SOURCE: Reznikov, Hanon. “Jerzy Grotowski, 1933–1999.” Theater 29, no. 2 (1999): 8.

In the following obituary tribute to Jerzy Grotowski, Reznikov describes the differences between Jerzy Grotowski's Poor Theatre and The Living Theatre.

After the Living Theater went into exile in Europe in the mid-1960s, its path began to cross with Grotowski's Polish Laboratory Theater. At the time, both groups were considered, each in its distinct way, to be at the cutting edge of “experimental” theater. The differences could not have been more apparent. The Grotowski people were not particularly interested in the audience; for the Living Theater the audience was everything. People inside and outside the two groups believed that these differences simply reflected their respective environments. Communist Poland, which had made a version of revolutionary ideology the state religion, inspired a theater that turned away from the social lie in order to discover an inner truth. On the other hand...