Illustrations . . vii
Preface . . xi
Acknowledgements . . xvii
DVD Acknowledgements . . xviii

1 First Day: Acting Therapy - The Voice and the Life - The beginnings . . 1
2 Second Day: Techniques - 'Sing your Life'- Teachers and masters - Grotowski and the company . . 11
3 Third Day: Paratheatre — The Organic Life and the Process — Ryszard Cieślak . . 29
4 Fourth Day: Meeting with the unknown — Montage . . 38
5 Fifth Day: The 'Body Alphabet' . . 35
6 Images of the 'Body Alphabet' . . 66
7 Sixth Day: The text - Organic and cultural differences - Voice as a vehicle . . 93
8 Seventh Day: The attention - Necessity, Organic Process, nostalgia . . 109
9 Eighth Day: The productions — Meeting Grotowski - The Teatr Laboratorium . . 121
10 Ninth Day: Colleagues and collaborators . . 146

Appendix: Grotowski, Theatre and Beyond From Stanislavski to Grotowski - The Theatre of Productions (1959-69) - Paratheatre (1970-78) - Theatre of Sources (1979-82) and after . . 157

Photographs . . 167
Notes . . 188