The Inner Man and his Deed: Jerzy Grotowski and the legacy of Adam Mickiewicz and polish romanticism

This article locates Grotowski in a concrete cultural milieu of Polish Romanticism and of the lifework of the Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz. The bulk of my focus goes towards the notion of the deed and the act of doing that dematerialises the work of art turning it into an inner process – all features of Mickiewicz’s and Grotowski’s projects.