I've just started reading "Avec Grotowski", a book by Romanian-French theatre researcher George Banu, where collects Peter Brook's words about Jerzy Grotowski. In the introduction of the book Banu quotes a short conversation with Grotowski, a really charming and clarifying sentences about one part of Grotowski's personal world:
" (...) je l'interrogeais sur son amitié bifrons avec Barba et Brook :
'Tu as deux amis. De quoi parles-tu avec Eugenio? Et avec Brook?
- Avec Eugenio je ne parle que du théâtre, avec Peter je ne parle que de la vie !' "
...and we can translate those words in this way:
" (...) I asked him about his bifrons friendship with Barba and with Brook :
'You have two friends. What do you talk about with Eugenio? and what about with Brook?
- With Eugenio I only speak about theatre, with Peter I only speak about life!' "
That demon of two heads (bifrons) puts every of its heads on each side of Grotowski, but the Polish director was never in the centre of anything, ¡he always was on the extreme!
Fascinating research for unveiling the secrets hiding behind the encounter of great men!
"Avec Grotowski" is without any doubt a book full of wisdom of life, wisdom of human relationships, and wisdom of theatre itself. I'm reading it with passion and curiosity. We'll see...
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