Jerzy Grotowski: Towards a Poor Theatre (1968–) [EN, ES, BR-PT, RO]

A classic work on theatre. Text by Jerzy Grotowski, interviews with him and other supplementary material presenting his method and training.

Preface by Peter Brook
Publisher Simon and Schuster, 1968
Expanded edition, edited by Eugenio Barba, Routledge, 2002
ISBN 0878301550, 9780878301553
262 pages

Towards a Poor Theatre (English, 1968/2002, 6 MB)
Hacia un teatro pobre (Spanish, trans. Margo Glantz, 1970/1992, via)
Em busca de um teatro pobre (Brazilian Portuguese, trans. Aldomar Conrado, 1976, 63 MB, via)
Spre un teatru sărac (Romanian, trans. George Banu and Mirella Nedelcu-Patureau, 1998, 90 MB, via)

Charles Chaplin: My Autobiography (1964)

“Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin’s father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of insanity, Chaplin embarked on a film-making career which won him success, as well as intense controversy. His autobiography was written almost entirely without reference to documentation – simply as a feat of memory by a 75 year old man. It is a vivid reconstruction of a poor London childhood, the music hall and then his prodigious life in the movies.”

First published by Simon and Schuster, 1964
Publisher Pocket Books, New York, 1966
560 pages

Review (F.W. Dupee, The New York Review of Books, 1964)

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