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Molik, Zygmunt

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Zygmunt Molik (1930–2010) was for twenty-five years an actor of Jerzy Grotowski’s Teatr Laboratorium (Laboratory Theatre). He was a co-founder and leading actor in Grotowski’s company, appearing in all its productions. Particularly memorable are his roles as Jacob in Akropolis and Judas inApocalypsis cum figuris. He played the main role in forming the voice-training method initiated with Jerzy Grotowski in the period of productions, continued in the paratheatrical phase. The discovery and liberation of the creative energy and the search of the unity and connection between the body and the voice became for him the basis of an actor’s process. In 1964 he began teaching Acting Therapy workshops for actors, which in 1975 developed into the Acting Therapy Professional Therapy Laboratory and then into Body and Voice, an international project that continued until 2008. The Voice and Body: The Body Alphabet method and workshops focus on realising blocked voice, body and energy. Giuliano Campo

Image: Portrait by Francesco Galli, Wroclaw, 2008


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These sessions were initially organised by Laboratory Theatre members for fellow actors who were interested in the practice of overcoming difficulties with breathing, the voice, and lethargy.
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A documentation of a five-day workshop, with Zygmunt Molik leading a group of participants at the historical site of the Brzezinka farm, where most of Grotowski’s paratheatrical work took place.
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Jerzy Grotowski was one of the major theatre directors of the twentieth century. He extended what theatrical activity comprises by focussing on acting, space, and the actor–audience relationship.
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The voice – its use, production and health – is arguably the most vital aspect of the actor’s instrument. That the word ‘audience’ is used so commonly indicates the aural and oral signifiers involved.


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