Akropolis

play by Grotowski

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costume design

  • interior of a Kabuki theater
    In stagecraft: Costume of the 20th century and beyond

    …Grotowski, conceived his production of Akropolis at the Polish Laboratory Theatre in 1962 as a poetic paraphrase of an extermination camp. There is no hero—and no individuality—among the characters. The costumes were bags full of holes covering naked bodies, and the holes were lined with material suggesting torn flesh; wooden…

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