotowski defined the conditions in which the effectiveness of the conducted quests should be tested.

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