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March

7th March
Grotowski – night artist
Lecture by Georges Banu (Sorbonne III, Paris, France).



8th–13th March
Key Project
Tierno Bokar
Visit of Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, CICT (Paris, France)

8th, 9th (previews), 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th March
Tierno Bokar
Presentations of the performance based on the book by Amadou Hampate Ba, Vie et enseignement de Tierno Bokar – Le Sage de Bandiagara [The Life and Teaching of Tierno Bokar – the Sage of Bandiagara]. Directed by Peter Brook.

9th March
Meeting with Peter Brook

11th–13th March
Workshops by Bruce Myers and Toshi Tsushitori. Work sessions led by long-standing collaborators of Peter Brook: the actor Bruce Myers (England) and the musician Toshi Tsushitori (Japan).



16th March
On becoming man – C.G. Jung’s conception of the Self
The meetings are part of the depth psychology seminar, conducted by Andrzej Kuzmicki from the Society for the Study of Psychoanalysis). Lecture: The Self and the symbols of alchemic creation, complemented by presentation of video materials.



16th–17th March
Conference Theatre – Culture – Liturgy
Conference organised by the Department of Polish Studies and the Department of Theology of the University of Opole.
Lectures by:

16th March
Marek Pyc (UAM, Poznan): Dramatic vision of the Christology of Hans Urs von Balthasar;
Michal Czajkowski (UKSW, Warsaw): Common points in Christian and Judaic Liturgies; Jan Janicki (PAT, Cracow): Influences of the classical Greek theatre on the Liturgy; Janusz Czerski (UO, Opole): The mystagogic character of Byzantine Liturgy; Helmut Jan Sobeczko (UO, Opole): Dramatisations and performance in medieval liturgy in the region of Silesia; Rudolf Pierskala (UO, Opole): Ars celebrandi in liturgical congregation; Miroslaw Kocur (UW, Wroclaw): The Actor in Christian theatre: Confessions of St. Augustine; Magdalena Golaczynska (UW, Wroclaw): Religious motifs in performances of contemporary alternative theatre; Agnieszka Wojtowicz (UO, Opole): Liturgical elements in the Opole performances of Jerzy Grotowski; Jaroslaw Fret (Grotowski Centre): Art as Vehicle – Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards; Marek Zybura (UW, Wroclaw): Literary studies versus theology; Czeslawa Mykita-Glensk (UO, Opole): Compositional functions of biblical motifs in the horror novel Ritual, by Graham Masterton; Adrian Glen (UO, Opole): Instead of religion. Poetic mythology and godless ‘liturgy’ in the late works of Miron Bialoszewski; Zbigniew Wladyslaw Solski (UO, Opole): Image of the Holy Mass in Dead and Buried by Tadeusz Rozewicz; Erwin Mateja (UO, Opole): A theatre performance about St. Jacek Odrowaz; Stanislaw Rabiej (UO, Opole): Integrative role of culture; Marcin Worbst (UO, Opole): Liturgy as a phenomenon of culture according to Romano Guardini; Grzegorz Kubski (UZ, Zielona Gora): Rhetorical position of the Gospels in the Catholic Great Friday Liturgy; Teresa Smolinska (UO, Opole): Theatrical aspects of the carols tradition; Daniel Kalinowski (PAP, Slupsk): Buddhist stories. Style and values; Krzysztof Bilinski (UW, Wroclaw): Internet churches – the cyber-sacrum of the 21st century; Slawomir Pawinski (UO, Opole): Media modifications of evangelisation; Marek Lis (UO, Opole): A Passion film: experience of the mystery; Waldemar Frac (UO, Opole): Evil in film as a phenomenon of contemporary culture; Anna Ledwina (UO, Opole): Total Eclipse by Agnieszka Holland vs. Experience of the Absolute of The Cursed Poets – Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud; Leszek Polony (AM, Cracow): Christian symbols in Missa pro pace by Wojciech Kilar; Remigiusz Pospiech (UO, Opole): Teatrum musicum in baroque liturgy; Walentyna Wegrzyn-Klisowska (AMKL, Wroclaw): Musical rhetoric in the laments of the Wroclaw cantor Johann Georg Clement; Ryszard Klisowski (AMKL, Wroclaw): The role of the new gestics in music in creating meta-meaning; Tadeusz Sawa-Boryslawski (PWr. Wroclaw): Contemporary Wroclaw church architecture; Byzantine Liturgy of St. John Chryzostom in Greek, celebrated by Mitrat Janusz Czerski, liturgical singing performed by the students’ schola of the Department of Theology of the University of Opole.

17th March
Lech Sokol (ISPAN, Warsaw): God and religion in Henrik Ibsen’s Brand; Ewa Wachocka (US, Katowice): Sin and redemption in The Family Reunion by T.S. Eliot; Piotr Kowalski (UO, Opole): Sublimity gone trivial – love and ‘unusual circumstances’; Zofia Zarebianka (UJ, Cracow): Literature as liturgy; Michal Maslowski (Sorbonne, Paris): The relational space in the liturgy of marriage; Jan Ciechowicz (UG, Gdansk): Polish funeral – in liturgy and in theatre. The Grotowski Centre.



17th March – 17th April
Exhibition Monument to Grotowski in Opole. Idea – realisation – documentation
Project and realisation: Marian Molenda.

17th March
  • Opening of the exhibition
  • Promotion of the book by Agnieszka Wojtowicz (University of Opole) From Orpheus to The Study of Hamlet. Theatre of 13 Rows in Opole in 1959–1964 (Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego 2005). Conducted by Janusz Degler



19th–23rd March
Voice and Body
Workshop led by Zygmunt Molik.



24th March
Meeting: Theatre in the City
Closed work demonstration as part of Ben Spatz’s (USA) project 'Theatre in the City' – presentation of exercises, etudes and documentary materials.