Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski

List of contents

Introduction: Grotowski and interdisciplinary engagements

1 Rendering Grotowski’s spirituality: perspectives from performance and theatre studies

Part One: Foucault and Grotowski’s Theatre of Productions phase

2 Foucault, religion and Grotowski

3 A Foucaultian imperative in Grotowski’s theatre

Part Two: The New Age, the body and Grotowski

4 Critical thinking about the New Age

5 Grotowski, embodiment and the New Age

6 Yoga, shamanism and ritual in Grotowski’s work

7 Trance, channeling and the ancestors in Grotowski’s theatre

8 Grotowski and Gurdjieff: embodied resemblances

9 Grotowski as Guru: an interdisciplinary challenge

Conclusion

About the author

Catharine Christof holds an MA(Hons) in The Study of Mysticism and Religious Experience and a PhD in Religion, both from the University of Kent, UK. She has a BA and an MFA in Theatre Arts and is currently Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts at Loyola Marymount University, USA.

Summary

This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious or spiritual nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski’s work.The central argument is that through an embodied, materialist approach to religion, and through a critical reading of the concepts of th

Product details

• Authors: Catharine Christof, Catharine (Loyola Marymount University Christof, Christof Catharine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367886387
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88638-7
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; RELIGION / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, ART / Performance, Religion: general, Theatre Studies, Performance Art, Religion and beliefs