Loose Screws And Other Polish Plays

One of Polish theaters great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations this single underlying proposition propelled Grotowskis career. In Grotowskis Bridge Made of Memory Dominika Laster analyzes core aspects of Grotowskis work such as bodymemory vigilance witnessing verticality and transmission arguing that these performance praxes involve a deliberate blurring of the boundaries of the self and other. This comprehensive study traces key thematic threads across all phases of Grotowskis research examining lesserknown aspects of his praxis such as performance compositions structured around African and AfroCaribbean traditional songs and ritual movement as well as textual material from the Christian Gnostic tradition. As an active process of research and questioning conducted through the bodybeing of the performer the Grotowski work is a practical realization of the often highly theoretical and abstract discussions of one of the fields main preoccupations embodied practice as a way of knowing.