Incarnation and Belief in Grotowski’s 'Holy Theater'

• In Event: Staging Religion Across the Twentieth Century: Orthodox, Catholic, and Jewish Scenes

Abstract

Jerzy Grotowski’s concept of the holy actor or holy theater appears on the surface to present a vague and nondenominational sense of spirituality. But read against Catholic theology of incarnation, we can understand the powerful unity of both the divine and the material in the holy actor. This talk will show what the divine-material unity implies for our belief in the reality or truth of the theatrical performance.

Author

• Alisa Ballard Lin, Ohio State U