(1933-)
Polish theater director. His ascetic theoery of performance in Towards a Poor Theatre 1968 has had a great influence on experimental theater in the US and Europe. His most famous productions were Akropolis 1962, The Constant Prince 1965, and Apocalypsis cum Figuris 1969, which he toured widely.
He directed in Opole (from 1959) and then in Wroclaw (from 1965); his company, originally the Theatre of the Thirteen Rows, was renamed the Laboratory Theatre 1962.