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Teatr Atelier was founded
in 1997 by a group of Cracow's actors (some of them were members
of the ensemble of the renowned Stary Teatr, Poland's National
Stage) who, in the course of the nineties, while working on
the contemporary repertoire, collaborated with numerous international
directors and stage designers.
The credo of our stage work can be summarized as: "small means,
intense work, rigorous discipline, and striving for absolute precision",
which is a quotation from Peter Brook's succinct characterisation of
the work of Merce Cunningham, Jerzy Grotowski and Samuel Beckett, the
three stage innovators who serve us as a model.
It was staging Samuel Beckett's work that has brought us together (and
was the starting point of our project). Beckett's name stands as a symbol
not only for a most intense creative urge and striving for unparalleled
purity of form, but also of personal modesty and moral integrity. He
is a European artist par excellence. |
