Character Profile: Jerzy Grotovski

Born: August 11th 1933

Died: January 14th 1999 

Occupations:  Theatre Director

Grotovski  believed that lighting, sound and costuume etc. were pointless in theatre and strayed away from what theatre truly was. Which was to him a performance of actors. He was a pioneer for experimental Theatre, and pushed all his actors mentally and physcially.

He believed in building up the emotions in an actor so they may be close to their emotions as possible so they can re call it easily and summon them within an instance, he did this by making his actors run for hours. With this their bodies would weaken, meaning their anger levels we're much easier to reach. It also meant every emotion was much more accesible. Because of this an actor could easily give a strong piece of theatre that presented genuine actors with genuine emotions.

Grotowski felt more about devoloping the actor rather than the scene itself.

Sadly Mr. Grotowski died after years of fighting leukemia at the age of 65.