Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other title: | Acropolis.
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| Other uniform titles: | Grotowski, Jerzy, 1933-1999
MacTaggert, James.
Wyspiański, Stanisław, 1869-1907. Akropolis.
Freedman, Lew.
Brook, Peter.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Teatr Laboratorium (Wrocław, Poland)
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| Notes: | VHS.
The PBL production of Jerzy Grotowski.
Additional date on container: c1968; originally issued as a motion picture in 1971.
A filmed drama with commentary.
Performed in Polish, with introduction and voice over narration in English by Lewis Freedman.
Lewis Freedman, Peter Brook, members of the Polish Laboratory Theater.
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| Summary: | Presents a synthesis of the past and the present by dramatizing biblical and Homeric tales in a contemporary setting. The dramatic intensity is heightened in the Polish Laboratory Theater production which Grotowski sets in the Auschwitz (Oʹswȩcim) concentration camp instead of the Krakow Cathedral of the 1904 production. Preceded in the film by Lewis Freedman's introduction and Peter Brook's comments on the significance of Grotowski's setting.
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