 Director of the Grotowski Institute, and a founder and leader of Theatre ZAR. Beginning in 1999, he organised several expeditions to the Caucasus and to the Near and Middle East in order to investigate the old Christian churches (Georgian, Armenian, Syrian) and the Mandeans – the last living, ancient Gnostic group surviving in Iran. One part of this project is Theatre ZAR’s performance, The Gospels of Childhood, which has been presented in Poland, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary, the United Kingdom and the United States. Fret was co-editor of two special issues of Pamietnik Teatralny dedicated to Jerzy Grotowski (Warsaw, 2000–2001). He leads the Grotowski Institute with Grzegorz Ziolkowski, where they organise numerous events – conferences, theatre and music presentations, exhibitions, work sessions, lectures and meetings – that correspond to the challenges laid down by Jerzy Grotowski’s artistic practice.
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