Land of Ashes and Diamonds, My Apprenticeship in Poland / 26 Letters from Jerzy Grotowski to Eugenio Barba

by Eugenio Barba

Land of Ashes and My Apprenticeship in Poland followed by 26 Letters from Jerzy Grotowski to Eugenio Barba : By Eugenio Barba Land of Ashes and Diamonds publishes for the first time a series of letters from Jerzy Grotowski to Eugenio Barba. Written during the early ‘Theatre Productions’ phase of Grotowski’s work in the 1960’s. The letters are contextualised in an extended autobiographical essay by Barba, which chronicles his early contact, and lifelong friendship, with Grotowski and his close collaborators, and charts their deep significance to his own life and work. Detailing the precise, concrete, sustained, and measured work upon which the Grotowski laboratorium was founded, Land of Ashes and Diamonds offers new insights into the work of two great masters of twentieth century theatre.

Genres: Theatre

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1998

About the author

Eugenio Barba is an Italian author and theatre director based in Denmark. He is the founder of the Odin Theatre and the International School of Theatre Anthropology, both located in Holstebro, Denmark.