After Grotowski: The Polish (and Trans-European) Theater Scene and Today’s Cultural Aesthetics
Friday 8/30/24, at 5:00pm ET
Community Gathering on Zoom - register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by buying a ticket, making a donation or joining as a member.
In the room: Norbert Rakowski, writer and director, CEO and artistic director of the JK Opole Theatre, and vice-president of the European Theater Convention, which brings together artists from all over Europe. We will focus on the theater scene in Poland and how opportunities compare to what we have in NY and other US communities, as well as Rakowski's current term in Opole, once the home of legendary Jerzy Grotowski. ETC is the largest network of publicly-funded theatres in Europe, with 63 members in 31 countries, from Scandinavia to Kosovo, and Portugal to Tbilisi, Georgia. Learn about the wide range of activities ETC supports to create new theatre, support and develop people working in theatre, and fight for the European theater sector in a political context. We'll consider the concept of publicly funded theater in Europe and how that model contrasts with what we have here in the US.
