Abstract Adele Cacciagrano, Guerrieri-Grotowski
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Abstract Adele Cacciagrano, Guerrieri-Grotowski
AAR Anno II, numero 3 – Maggio 2012 Abstract Adele Cacciagrano, Guerrieri-Grotowski: appunti di un incontro mancato. In the early seventies Grotowski decided to abandon the theatre. In the same years, the Italian critic and intellectual Gerardo Guerrieri, after a career devoted to writing essays, translations, dramatic texts and directing the Teatro Club, decided to go back to writing reviews for the newspaper Il Giorno. Two very different paths. A coming-out from the theatre versus a going-back. Yet, at the heart of the two choices there is the same idea of theatre as a space for a true human encounter. This essay seeks to shed light, briefly, in a sort of travel in time, on the moments when misunderstandings, tangential events, breaks and estrangement sealed the failed encounter between Guerrieri and Grotowski: two men who, in spite of their antithetical directions they chose, came from similar backgrounds and shared a similar vision of the future of the theatre.